The 18th Annual Michicagoan Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology
May 6-7, 2016
3rd Floor Theater, Ida Noyes Hall
University of Chicago
Friday May 6th
9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:30 Opening Remarks
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Panel I: Mobilities and Transnationalisms (9:45 – 11:15) |
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| 9:45 | A Partner for Peace
Yaqub Hilal |
| 10:00 | Mediating Infrastructures: Security and Biometric Belonging in Urban Pakistan
Zehra Hashimi |
| 10:15 | On the (An)Aesthetics of Translation: Alienation and Techno-linguisic dependency in Sino-African Mass-Migrancies
Jay Schutte |
| 10:30 | Lei Feng wouldn’t drive an Audi
Britta Ingebretson |
| 10:45 | Discussant Kristina Wirtz (and audience discussion) |
| 11:15 | Break (11:15-11:30) |
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Panel II: Multimedia and Meta-media (11:30 – 1:00) |
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| 11:30 | Echo in the archive: Tanya Tagaq’s Nanook of the North
Robyn Taylor-Neu |
| 11:45 | “You are the problem who is problematizing it”: A frame analysis of Korean Buddhist spontaneous question-answer sessions on YouTube
Yeon-ju Bae |
| 12:00 | Musical Lyrics and Youtube Commentary on Kurdish Identity Politics
Sevda Arslan |
| 12:15 | Who’s ‘More Musical’?: Underscoring Distinction in Ex-YU Hip Hop DJing
Owen Kohl |
| 12:30 | Discussant Ilana Gershon (and audience discussion) |
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1:00pm |
Lunch (1:00 – 2:00) |
| Panel III: Modeling Identities Multimodally (2:00 – 3:30) | |
| 2:00 | The Problem and Appeal of Authenticity in Mediatized Maya Discourse
Chris Bloechl |
| 2:15 | Technologies of the Hand: Bets, Being a Man, and “Half-Handshakes” in Laos
Chip Zuckerman |
| 2:30 | Mediatization and the Assemblage of Political Agents in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict
Patrick Lewis |
| 2:45 | The Role of Trolling in Shaping Cultural Discourse and Identity: a case study of an anonymous internet message board
Marc Lehman |
| 3:00 | Discussant: Alaina Lemon (and audience discussion) |
| 3:30 | Break (3:30-3:45) |
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Panel IV: Institutions of Mediation (3:45 – 5:15) |
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| 3:45 | Seeing the Forest for the Trees: How a Village Council Debates Land Use in a Protected Rainforest
Jessica Pouchet |
| 4:00 | Biographies of “Marginal Men”
Perry Wong |
| 4:15 | Language as semiotic technology at the International Atomic Energy Agency Anna Weichselbraun |
| 4:30 | The Art of Knowing: Depersonalized Voices and Technologies of Mediation in Turkey’s Kurdistan
Özge Korkmaz |
| 4:45 | Discussant: Matthew Hull (and audience discussion) |
| 5:15 | Break (5:15 – 5:30) |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Keynote Address: A Short History of Vowels
John Durham Peters |
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7:30 |
Student Dinner |
Saturday May 7th
| 9:00am | Breakfast |
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Panel V: Framing Absence, Personifying Presence (10:00 – 11:30) |
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| 10:00 | Speaking in Ashes: Embodied Space in Divination and Grammar
Joshua Shapero |
| 10:15 | Coded Engagements: Teasing Siri with ‘Nandeyanen’
Bill Feeney |
| 10:30 | The Importance of a Frame
Meghanne Barker |
| 10:45 | The Social Media Life of a Deceased Tibetan Poet: Blue Lake, Identity Formations, and WeChat
Huatse Gyal |
| 11:00 | Discussant: Chris Ball (and audience discussion) |
| 11:30 | Break (11:30 – 11:45) |
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Panel VI: Translating Medical Assemblages (11:45 – 1:15) |
| 11:45 | From Tantra to Textbook: Textual Transformations of Tibetan Medicine
Todd P. Marek |
| 12:00 | Trauma as Sign: Temporality and Narrative in “Post-Traumatic Growth”
Livia Garofalo |
| 12:15 | Sieving Uncertainty
Colin Halverson |
| 12:30 | Billable Language and Artifactual Technologies of Social Work
Matilda Stubbs |
| 12:45 | Discussant: Summerson Carr (and audience discussion) |
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1:15pm |
Lunch (1:15 – 2:30) |
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Panel VII: Reforming the Political, Revealing the Religious (2:30 – 4:00) |
| 2:30 | Chronotopes of “We-Ness”: Legacies of an Authoritarian Past and Disappointments with Democracy in the 2014 Indonesian Presidential Campaigns
Fadi Hakim |
| 2:45 | Confessional discourse and the language of the liberation-oppression paradigm in the first decade of the P.R.C.
Alice Yeh |
| 3:00 | Figuration as Semiotic Technology at the Islamic Center of America
Amanda Kemble |
| 3:15 | Reading Prophecies, Taming Demons: Buddhism in Sertar, 1950-1987
Jin Li |
| 3:30 | Discussant: Justin Richland (and audience discussion) |
| 4:00 | Break (4:00 – 4:15) |
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Panel VIII: Quantification and Qualification (4:15 – 5:30) |
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| 4:15 | Technologies of Visualization, Technologies of Scale: Maps, National Crisis, and the Legitimacy of Law in Singapore Urban Planning
Josh Babcock |
| 4:30 | Towards a Semiotics of Units: The Rhemacity, Dicensity and Argumencity in the Evolution of Technological Language
Yukun Zeng |
| 4:45 | Dangerous evaluations: 360-degree feedback in South Korea
Michael Prentice |
| 5:00 | Discussant: Michael Lempert (and audience discussion) |
| 6:00 | Dinner and reception |