The Semiotics Workshop
Thursday, April 15 Myungji Lee (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago) A state fatwa in scandal: the enactment of public criticism’s authority” Thursday, April 29 Do Dom Kim (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago) “How to...
Thursday, January 21 Perry Wong (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago) “Linguistic cosmography and the drift of pragmatic paradigms of linguistic registers in southern Mesoamerica” Thursday, February 4 Lily Ye (PhD Candidate, Comparative...
Thursday, October 8 Janet Connor (PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago) “Listening Like a State? Representation, Expertise, and Time in Participatory Political Projects” Thursday, October 22 Courtney Handman (Associate...
Thursday, April 23 Wee Yang Soh (PhD Student, Anthropology, University of Chicago) “‘It’s Dangerous to Talk Like Americans’: How an Image of the US in Decline Mediates Racial Discourse in Singapore” Thursday, May 14 Krystal Smalls...
Thursday, October 3 Hannah McElgunn (PhD Candidate, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago) “Death by the Commons” Thursday, October 24 Gregory Thompson (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brigham Young University)...
Thursday, April 11 Perry Wong (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology) “Introducing Mayan from Cunén: Constructing an Ethnography from the Inside Out” * Thursday, May 2 Kristin Hickman (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology) “TBD” *...
Thursday, January 17 Adam Sargent (Postdoctoral Researcher, Northwestern University) “The Hazards of Training: Ideologies of Labor and the Consequences of Toil in India’s Construction Industry” ** Thursday, January 31 Christopher Bloechl (PhD Candidate,...
Thursday, October 11 **from 5-6:30pm** Meghanne Barker (Harper Schmidt Fellow, University of Chicago) “Meeting a Stranger” * Thursday, October 25 Elise Kramer (Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)...
Thursday, March 29 Lily Chumley (Assistant Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University) “Fertile Virtue Wealth: Gendered Agencies and the Linguistic Administration of Market Socialism” Thursday, April 12 Angela Reyes (Professor,...
Thursday, January 11 Britta Ingebretson (PhD Candidate, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago) “”She has two sons:” Reproducing State Discourses in Rural China” Thursday, January 25 Yaqub Hilal (PhD Candidate,...