The Semiotics: Culture in Context Workshop is happy to announce our Winter quarter schedule:
Thursday, Jan 13th: Duff Morton
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago
“What Makes a Meeting? What Does a Meeting Make? Reaching Decisions in Brazil’s Landless Movement”
Discussant: Lee Cabatingan
Thursday, Jan 27th: Elina Hartikainen
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago
“Ritual Power, Social Power: Managing Reputation in Candomblé”
Discussant: Chris Sheklian
Thursday, Feb 3rd: Gretchen Bakke
Anthropology, McGill University
Sections from the book Apropos of Nothing: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society: including Ch. 2 “By the very cunning of the scene” and Ch. 3 “Človek, Človeka, Ljudi: A Local History of Twoness”
Discussant: Natalja Czarnecki
Thursday, Feb 17th: Elise Kramer
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Discussant: Ella Butler
Friday, Mar 4th: E. Valentine Daniel
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Keynote address: “The Lost Ur”
Discussants: Victor D’Avella (SALC) and Shunsuke Nozawa (Anthropology)
“The Limits of South Asia: The Eighth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference”
4:50 pm Swift Hall Common Room
(For the full conference program visit: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/sagsc-viii)
All meetings are from 4:30 to 6:00 in Haskell 101, unless otherwise noted.
The workshop welcomes participants from any discipline with an interest in engaging a semiotic framework for analysis. Papers are available by email request from our graduate student coordinators, Amy McLachlan (amclachlan@uchicago.edu) and Chris Bloechl (cbloechl@uchicago.edu).
If you believe you may need special assistance in attending the workshop or you have other questions or concerns, please contact the graduate student coordinators.