The Semiotics Workshop is pleased to announce its 2013 Spring Quarter Theme and Schedule:
“Semiotic spatialities”
Despite, or because of, the ways in which semiotic forms constantly travel, there are many attempts to keep them within boundaries of space and place. Papers this quarter will address how semiotic forms are bound, maintained and controlled within particular socio-geographic milieux.
Schedule
April 11 – “Anatomy of a failed raid: gendered harassment on the internet and the metapragmatics of trolling”
Giovanni Ricci
PhD Student, Anthropology
Univ. of Chicago
Discussant: Michael Castelle
April 25 – “‘The Irish Appelation’: How and why whiskey became ‘Irish’ in the early modern British imaginary”
Megan Edwards
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Univ. of Chicago
Discussant: Colin Halverson
Joint meeting with IAW, in Haskell 315
May 16 – “Chronotope and Crisis: Interdiscursivity and the Semiotic Production of Violence”
Gabe Tusinski
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Univ. of Chicago
Discussant: Giovanni Ricci
Meeting in Haskell Mezzanine Room 131
May 23 – “Warring standards: Contesting the enregisterment of Cosmopolitan Mandarin”
Qing Zhang
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Univ. of Arizona
Discussant: Angelica Felice
June 6 – TBA
Erik Skjon
PhD Candidate
Univ. of Chicago
Discussant: Elizabeth Brummel