COLLOQUIA

Colonial Marxism: From ethnographic survey to political takeover in 1950s Amdo Tibet

Student Landscapes: Semiotics of a school board meeting

Ritual specialists and registers of Kalevala-metric incantations

Whoosh goes the market: Algorithms, automation, and alienation

Evidentials across speech-chains

Elephant labor and moral boundary projects

Voicing acting and social persona in Japanese anime

Honorifics and politeness in Korean second language pedagogy

Singers and songs: the Griotte Lamb repertory

Imperial deixis

Interactional alignments & formulations of evidential “knowledge”

Temporal processes of political subordination

Feeling and empathy in an Amdo Tibetan speech genre

Register differentiation within an honorific register

Sabar drumming: verbal, musical and mystical art

Animal welfare and conservation in Karen communities

Modernist writing styles in early 20th c. China

Kyrgyz Knowledge production

The production of attributes and personae in call centers

Particles and particulars in Amdo Tibetan Conservationist Register

Historical narratives of Modern Written Chinese

The city in property relations: micro-politics and crises of scale

Major Measure and Sheep Ship: Grading (un)Markedness in Accent Training in Indian BPOs

Intensity, aspiration, affliction

Performing (Dis)Order: Doing Things with ‘Nothing’ in South African Parliamentary Debate

Verb Aspect in Kirghiz

Indian call centers & social inequities

Mapuche Ethnic Revival and Identity

Environmental preservation in Amdo Tibet

Lawmaking and national politics in Cambodia

Measuring the Forest: Grading Environments and Producing Scientific Knowledge in the Yucatan Peninsula

Schooling, Neighborhood and Real Estate in Hartford, CT

Informational Technology Training in Chinese Vocational Schools

Evidentiality in Turkish and Kirghiz

Verbal Categories in Amdo Tibeta

Verbal Categories in Turkish

The Call Center Industry in India

Spirit and Nature

Talking tax: The discursive construction of law and loopholes

Biaccentual intimacies and national sentiments in Indonesia

Biaccentual intimacies and national sentiments in Indonesia

Multi-modal melodies: Drum speech and song in Senegalese wrestling

The doubling of dual operators (as duplex categories): Aspect, grade, and quantity in Q’eqchi’-Maya

The resilience of ‘backwardness’ in post-Socialist modernities

Political entrepreneurs in Indian slums: changing contexts of community leadership in Hyderabad

“Show me your code”: language ideology in and beyond programming

Hippies and Charlatans, Traditionalists and Essentialists: Marking stance and charting strategy with Mapuche Language activists in Chile

The troll: Author or hero of the new culture wars?

Ontological policing

Performing expertise: the mediatization of psychoanalysis in mass media

Signs of disease

Clear language, clear citizenship

Code switching in music

Race and the Supreme court

Register boundaries in mathematical practices

The voicing structure of a mathematical proof

God, the Integers, and You

Grammatical categories of the Kyrgyz verb

Anime imaginaries

Bias and taboo in Jury Trial

Immigrant music

Aksakal courts in Kyrgyzstan

Manding languages

Media and Youth Style

Speech and Song

Judicial process in Cambodia

Commodity formulations and language use

Ideologies of speech & politics in Manding communities

The enregisterment of food practices

Children's language leaning, intersubjectivity and sociocultural order

Boy racers, cruisers, and car culture

Hashtags and social media

Emblems of Mayan-ness in the Yucatan

Speech play & peer acceptance among South Korean adolescents

Metadiscursive talk in dual language classrooms

Enregisterment of legal reasoning styles in American juries

Aramaic revivalism in Israel and Turkey

Role reversals and colonial imaginaries in Peru

Staged indigenous public speeches in Canada

Transnational South Asians and social media

Race and ethnicity in Latin America

Manga and Anime in Japanese youth subculture

Car talk among car enthusiasts

Multicultural citizenship and bilingual education in Ecuador

Trans-languaging in dual language classrooms

Language ideologies and Syriac borrowings in Suroyo

“(In)correct” verdicts in American jury trials

Ontology and Perspectivism in Chile

Encounters with figurines and identity at Tureng Tepe

Online and Offline Desi lives

Geopolitics of Spaniard-Peruvian interactions in Lima

Aboriginal public speechmaking in Canada

The social identification of a "smart student" in an Arabic classroom

Socioeconomic class and social interaction in Urban environments

On the Chilean model and its discontents

Troubled relations: Languages, ideologies and political sensitivity in Farsi mother tongue classrooms in Copenhagen, Denmark

Corporate business ritual semiosis

The creation of semiotically dense stereotypes in Indonesian Soap Operas

Chronotopes from "un petit paradis": Muslim second-generation youth speak and unspeak Marseille

Consulta Previa: The political life of a constitutional right

The appropriation of transcultural flows by Copenhagen youth: The case of Illuminati imagery

Genre and identity: Self-promotion in online dating advertisements

'You can go ahead and tell her that': Participant roles and participation frameworks in an interpreted medical encounter

Solidarity as regularity: Metapragmatics of affect and sociality in the Occupy movement

From Baffin Island to Boasian induction: How anthropology and linguistics got into their interlinear groove

Classic Maya patron deities: Discourse and materiality

Contesting extraction: State-making, democracy and large-scale mining in Ecuador

Democracy, citizenship, and social movements in Chile

Secular vs. religious identity in Turkey

Transnational ensembles: South Asian youth in Lahore and New York City

Mayan Science curricula and Mayan language revitalization

The new Soviet intelligentsia

Danish popular culture & education

Mayan/Spanish language mixing

Anxieties of masculinity and indigeneity in Urban Amazonia

Making claims to ownership & authorship of a model personhood

Anthropology goes to the movies

Tupac in their veins: Aymara Hip-Hop and the semiotics of urban indigeneity

Homies in the Latino diaspora

The relationship between mass media and classroom discourse

Media and anthropology

Communicative commodity forms: Meaning-making in World of Warcraft

Indigenousness as historical subjectivity

Therapeutic talk in medical encounters

Has gay identity outlived its usefulness?

Artifacts, ‘memory’ and the Armenian genocide

Educator perspectives and ideological debate in Paraguayan bilingual education

The global meaning of Indian real estate

Inalienable possession and personhood

Nation building in Turkmenistan

The Guarani language, ethnic identity, and Paraguayan nationalism

Corporate social responsibility and the case of Starbucks

Consumption and mass media in Thai youth culture

Urban restructuring and the construction industry in India

Mass media and youth culture in Tamil Nadu, India

Spirit possession in Pentecostal churches in Mozambique

Biblical discourse and Christian Socialization

Citizens as Netizens: Democracy in the electronic age

The day of the dead: Poetry, song, and cultural transmission in a Mazatec ritual cycle

Freedom of speech as a discourse of hegemony

Getting Language Rights, Shifting Linguistic Traditions

Learning as social process

Language and Agency in Nepali Love Letters

Corporate discourse and community building

Dance and healing: Authentic movement as therapeutic practice

Blogging the Branded Uterus: Some Remarks on Emergent Textuality and the Meta-Poetics of Presence

Bureaucracy in Mormonism

What Do You Do with ‘I Don’t Know’?: Processes of Elicitation in Ethnographic vs. Survey Interviews

Memes as metaphoric genes of ‘cultural’ heredity: Is anything salvageable from this account?

Animal communication and the evolution of mind

Metaphor in bureaucratic expansion

Resonant Character: Authorship and the Marking of Circulation in Yemeni Audiocassette Poetry

From social interaction to cultural history

Eating disorders

Dance as a form of healing

Demonic possession

Peirce on speculative grammar & phenomenology

The Fate of Politeness in Modern Israeli Hebrew: Gender, Ethnicity and the Zionist Legacy

Talking Sheng: Hybridity, language and youth culture in Nairobi, Kenya

The meaningfulness of eating disorders

Slang and social persona

At the intersection of learning, identity development and social reproduction: pivotal moments from one ninth grade class

Tropes of kinship: Fictive relations and performative realities

Healing talk: Therapeutic narratives and cosmetic surgery

Redneck Refusals: A Western Apache Pronunciation Guide

Reading popular culture: The semiotics of a television 'info-mercial' as an electronic site of ritual self-transformation

Light and Darkness, Power and Loss: The Metaculture of Modernity in Rural Fiji

Sealing the Mexico-U.S. border with words: The metaculture of nation-building in a land of emigrants

Divining the Spirit in the Text: an analysis of narratives about divination in Cuban Santeria

Discourse Genres and Social Arenas: Public Knowledge in Mexican Towns

Lab training session

The Secret Examination of Monica Lewinsky: Role-playing Activity & Manipulation in the Lewinsky-Tripp Tapes