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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"
To view our schedule archive,
please click here.
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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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