Semiotics: Culture in Context

This workshop seeks to advance research based on a semiotic framework. Presentations will come from a variety of fields including but not limited to linguistics, psychology, sociology, political science, literary theory, and anthropology. By not limiting the topic of research by area, period or discipline, the workshop encourages discussion to center on how to study social and cultural phenomena as embedded in a meaningful context. By building on many seminal studies that have used semiotic approaches, the goal of the workshop is to continue to develop the rigorous analytic framework that provides the method for clearly defining linkages between the object of analysis and its context.

Workshop Schedule

The workshop meets alternate Thursdays from 4:30-6:00 PM
(With some exceptions, please see calendar below for specific locations)

To download upcoming papers, please click on the linked titles.

For earlier workshop schedules with downloadable papers, see archives.

If you encounter problems with this website, please contact Gabe Tusinski at tusinski@uchicago.edu or Adam Sargent at sargenta@uchicago.edu.

Spring 2009

Thursday, April 9th, Haskell 101
Alejandro Paz
Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago
Voicing the Subaltern: Latinos in the Israeli Public Eye
Discussant:Jay Sosa, Anthropology

Thursday, April 16th, Haskell 101
Anne Lorimer
Professor of Anthropology
Embodied Brains: Why Science Studies needs the Anthropology of Museums
Discussant: Mary Leighton, Anthropology

Thursday, April 23rd, Haskell 101
Matthew Hull
Professor ofAnthropology, University of Michigan
Maps and Mosques: Ecumenical Planning and Sectarian Conflict in Islamabad
Discussant: Trevor Goldsmith, Anthropology, University of Chicago

Thursday, May 7th, Haskell 101
Paul Manning
Professor ofAnthropology, Trent University
The Hotel/Refugee Camp Iveria: Symptom, Monster, Fetish, Home
Discussant: TBA

Thursday, May 21st, Haskell 101
Nicholas Harkness
Anthropology, University of Chicago
Homecoming Recitals and the Inauguration of Public Personhood (Seoul, South Korea)
Discussant: TBA

Thursday, June 4th, Haskell 101
Gretchen Pfeil
Anthropology, University of Chicago
TBA
Discussant: TBA

Semiotics Links

• The Peirce Edition Project (on-line texts available)


• Semiotics at Indiana University


• Charles S Peirce Studies


• Voice of the Shuttle Home Page (list of links in humanities, including anthropology and linguistics; many on-line papers and other resources)


• Sites of Significance for Semiotics (lists of links to a wide variety of semiotically-linked webpages)

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Contact Us

Student Coordinators:
Adam Sargent (sargenta@uchicago.edu)
Gabe Tusinski (tusinski@uchicago.edu)

Faculty Sponsors:
Susan Gal
John Lucy
Michael Silverstein

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