Fifth Annual Conference on Semiotic Anthropology, May 4th, 2018
2018 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, May 4th
8:00 – 8:30 am Coffee and light breakfast
PANEL: MEDIA INTERVENTIONS
8:30 – 9:00 am
Tri Phuong, Yale University
Fish or Formosa? Digital activism, environmental movement and social protest in contemporary Vietnam
9:00 – 9:30 am
Yalong Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Individualistic nationalism in online protest in China
9:30 – 10:00 am
Nooshin Sadeghsamimi, University of Pennsylvania
The voicing structure of silence
Discussant: David Fossum, University of Pittsburgh
PANEL: MAKING INEFFABLES REAL
10:15 – 10:45 am
George Bayuga, Yale University
Between piety and sincerity: Doubt as a condition of missionary faith for Chinese sisters
10:45 – 11:15 pm
Justin Clapp, University of Pennsylvania
Reckoning with medical decision making: semiotic anthropology on new (but familiar) terrain
11:15 – 11:45 am
Elliot Prasse-Freeman, Harvard University
Taking rights seriously or taking rights, seriously? ontologies in two speech communities’ rights discourses
11:45-12:15 pm
Ferhan Tunagur, University of PennsylvaniaWhere do “seconds” come from?
Discussant: Becky Schulthies, Rutgers University
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
PANEL: REIMAGINING CULTURE
1:30-2:00 pm
Peter Chung, Yale University
Tweeting the brand persona
2:00-2:30 pm
Sharon Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
Mate and the mahjar: A South American commodity becomes a Levantine social emblem
2:30-3:00 pm
Becky Schulthies, Rutgers University
A raciolinguistics of writing
3:00-3:30 pm
Sarah Carson, University of Pennsylvania
Woman leaders in the neoliberal imaginary
Discussant: Justin Clapp, University of Pennsylvania
3:45-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
PANEL: FASHIONING PERSONAE
4:00-4:30 pm
David Fossum, University of Pittsburgh
Copyright, Folklore, and The Semiotics of Creativity in Turkey
4:30-5:00 pm
Karelle Hall, Rutgers University
Plurilingualism on the Chesapeake Nanticoke and Lenape traditional futures
5:00-5:30 pm
Gabrielle Cabrera, Rutgers University
The Semiotics of Survival and Ethnographic Refusal
5:30-6:00 pm
Marc Perlman, Brown University
Lang ideology as Cultural Model
Discussant: Kristina Nielsen, University of Pennsylvania