Center for the Study of Communication and Society

Friday, April 26, 2024

8:45–9am Welcome: Constantine Nakassis (Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago), Luke Fleming (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Montreal), Nicholas Harkness (Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Panel 1, Political (Indexical) Significations, moderator: Lenore Grenoble (John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago), 9am–12:15pm

1. 9–9:25am, Kira Hall (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder) and Ayden Parish (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Autistic Indexicality: Masking as a Higher Order Interaction Order”
2. 9:25–9:50am, Gregory Matoesian (Professor of Criminology, Law & Justice, and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Chicago), “This is Mickey Mouse: Multimodal Oratory and Laminated Voices in an Actual Jury Deliberation”
3. 9:50–10:15am, Elina Hartikainen (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo), “On the Politics of Social (Dis-)Coordination”
4. 10:15–10:40am, Justin Richland (Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine; Faculty Fellow, The American Bar Foundation) “The Ironic Gyres of Indigenous Authority”
5. 10:40–11:05am, Discussant: Joseph Errington (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology. Yale University)

Discussion 11:05–12:15pm

Lunch break

Panel 2, Mediated (Interdiscursive) Circulations, moderator: Susan Gal (Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology & Linguistics, University of Chicago), 1:45–5pm

1. 1:45–2:10pm, Greg Urban (Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania), “On the Concept of Force in Cultural Motion”
2. 2:10–2:35pm, Richard Bauman (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Communication & Culture, Indiana University), ““Lock ‘im up, Dan”: Performance, Interdiscursivity, and Scalar Dynamics in the Vaudeville Career of Walter C. Kelly”
3. 2:35–3pm, Andrew Graan, (Fellow, University of Helsinki Advanced Collegium), “Perpetual Projects: On Circulation, Seriality and the Project Form”
4. 3–3:25pm, Charles Briggs (Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley), “Making the Biocommunicable Body: The Rise and Fall of Fauci’s Biostatistical and Interdiscursive Gestures”
5. 3:25–3:50pm, Discussant: Elise Kramer (Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Discussion 3:50–5pm

Saturday, April 27, 2024

8:45am Welcome

Panel 3, Institutional (Ritual) Emanations, moderator: Summerson Carr (Professor of Anthropology and in the Crown School of Social Work, Policy, & Practice, University of Chicago)

1. 9–9:25am, Michael Lempert (Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan), “Where Emanation Comes From: A History of Scale in the Science of Discursive Interaction”
2. 9:25–9:50am, Kristina Wirtz (Professor of Spanish, Western Michigan University), “Discourse Histories of Learning: What Can Interaction Rituals Teach Us about a Sign’s Eye Perspective on Socialization at School?”
3. 9:50–10:15am, Stanton Wortham (Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College), “The Heterogeneity of Enregisterment and Emanation: An Empirical Case”
4. 10:15–10:40am, Matthew Hull (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan), “One from Many and Many from One: The Unity and Multiplicity of Incorporations”
5. 10:40–11:05am, Discussant: Elizabeth Mertz (Professor Emerita in the Law School, University of Wisconsin and Fellow, American Bar Foundation)

Discussion 11:05–12:15pm

Lunch break

Panel 4, Symbols Grow: Future Significations, Circulations, Emanations (roundtable), moderator: Kamala Russell (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago), 1:45pm

1. Eitan Wilf (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2. Rihan Yeh (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego)
3. Jonathan Rosa (Associate Professor in Education, Stanford University)
4. Barbra Meek (Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor)

6pm Conference dinner