The Semiotics Workshop is pleased to announce our Autumn Quarter theme:
“Semiotic Creativity/Expertise”
(Ethno)metapragmatics allow us to enshrine (meta)semiotic forms in institutions and hierarchies. The papers presented this quarter will address the expertise created by such canonicalization and the modalities of creativity that emerge as a result of the tensions inherent to such restriction.
Schedule:
October 11: “Speaking for the Voiceless: Metaphors of Power and Agency in American Political Discourse”
Elise Kramer
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Averill Leslie
October 25: “Representations of Meaning by ‘Amr b. Bahr al-Jahiz”
David Larsen
Master Teacher, Liberal Studies
New York University
Discussant: Yaqub Hilal
November 8: “‘We are not Labor’: The Hazards of Training in the Indian Construction Sector”
Adam Sargent
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Julia Kowalski
November 29: “The transitivity and intransitivity of ‘la pensée’ in a radical French philosophy department”
Eli Thorkelson
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Jan Schutte