The Semiotics Workshop

“Coordinating Continuities: Language and Sameness Across Time and Space”
The Sixteenth University of Michigan – University of Chicago Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology
To be held at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science, W301, 929 East 57th Street, University of Chicago, May 2nd and 3rd, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Penelope Eckert, Linguistics & Anthropology, Stanford University
 The theme for this year’s Michicagoan “Coordinating Continuities,” draws attention to how contexts with discrete spatial and temporal orders are brought into alignment. By attending to the synchronization of such chronotopic frames, we hope to bring into focus the work done in producing coherent continuities – of ‘a’ language, nation, history, narrative, and so forth – out of what might otherwise be distinct and distant temporal, spatial, and ontological orders. We ask not only what present ties to past, future, and remote contexts are brought into being, but how coherence is created, maintained, and systematized across scales and not withstanding potentially conflicting ideological frameworks.
Conference Schedule
Friday, May 2nd
12:00pm                Registration and Lunch
1:00pm                  Panel 1: (Re)placing and (Re)identifying
2:45pm                  Panel 2: Marginality and the Construction of Memory
5:00pm                  Refreshment Break
5:30pm                  Keynote Address: Penelope Eckert, Stanford University
6:30pm                  Student Dinner at Haskell Hall, 1126 East 59th Street
Saturday, May 3rd
9:00am                  Breakfast
10:00am                Panel 3: Text and Representation
12:00pm                Lunch
1:00pm                  Panel 4: Modes of Indexicality
3:00pm                  Refreshment Break
3:30pm                  Panel 5: Coordinating the Nation-State
5:30pm                  Dinner
6:30pm                  Party at Haskell Hall, 1126 East 59th Street
Funded by The Student Government, The Lichtstern Fund, The Humanities Division, The Department of Linguistics, The Student Catering Fund, and The Center for the Study of Communication and Society