The Semiotics Workshop is pleased to announce our Winter Quarter theme:
“Semiotic Flows”
Semiotic forms are constantly crossing boundaries – national, linguistic, disciplinary, institutional – and much invisible labor is undertaken both to maintain and to convert them, and to de- and recontextualize them. Papers this quarter will address the ways in which these forms circulate and the issues that result from the transductions they undergo.
Schedule:
January 10: “‘Communication’ as a Factor of Production: Language, Morality, and the ‘New Work Order’ in St. Petersburg”
Susanne Cohen
Lecturer, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Tanya Shpigel
January 24: “Ritual Capital: Exchange Value and Market Discourse in a Diamond Trading Room”
Filipe Calvão
Phd Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Tracey Rosen
February 7: “’We Rule You’: The Visual Epistemology of Capitalism as a Pyramid”
Eric Triantafillou
PhD Student, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Xueting Liu
February 21: “Lovin’ on the Women of Boystown: The Triadic Relationship between Sex Workers, Missionaries, and God”
Sarah Luna
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Molly Cunningham
March 7: “Fistbumps and Phonies: Insincerity, deception and lies in urban Kenya”
Elizabeth Brummel
Phd Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Ali Feser
March 21: “Reported Speech as an Authentication Tactic in Computer-Mediated Communication”
Graham M. Jones
Associate Professor, Anthropology
MIT
Discussant: Elise Kramer