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Nicholas Dempsey
University of Chicago, Sociology
"Metaphors We Play By: Conceptual Blends in Musical Practice " |
January 17, 2007 |
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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 |
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Bonnie Urciuoli
Professor, Anthropology, Hamilton College
" 'Bringing Diversity to the campus': The work of college multicultural organizations and the semiotics thereof " |
February 14, 2008 |
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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 |
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Erin Debenport
Linguistics, University of Chicago
Language Use at Sandia Pueblo: Ideologies, Revitalization and Institutionalization |
March 11, 2008 |
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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 |
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Eli Thorkelson
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Knowledge as ideology: Lycee philosophy classes and the category of the intellectual" |
October 18, 2007 |
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HIlary Parsons Dick
Postdoctoral Instructor, Anthropology & Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
"Chronotopes of Movement in Mexican Migrant Discourse" |
November 1, 2007 |
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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 |
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Kristina Wirtz
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Western Michigan University
"Making sense of unintelligible messages in divine communication" |
December 6, 2007 |
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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 |
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Nicholas Harkness
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"'Technique' as Analytic: The Semiotics of Specialization in Western Classical Singing" |
April 19, 2007 |
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Elina Hartikainen
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"African Child Spirits in Brazil: Negotiating Brazilian Constellations of Africanness through Candomble Spirit Speech" |
May 3, 2007 |
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Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor & Department Chair, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
"On the Modalities of the Domestic" |
May 17, 2007 |
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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 |
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Hussein Agrama
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
"The Legalization of Hisba in the Case of Nasr Abu Zayd" |
May 31, 2007 |
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Andy Graan
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"On the Currency of Current Events: Scandals, Politics, and the News Media in Macedonia" |
January 18, 2007 |
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William Mazzarella
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
"'Cannibals Enjoy Comedies': Apprehending the Cinema in Late Colonial India" |
February 1, 2007 |
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Laurence Ralph
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"The Shifting Indexical Quality of Gangsta Rap" |
February 15, 2007 |
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Alejandro Paz
Anthropology/Linguistics, University of Chicago
"Entextualizing Chisme: Small Media and the Public Life of Latinos in Israel" |
March 1, 2007 |
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Martin Stokes
Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
"Beloved Istanbul: Three Views of the City" |
December 7, 2007 |
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Chris Ball
University of Chicago, Anthropology/Lingjistics
"Huluki: (In)alienability and ethnolinguistic differentiation in the Upper Xingu" |
October 5, 2006 |
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Abigail Rosenthal
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Sign Here: Building a Town for the Deaf" |
October 19, 2006 |
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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) |
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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) |
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Martin Stokes
Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
"Beloved Istanbul: Three Views of the City" |
December 7, 2006 |
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Kesha Fikes
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Conditions of Inclusion: The Identity Politics of Clandestine Street Sales in Lisbon" |
April 6, 2006 |
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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 |
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Marina Peterson
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Patrolling the Plaza: Privatized Public Space and the Neoliberal State in Downtown Los Angeles" |
May 4, 2006 |
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Tom Boellstorff
niversity of California, Irvine, Anthropology
"Homo Cyber: The Ethnography of Virtual Worlds" |
May 19, 2006 |
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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 |
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Tom Guthrie
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Recognizing Heritage" |
October 6, 2005 |
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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 |
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Kenneth McGill
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"The 'Street Newspaper' in Berlin and Chicago: Interaction, Publicity, Institution" |
November 3, 2005 |
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Joe Masco
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Atomic Cinema: Public Pedagogy and the Semiotics of Nuclear Fear" |
November 17, 2005 |
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Sarah Jain
Stanford University, Cultural and Social Anthropology
"Luxury Identity: Speed and Value in the City" |
December 8, 2005 |
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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 |
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Lauren Keeler
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Linguistic reconstruction and the construction of dialect difference in Nationalist-era Chinese lingusitics" |
April 21, 2005 |
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Elizabeth Mertz
American Bar Association, Chicago
"Legal 'facts' and the meta-language of U.S. law school education" |
April 28, 2005 |
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Lydia Liu
University of Michicago, Comparative Literature
"Ideographic imagination: how alphabetic writing became post-phonetic" |
May 5, 2005 |
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Anya Bernstein
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Speaking in the spaces of the state" |
May 12, 2005 |
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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 |
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Scott Kiesling
University of Pittsburgh, Linguistics
"Homosocial desire in men's talk: balancing and recreating cultural discourses of masculinity" |
February 3, 2005 |
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Laura Miller
Loyola University, Anthropology
"Junk writing and tampered inscription: expressive art in Japanese girls' culture" |
February 17, 2005 |
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Elizabeth Povinelli
Columbia University, Anthropology
"Rotten Worlds: Intimacy, Carnality, Genealogy" |
March 3, 2005 |
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Anya Bernstein
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Speaking in the spaces of the state" |
May 12, 2005 |
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Mike Reay
University of Chicago, Sociology
"The Significance of What Economists Laugh About" |
April 5, 2001 |
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E. Lee Skjon
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"The Pragmatics of Language and Violence in Mozambique's Postcolonial War, 1975-1992" |
April 19, 2001 |
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Prof. Deirdre McCloskey
University of Illinois-Chicago, History, Economics, English |
May 1, 2001 |
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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 |
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Prof. John Lucy
University of Chicago, Human Development
"Semantic Accent" |
May 31, 2001 |
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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 |
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Anne Lorimer
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Both box and gift: wheel well as vertiginous built space and microcosmic sign" |
February 8, 2001 |
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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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