The Semiotics: Culture in Context Workshop is happy to announce our Autumn quarter schedule:

Thursday, October 14th:  Michael Silverstein
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology and in the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

“Culture and History in a Kiksht hapax legomenon:  The ethnohistorical contextualization of linguistic form”

Discussant: James Slotta

Thursday, October 28th: Betsey Brada
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago

“An economy of revelation: Learning to disclose in the Superlative Clinic.”

Discussant: Adam Sargent

Thursday, December 2nd: Shunsuke Nozawa
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago

“Nobodies’ Histories, ‘Everybody’s Writing,’ communicating with somebody”

Discussant: Xiao-Bo Yuan

Thursday, December 9th: Paul Kockelman
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University

“A Mayan Ontology of Poultry: Selfhood, Affect, and Animals”

Discussant: Chris Bloechl

All meetings are from 4:30 to 6:00 in Haskell 101.

The workshop welcomes participants from any discipline with an interest in engaging a semiotic framework for analysis.  Papers are available by email request from our graduate student coordinators, Amy McLachlan (amclachlan@uchicago.edu) and Chris Bloechl (cbloechl@uchicago.edu).

If you believe you may need special assistance in attending the workshop or you have other questions or concerns, please contact the graduate student coordinators.