Archives of Semiotics: Culture in Context Workshop

Winter 2008

Autumn 2007

Spring 2007

Winter 2007

Autumn 2006

Spring 2006

Winter 2006

Autumn 2005

Spring 2005

Winter 2005

Autumn 2004

Autumn 2003

Spring 2002

Winter 2002

Spring 2001

Winter 2001

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Winter 2008


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Nicholas Dempsey

University of Chicago, Sociology
"Metaphors We Play By: Conceptual Blends in Musical Practice "
January 17, 2007
 

Trevor Goldsmith

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Neighbors on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown!: public space, publicity, and the growth of urban quality movements in Barcelona."
January 31, 2008
 

Bonnie Urciuoli

Professor, Anthropology, Hamilton College
" 'Bringing Diversity to the campus': The work of college multicultural organizations and the semiotics thereof "
February 14, 2008
 

Jonathan Rosa

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Spanglish-Only: Language Ideologies and the Fashioning of EthnoRacial Difference in a U.S. High School "
February 28, 2008
 

Erin Debenport

Linguistics, University of Chicago
Language Use at Sandia Pueblo: Ideologies, Revitalization and Institutionalization
March 11, 2008
 

Autumn 2007


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Elise Berman

University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
"'It's a Heart-Biter': K'iche' Maya Children as Buffers of Malicious Adult-Adult Interactions"
October 4, 2007
 

Eli Thorkelson

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Knowledge as ideology: Lycee philosophy classes and the category of the intellectual"
October 18, 2007
 

HIlary Parsons Dick

Postdoctoral Instructor, Anthropology & Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
"Chronotopes of Movement in Mexican Migrant Discourse"
November 1, 2007
 

Sean T. Mitchell

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Sovereignty, Sabotage and the Specters of the State: The Brazilian Space Program After 'Order and Progress'"
November 15, 2007
 

Kristina Wirtz

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Western Michigan University
"Making sense of unintelligible messages in divine communication"
December 6, 2007
 

Spring 2007


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Courtney Handman

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Models of Translation: The New Testament, the Old Testament, and Gods 'Blessings' to the Ancestors in Waria Valley Christian Denominationalism"
April 5, 2007
 

Nicholas Harkness

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"'Technique' as Analytic: The Semiotics of Specialization in Western Classical Singing"
April 19, 2007
 

Elina Hartikainen

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"African Child Spirits in Brazil: Negotiating Brazilian Constellations of Africanness through Candomble Spirit Speech"
May 3, 2007
 

Veena Das

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor & Department Chair, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
"On the Modalities of the Domestic"
May 17, 2007
 

Urmila Nair

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"When the Sun's Rays Are as Shadows: Oracular Communications and Ethno-Politics in Tibetan Exile"
May 22, 2007
 

Hussein Agrama

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
"The Legalization of Hisba in the Case of Nasr Abu Zayd"
May 31, 2007
 

Winter 2007


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Andy Graan

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"On the Currency of Current Events: Scandals, Politics, and the News Media in Macedonia"
January 18, 2007
 

William Mazzarella

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
"'Cannibals Enjoy Comedies': Apprehending the Cinema in Late Colonial India"
February 1, 2007
 

Laurence Ralph

Anthropology, University of Chicago
"The Shifting Indexical Quality of Gangsta Rap"
February 15, 2007
 

Alejandro Paz

Anthropology/Linguistics, University of Chicago
"Entextualizing Chisme: Small Media and the Public Life of Latinos in Israel"
March 1, 2007
 

Martin Stokes

Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
"Beloved Istanbul: Three Views of the City"
December 7, 2007
 

Autumn 2006


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Chris Ball

University of Chicago, Anthropology/Lingjistics
"Huluki: (In)alienability and ethnolinguistic differentiation in the Upper Xingu"
October 5, 2006
 

Abigail Rosenthal

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Sign Here: Building a Town for the Deaf"
October 19, 2006
 

Ruth Wodak

Professor in Discourse Studies, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
"Discourses in European Union Organizations: Aspects of Access, Participation and Exclusion"
November 7, 2006 (Joint Session with Anthropology of Europe Workshop)
 

Megan Clark

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
"Making Kurdish Visible: Orthography, Emblematicity and Linguistic Disobedience"
November 30, 2006 (Joint Session with Middle East History and Theory Workshop)
 

Martin Stokes

Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
"Beloved Istanbul: Three Views of the City"
December 7, 2006
 

Spring 2006


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Kesha Fikes

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Conditions of Inclusion: The Identity Politics of Clandestine Street Sales in Lisbon"
April 6, 2006
 

Erik Levin

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Your Mom is So Unbalanced that She Can't Hear the Dirt on Her Own Money: Embodied Experience and Ritual Insults of the Anlo-Ewe Haló"
April 27, 2006
 

Marina Peterson

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Patrolling the Plaza: Privatized Public Space and the Neoliberal State in Downtown Los Angeles"
May 4, 2006
 

Tom Boellstorff

niversity of California, Irvine, Anthropology
"Homo Cyber: The Ethnography of Virtual Worlds"
May 19, 2006
 

Deva Woodly

University of Chicago, Political Science
"Three Inadequate Approaches to Theorizing the Diffusion of Political Ideas from the Rabble to the White House"
June 1, 2006
 

Winter 2006


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Alison Winter

University of Chicago, History
"Recordings in the brain: Fragments for an archaeology of the memory wars"
January 26, 2006
 

Aaron Ansell

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"‘But the wind will turn against us’: a study of community-driven development in Northeast Brazil"
February 9, 2006
 

Lily Chumley

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Biographical Construction and the (Artistic) Individual"
February 23, 2006
 

Abigail Rosenthal

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Writing about Deafness: Transcription as Analysis and Politics"
March 9, 2006
 

Autumn 2005


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Tom Guthrie

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Recognizing Heritage"
October 6, 2005
 

Daniel Brauner

Pritzker School of Medicine
"How a model based on linguistic theory can improve the assessment of decision-making capacity for persons with dementia"
October 20, 2005
 

Kenneth McGill

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"The 'Street Newspaper' in Berlin and Chicago: Interaction, Publicity, Institution"
November 3, 2005
 

Joe Masco

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Atomic Cinema: Public Pedagogy and the Semiotics of Nuclear Fear"
November 17, 2005
 

Sarah Jain

Stanford University, Cultural and Social Anthropology
"Luxury Identity: Speed and Value in the City"
December 8, 2005
 

Spring 2005


Presentation
Date and Time
Downloads and Notes

Gregory Matoesian

University of Illinois at Chicago, Criminal Justice
"Sociological ambivalence in expert testimony: Discursive conflict in the constitution of legal identity"
March 27, 2005
 

Lauren Keeler

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Linguistic reconstruction and the construction of dialect difference in Nationalist-era Chinese lingusitics"
April 21, 2005
 

Elizabeth Mertz

American Bar Association, Chicago
"Legal 'facts' and the meta-language of U.S. law school education"
April 28, 2005
 

Lydia Liu

University of Michicago, Comparative Literature
"Ideographic imagination: how alphabetic writing became post-phonetic"
May 5, 2005
 

Anya Bernstein

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Speaking in the spaces of the state"
May 12, 2005
 

Winter 2005


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

Hannah Woodroofe

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Patterns of carnage: cosmetic interventions and technological violence in early twentieth century medicine in the United States"
January 20, 2005
 

Scott Kiesling

University of Pittsburgh, Linguistics
"Homosocial desire in men's talk: balancing and recreating cultural discourses of masculinity"
February 3, 2005
 

Laura Miller

Loyola University, Anthropology
"Junk writing and tampered inscription: expressive art in Japanese girls' culture"
February 17, 2005
 

Elizabeth Povinelli

Columbia University, Anthropology
"Rotten Worlds: Intimacy, Carnality, Genealogy"
March 3, 2005
 

Anya Bernstein

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Speaking in the spaces of the state"
May 12, 2005
 

Autumn 2004


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

Alexander Dale Mawyer

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Not So 'Great' Old Words: Mangarevan Discourse and the Everyday"
October 14, 2004
 

Lori Allen

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Witnessing the Shaheed: Gory Bodies and Humans in Palestine"
October 28, 2004
 

Robert E. Moore

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Memor(ial)izing words: ways of writing and the politics of access to "endangered languages"
November 11, 2004
 

Claudio Lomnitz

New School of Social Research, Anthropology and Historical Studies
"Modern and macabre: the explosion of death imagery in the public sphere (1790-1880)"
December 2, 2004
 

Autumn 2003


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

Kwai Hang Ng

University of Chicago, Sociology
"Context and Contextualization in Hong Kong's Bilingual Common Law System"
October 9, 2003
 

Erik Lee Skjoen

University of Chicago, Linguistics and Anthropology
"The Regional Dynamics of Ethnolinguistic Identity: Space, Speech, and Spirits among Mozambique's Maritime Muslims"
October 23, 2003
 

Rosa Rodriguez

University of Chicago, Linguistics
"On a Role: Rural Mayan Politics and Identity after the Peace Accord "
November 5, 2003
Dowload paper

Dr. Webb Keane

University of Michigan, Anthropology
"The Mission and Its Religion as Semiotic Problem"
November 18, 2003
 

Spring 2002


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

Alex Golub

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Darcyscapes"
April 4, 2002
Dowload paper

Dr. Flagg Miller

University of Chicago, Franke Institute
"Circulatory Words: An Aesthetics of Difference in Vernacular Poetry"
April 18, 2002
Dowload paper

Prof. Adrian Johns

University of Chicago, History
"The Times of the Signs: History, agency and the nature of print in the early nineteenth century "
May 16, 2002
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Adi Hastings

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Signifying Sanskrit in Hindu Revivalist and Nationalist Discourse"
June 5, 2002
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Winter 2002


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

E. Lee Skjon

University of Chicago, Linguistics and Anthropology
"The Vanguardist Imperative, Statement of Nation, and Language Question in Mozambique's Sociedade Nova, 1975-1985"
January 10, 2002
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Paul Kockelman

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Inalienable Possessions and Personhood, Illness and Intentionality"
January 24, 2002
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James Rizzo

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Newcomb's Problem and the Ethics of Capitalism "
February 7, 2002
Paper v1
Paper v2

Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr

Washington University - Anthropology
"Temporalities of community and the ethnicization of language in Mauritius"
February 21, 2002
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Spring 2001


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

Mike Reay

University of Chicago, Sociology
"The Significance of What Economists Laugh About"
April 5, 2001
 

E. Lee Skjon

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"The Pragmatics of Language and Violence in Mozambique's Postcolonial War, 1975-1992"
April 19, 2001
Dowload paper

Prof. Deirdre McCloskey

University of Illinois-Chicago, History, Economics, English
May 1, 2001
 

Prof. Richard Bauman

Indiana University, Anthropology, Speech and Culture, Folklore and Ethnomusicology Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
"Antiquaries and Philologists: The Construction of Modernity and Its Others in 17th and 18th Century England"
May 17, 2001
 

Prof. John Lucy

University of Chicago, Human Development
"Semantic Accent"
May 31, 2001
 

Winter 2001


Presentation Date and Time Downloads and Notes

Paul Kockelman

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Interjections and Emotion in Q'eqchi'-Maya"
January 11, 2001
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Daniel Rosenblatt

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Houses and Their Rituals in The City"
January 25, 2001
Dowload paper

Anne Lorimer

University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Both box and gift: wheel well as vertiginous built space and microcosmic sign"
February 8, 2001
 

Dominic Boyer

University of Chicago, Harper Fellow
"Media Markets, Mediating Labors, and the Branding of East German Culture at 'Super Illu'"
February 22, 2001
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Prof. Terry N. Clark

University of Chicago, Sociology
"Chicago's New Political Culture:Ê Trees and Real Violins"
March 1, 2001
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