Politics, Communication, Society

The Politics, Communication, Society workshop ties together diverse strands of research on the political aspects and social roles of communicative practices. With faculty sponsors and student coordinators drawn from several disciplines in the social sciences, the workshop provides participants with an opportunity to approach the issue of communication from a variety of perspectives and with a variety of focal points. Our conversation over the last few years has been a wide-ranging exploration of topics like the social efficacy of political rhetoric and symbolism, the role of language in the construction of reality, the transformation of concepts through the media, and the relations between sociohistorical processes and systems of signification.


Autumn 2009


October 7th -
Please note that this week's session will take place at Haskell 101
 Yazan Doughan (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
"Finding Our Voice: Language Ideologies and Jordanian National Imaginaries"
Discussant: Elise Kramer (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

October 21st
- Please note that this week's session will take place at Haskell 101
Jonathan Larson (Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, University of Iowa)
"Sentimental Kritika: Hazardous Dialectics and Deictics of Accountability in Socialist Secular Criticism"
Discussant: Nicholas Harkness (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

November 4th
Nicholas Harkness (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
"Voicing an Advanced Korea"
Discussant: Shunsuke Nozawa (Anthropology, University of Chicago)


November 18th
Nusrat Chowdhury (Anthropology,  University of Chicago)
"Morality of Money, Politics of Value: Notes on ‘resistance’ from contemporary Bangladesh"

Discussant: Adam Sargent (Anthropology, University of Chicago)


December 2nd
Jean Comaroff (Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago)

"Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony"




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Faculty Sponsors

Susan Gal (s-gal@uchicago.edu)

Andreas Glaeser (aglaeser@uchicago.edu)
Michael Silverstein (m-silverstein@uchicago.edu)
Lisa Wedeen (l-wedeen@uchicago.edu)

 

Student Coordinators

      Monica Lee (monicalee@uchicago.edu)
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