The Semiotics Workshop is pleased to announce our schedule for Spring Quarter 2011:
April 7th: Constantine V. Nakassis
Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“Brand Desires, Anxieties, Ignorances: Young Men’s Peer Groups and the
Aesthetics of Brandedness in Tamil Nadu, India”
Discussant: Sean Dowdy
April 21st: Greg Matoesian
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Gesture’s Community: Social Organization in Multimodal Conduct”
Discussant: Kaya Williams
April 26th: Patrick Eisenlohr
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Cultural Anthropology
Utrecht University
Title: “Media authenticity and authority in Mauritius: On the mediality of language in religion”
Haskell Hall Mezz 102
Discussant: Elayne Oliphant
(Wednesday) May 11th: Paul Manning
Associate Professor
Trent University
“The Soviet Uncola”
Presented by The Anthropology of Europe Workshop, CEREES (The University of
Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies), and the
Semiotics: Culture in Context Workshop.
May 12th: Anna Weichselbraun
PhD Student
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“Molecular Gastronomy or Modernist Cuisine: The Semiotic Mediation of Expertise
in the Innovative Restaurant”
Discussant: Jolie Nahigian
May 26th: Stephen Kingsley Scott
Postdoctoral Instructor
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“‘Hey, comadre!’: Kinship tropes, cultural intimacies, and the mediation of
‘message’ in a Bolivian health network”
Discussant: Yaqub Hilal
June 9th: Luke Fleming
Instructor, Anthropology
Eckerd College
“Senseless Speech Acts: Unifying Malinowskian and Austinian Performativity”
Discussant: Britta Ingebretson
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).
The workshop meets from 4:30 to 6:00 in Haskell 101, unless otherwise noted.
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.