Seminar Schedule and Speakers
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Translation/Transduction
September 12
Susan Gal, “Forms of Translation/Transduction”
Elliott Colla, “Important Announcement: Translation and Entextualizations of a Poem”
September 13
Mairi McLaughlin, “Translation in Linguistic and Cultural Change”
Toby Warner, “Counterpoetics and Translation”
Saul Schwartz, “Acts of Translation and Acts against Translation in Chiwere Language Documentation”
Sound
October 10
Miyako Inoue, “From Society of the Spectacle to Society of Control: The Fate of Women’s Language in Post-Recessionary Japan” (not shown)
Tom McEnaney, “Where is the Voice Coming From?: Fifty Years of Biografía de un cimarrón”
Amanda Weidman, “The Enregisterment of ‘Husky Voice’ in South Indian Playback Singing”
October 11
Paja Faudree, “Semiotic Affordances as Semiotic Wealth in Mexican Indigenous Authorship” (not shown)
Daniel Fisher, “Displacements: Two Scenes from the Speech Song Continuum” (not shown)
Charles Hirschkind, “Flamenco, History, and the Visions of Andalusismo”
Publics
November 14
Rosetta Young, “‘Unstudied Correctness’: The Conduct Book and the Public of Virtuous Affluence, 1770-1810”
Constantine Nakassis, “Image-Texts and Image-Acts of Presence and the Real”
Asif Agha, “Pecuniary Media, Publics, and Participation Frameworks”
November 15
Francis Cody, “Short Circuit: Metamorphoses of Publicity and Popular Sovereignty”
Nicholas Harkness, “Glossolalia between Two Publics”
Virginia Jackson
Religion
February 6
Niklaus Largier
Michael Warner (not shown)
Mayanthi Fernando
February 7
Michael Allan, “Reading Religion: From Translation to Mediation”
Courtney Handman, “Linguistic and Religious Inventions”
Webb Keane
Sexuality
March 13
Rusty Barrett, “Are You a Friend of Dostoyevsky?: Intertextuality, Indexicality, and Sexuality”
Michael Lucey, “Ami ou protégé: Balzac, Proust and the Variability of Friendship”
March 14
Howard Fisher, “Sexual Classification, Sexual Metapragmatics in The Making of Americans (1902-1911)”
Roshanak Kheshti, “Listening to Trans History: From Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries to Switched-on Bach”
Damon Young (not shown)
Politics
April 3
Michael Silverstein, "Language, Law, and 'Locke-ocracy' in the American Experiment"
Tristram Wolff, "Variations on Colonial Encounter in Thoreau's 'Indian Notebooks'"
April 4
Judith Irvine, "Zulu Genres of Honorific Discourse: A (Brief) Political and Historical View"
Sarah Kessler, "'You're the Puppet': Presidential Ventriloquism, Vocal Technologies, and the Politics of Voice"
History, Politics, and Ethics of Linguistic Anthropology
May 1
Charles Briggs, "A Glance at the History of Linguistic Anthropology Through the Concept of Value Work"
Mary Bucholtz, "Resisting Racism and Neoliberalism in Critical Linguistic Research and Activism with Racialized Youth" (not shown)
Jillian Cavanaugh, "Transcription as Embodied Entextualization: Process, Transformation, Authority"
May 2
Barbara Meek, "An Ethics of Refusal: The View from Aboriginal Language Revitalization" (not shown)
Beth Piatote, "Listening to Broken Records: Reflections on the Stakes of Indigenous Archives" (not shown)
Jacqueline Urla, "The Problem of Generative Critique"