The Semiotics Workshop

Spring 2020 Schedule

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...

Fall 2019 Schedule

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)...

Spring 2019 Schedule

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” *...

Winter 2019 Schedule

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,...

Spring 2018 Schedule

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,...