The Semiotics Workshop

Spring 2011 quarter schedule

The Semiotics Workshop is pleased to announce our schedule for Spring Quarter 2011: April 7th: Constantine V. Nakassis Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor Dept. of Anthropology University of Chicago “Brand Desires, Anxieties, Ignorances: Young Men’s Peer Groups and the...

March 4th: E. Valentine Daniel

Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Keynote address: “The Lost Ur” “The Limits of South Asia: The Eighth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference” Discussants: Victor D’Avella (SALC) and Shunsuke Nozawa (Anthropology) 4:50 pm Swift Hall...

Call for SLA Grad Paper Prize submissions: Deadline Mar 15

Reposted for the information of folks who may not be on the LINGANTH list: A reminder that SLA is sponsoring a new event for the Graduate Student Paper Prize competition this year, with a workshop for finalists at the AAA meetings in Montreal.  The deadline for...

February 17th: Elise Kramer

Phd Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago “The Caveman in the Mirror:  Barefoot Running, the Paleo Diet, and the Remasculinization of 21st-Century America” Discussant: Ella Butler A joint presentation with the U.S. Locations Workshop...

Rescheduled to Feb 4th: Gretchen Bakke

Anthropology, McGill University Sections from the book Apropos of Nothing: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society (in progress), including: Ch. 2 “By the very cunning of the scene” and Ch. 3 “Človek, Človeka, Ljudi: A Local History of Twoness”. Discussant:...