Here again is this year’s list of language-related panels and activities at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting, to be held December 3-7 in Washington, DC. As always, please let us know about other relevant panels, either by commenting on this blog post or by sending an email to the editor (nilep “at” ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp).
For more information on the meeting, see AAA’s Annual Meeting Central page and links therein.
Aaron Ansell and Susanne Unger also run down the linguistic anthropology-related events in Anthropology News.
And as always, please let me know if I have misspelled your name, left out a participant, or introduced any other errors.
| Day & Time | Title | Participants |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | THE INVISIBLE SPECTER: LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, NEOLIBERAL MORALITY, AND THE LINGUISTIC INCARNATIONS OF THE ENTERPRISING SELF | Aurora Donzelli, Bonnie Urciuoli, Jillian R Cavanaugh, Kathleen C Riley, Matthew S Wolfgram, Lauren A Hayes |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | SEMIOSIS, REFLEXIVITY, SELF | Benjamin Smith, Paul Kockelman, Stanton E F Wortham, Greg A Thompson, Michele E Koven, John A Lucy, Elise C Berman |
| WED 14:00-15:45 | THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF PARTICIPATION | Steven P Black, Nathaniel W Dumas III, Susan U Philips, Laura C Brown, Rudolf P Gaudio, Lynnette Arnold |
| WED 14:00-15:45 | PRODUCING LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA | Rachel George, Rachel Flamenbaum, Marcy Brink-Danan, Nicole Nathan, Emanuel A. da Silva, Elizabeth A Falconi |
| WED 14:00-15:45 | LAYERS, VOICES, CONFLICTS, & OPPORTUNITIES: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE AS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES | Sarah Nelle Newcomer, Carla A McNelly, Daisy E Fredricks, Laura A Valdiviezo, Kathleen Lazdowski, Eric J Johnson, Susan Dwoskin, James Collins |
| WED 20:00-21:45 | THE STAKES IN SPEAKING: NEW STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION | Bradley A Levinson, Kara D Brown, Stephanie Lynn Abraham, Jennifer Leigh Stacy, Andrea Renee Leone, Kathryn D Stemper, Adeline Lebeaux |
| THR 7:30-9:00 | SLA Executive Board Meeting | Executive board |
| THR 9:00-10:45 | CONDUITS OF VOICE: MEDIATION, ANIMATION, AND AFFECT | Laura E Kunreuther, Amanda Weidman, Miyako Inoue, Nicholas H Harkness, Daniel Fisher |
| THR 9:00-10:45 | Roundtable PROFESSIONAL DIVIDES III: JOURNALISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN CONVERSATION ABOUT LANGUAGE, PRACTICE, AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION |
Colleen M Cotter, Jonathan D Rosa, Alexandra M Jaffe, Mark Allen Peterson, E Moore Quinn, Hilary Parsons Dick |
| THR 11:00-12:45 | PRODUCING THE PERCEPTIBLE: INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN INTERACTION | Norma Mendoza-Denton, Melanie McComsey, John B Haviland, Molly Josette Bloom, Dana M. Osborne, John W Du Bois, Jurgen Karl Streeck |
| THR 11:00-12:45 | APPROACHING AFFECT: ETHNOLINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATION | Alana Lee Glaser, Asif Agha, Julia McKinney, Elaine W Chun, Nessette Falu, Bonnie McElhinny, Shalini Shankar |
| THR 11:00-12:45 | LANGUAGE, LOVE, AND ROMANCE: ‘MODERN’ PRODUCTIONS OF GENDER, MORALITY, AND COURTSHIP THROUGH EVERYDAY INTERACTION AND NARRATIVE DISCOURSE | Lourdes de Leon, Heather Loyd, Merav Shohet, Laura M Ahearn, Ayala Fader, Mary K Good |
| THR 11:00-12:45 | ANALYZING WORDS: LOOKING INWARD (ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION) AND OUTWARD (FOOD AND HEALTH) | Jessica S Chandras, Kevin Kwon, Kaitlyn Ahlers, Sindy Yaneth De La Torre Pacheco, Monica E Rodriguez, Helena Zeweri, Evan Fairbourn, Maggie Zraly |
| THR 13:00-14:15 | SLA Social Justice Task Force | Task force participants |
| THR 14:30-16:15 | EMOTION PEDAGOGIES/EMOTION INC I.:DISCOURSES OF THE EMOTIONAL SELF | Karen J Brison, James M Wilce Jr, Janina Fenigsen, Bonnie McElhinny, Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas, Erica Shannon Rockhold, Amalia Sa’ar, Cyndi Dunn |
| THR 14:30-16:15 | PARSING THE BODY | Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, Rusty Barrett, Constantine V Nakassis, Lal Zimman, Elaine W Chun, Jonathan D Rosa, Angela Reyes, Donna M. Goldstein |
| THR 14:30-16:15 | TAKING OFFENSE: SEMIOTIC ENCOUNTERS WITH INSULT, VULGARITY, AND OBSCENITY | William Feeney, Shunsuke Nozawa, Christopher Paul Bloechl, Elise A Kramer, Giovanni Ricci |
| THR 14:30-16:15 | SINCERITY, ETHICS, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF INTERIORITY | Niloofar Haeri, Webb Keane, Michael Lambek, Rupert Stasch, Courtney J Handman, Sonja Luehrmann, Ayala Fader |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MULTILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA | Nicholas Q. Emlen, Bruce Mannheim, Karl F. Swinehart, Anna M. Babel, Patience Epps, Sarah Shulist, Janet M Chernela, Jonathan D Hill |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | ENGAGING A CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF RACE | Audrey Noelle Lopez, Hareem Khan, Lalaie Ameeriar and Qiuana L Lopez, Juan Sebastian Ferrada, Meghan Nicole Corella Morales, Grayson Ford Maas |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND (POST)NATIONAL IDENTITIES | Elizabeth Coville, Arie Molema, Kara K Fleming, Jerry Won Lee, Kyoko Motobayashi, Stephen KH Peters, Nora Tyeklar |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | LANGUAGE, PLACE, AND THE DISRUPTION OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE | James Costa, Alexandra M Jaffe, Barbara Johnstone, Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, Sara C. Brennan, Bernadette O’Rourke, Kelle L Keating, Sari Pietikainen, Annette Boudreau |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | NEGOTIATION STANCES AND METASOCIOLINGUISTIC STANCES IN BILINGUAL, HERITAGE, SECOND, AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS | Amy Kyratzis, Netta R Avineri, Seyda Deniz Tarim, Ekaterina Moore, Bridget Goodman |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | PRODUCING SPEAKERS, PRODUCING SELVES | Nona D Moskowitz, Lydia Rodriguez, Eve Danziger, Adam Harr, Elina I Hartikainen, M. Eleanor Nevins |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | STORIES OF SELVES: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY | Brendan Regan, Michael James Elster, Kristen M Lindblom, Amelia Tseng, Shane Lief, M. Sidury Christiansen, Adrienne Lynett |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | TRANSPARENCY AND TRANSMISSION: THE TRAVEL OF WORDS | Scott MacLochlainn, Perry Maxfield Waldman Sherouse, Greg Urban, Gretchen E Pfeil, Danilyn Rutherford, Elana F Resnick, Jennifer L Jackson |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | WORDS, THINGS, AND PERSONS: NEGOTIATING MARGINALITY THROUGH DISCOURSE AND THE MATERIAL | Erica Pelta Feldman, Sandra Keller, Nishaant Choksi, Emily R Canning, Lavrentia Karamaniola, Lauren Colomb |
| THR 18:30-20:15 | Roundtable DILEMMAS AND COMPLEXITIES OF MULTILINGUAL FIELDWORK |
Aneta Pavlenko , Alexandre Duchene, Sari Pietikainen, Jennifer Leeman, John A Lucy, John B Haviland, Alison Mackey |
| FRI 9:00-10:45 | DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS: LANGUAGE, RACE AND IDENTITIES IN PLACE | Edward K Snajdr, Shonna L Trinch, Adrienne Shiu-Ming Lo, Lanita Jacobs, Jennifer Leeman, Andrea L Smith, Kristin Loftsdottir |
| FRI 9:00-10:45 | NOT YOUR GRANDPARENTS’ SALVAGE: DOCUMENTARY LINGUISTICS AS A RESOURCE FOR PRODUCING ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE 21ST C | Niko Besnier, Lise Dobrin, Alexander D King, Shobhana Lakshmi Chelliah, Peter K Austin, John B Haviland |
| FRI 9:00-10:45 | PRODUCING VIOLENCE: INTERACTIONAL AND INTERSUBJECTIVE DIMENSIONS OF AGGRESSION, INJURY, AND HARM | Paul B Garrett, Inmaculada M Garcia Sanchez, Mark Allen Peterson, Robin H Conley, Heather Levi, Jennifer Schlegel |
| FRI 11:00-12:45 | FROM SIGNATURE TO BRANDING: EXPLORING THE (VERBAL) ARTISTRY OF CONTEMPORARY TOURIST ENCOUNTERS | Anthony K Webster, Alexandra M Jaffe, John Leavitt, Christopher Ball, Kathryn Graber, Daniel F Suslak, Rusty Barrett |
| FRI 11:00-12:45 | SILENCE IN/AND ETHNOGRAPHY: CARTOGRAPHIES OF POWER AND KNOWLEDGE IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS PUBLICS | Natasha Zaretsky, Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, Ann E Kingsolver, Robin E Sheriff, Rachel Newcomb, Ellen E Moodie |
| FRI 13:00-14:15 | SLA Presidential Conversation ON PRODUCING LINGUISTIC RACISM |
Paul V Kroskrity, Barbra A Meek, H. Samy Alim, Jonathan D Rosa, Adrienne Shiu-Ming Lo, Rudolf P Gaudio, Bernard C Perley |
| FRI 14:30-16:15 | ETHNOGRAPHY OF EPISTEMOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRODUCTION OF DEAF COMMUNITIES AND DEAF COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES | Richard J Senghas, Anne Elaine Pfister, Barbara LeMaster, Erika G Hoffmann-Dilloway, Audrey C Cooper, J.Paige MacDougall |
| FRI 14:30-16:15 | Roundtable TALK IN CRISIS: HATE SPEECH, RELIGIOUS OFFENSE, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATION IN EUROPE |
Jillian R Cavanaugh, Marcy Brink-Danan, Jessica Greenberg, Nitzan Shoshan |
| FRI 14:30-16:15 | THE MEANING OF WRITING | Lise Dobrin, Jessica Marie Boynton, Saul Schwartz, Mark A Sicoli, Dave Paulson, Michael Wenzel, Michelle Justine Morgenstern, Lucas Carneiro de Carvalho |
| FRI 18:30-20:15 | PERFORMANCE, TRANSLATION AND THE CREATION OF WORDS | Alan Rumsey, Margarita Valdovinos, Ethan Ingram, Elizabeth A Kelley, Siv Brun Lie, Dave Wilson |
| FRI 18:30-20:15 | PRODUCING COMPETENCIES: AFFECTIVE IDENTIFICATIONS IN PROJECTS OF LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND REVITALIZATION | Christopher D Berk, Nishaant Choksi, Anthony K Webster, Sherina Feliciano-Santos, Jenny L Davis |
| SAT 9:00-10:45 | SEMIOTICS, MEDIATION, AND COMMUNICATIVE ENCOUNTERS: THE SOCIETY FOR LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST PANEL | Shalini Shankar, Richard Bauman, Paul Manning, Perry Maxfield Waldman Sherouse, Katherine B Martineau, Matthew L Hale, Magnus Pharao Hansen, Lori Labotka |
| SAT 11:00-12:45 | BEYOND PERFECTION: CO-VARIATION IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIVE EFFICACY | Kamala Russell, Terra Edwards, John A Lucy, Colin Halverson, Hope Morgan, Daniel Ginsberg, Diane Brentari, Marie Coppola |
| SAT 11:00-12:45 | POLYGLOT IDEOLOGIES OF THE STATE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES | Alfonso Del Percio, Emilie Urbain, Susan Gal, Bernard Bate, Judith Temkin Irvine, Cecile B Vigouroux |
| SAT 11:00-12:45 | THE QUALITY OF YOUTH: SOCIO-SEMIOTIC CATEGORIES AND SHIFTING MEANINGS OF YOUTH | Elizabeth J Brummel, Owen Nathaniel Kohl, Mary Bucholtz, Daniel Rosenblatt, Falina Enriquez, Krisjon R Olson |
| SAT 13:00-14:15 | SLA Presidential Conversation on Mentoring | Norma Mendoza-Denton, Judith M. S. Pine, Paul V Kroskrity, Maribel Alvarez, Jenny L Davis, Jenanne Kirsten Ferguson |
| SAT 14:30-16:15 | COMMUNICATING BODIES: NEW JUXTAPOSITIONS OF LINGUISTIC AND MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY* | Paja L Faudree, T.S. Harvey, Joel Kuipers, Summerson Carr, Charles L Briggs |
| SAT 14:30-16:15 | Poster session THE ROLE OF REFLEXIVITY IN DISCOURSE AND INTERACTION: NEW APPROACHES |
Minerva Oropeza, Viola Miglio, Michael Harris, María Elena Amaro Amaro, Eva Michelle Wheeler |
| SAT 20:30-23:30 | SLA Business Meeting and cash bar |
SLA Members |
| SUN 8:00-9:45 | BUILDING THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONSTRUCT: HOW DIALOGIC PRACTICE MOBILIZES AUTHORITY AND AFFORDS SOCIAL ACTION | John W Du Bois, Samantha Coveleski, Anna Bax, Kayla Eisman, Kevin Schaefer, Morgan Sleeper, Jessica Love-Nichols |
| SUN 8:00-9:45 | LANGUAGE ACTIVISM AND PRESERVATION | Patrick J Moore, Nicole Berger, Forrest W Young, Martina Volfova, Laura A Horton, Melissa Krug, Yuki Tanaka |
| SUN 8:00-9:45 | PRODUCING LANGUAGE, REVIVING CULTURE: METHODS AND MEANS OF AWAKENING A SLEEPING LANGUAGE | Judith M Maxwell, Patricia Anderson, Joyce N Bennett, Elisabeth M Pierite-Mora, Donna M. Pierite, Zachary Nicholas Hebert, Mary Kate Kelly |
| SUN 8:00-9:45 | Roundtable WHY CAN’T LINGUISTIC AND MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS JUST GET ALONG* |
Charles L Briggs, Paja L Faudree, Webb Keane, Lawrence Cohen, Susan Gal, Judith Farquhar |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | CHALLENGING ASCRIBED NOTIONS: LINGUISTIC RESISTANCE TO HEGEMONIC EXPECTATIONS | Diana Budur, Mutsumi Sebata, Yi-An Chen, Melissa M Engman, Hiroko Takanashi, Johanna Woydack |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | LANGUAGE NORMS IN CANADA’S FRANCOPHONIE: DISCOURSE, TENSIONS AND DISTURBANCE | Mireille McLaughlin, Patricia Lamarre, Annette Boudreau, Melanie LeBlanc, Catherine Leclerc, Daniel Caron |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | MEDIA, IDEOLOGY, AND PERFORMANCE | Aslihan Akkaya, Bethany J. Beyyette, Andrew P Graan, Joseph Oduro-Frimpong, Anna Marie Trester, Amir Pouyan Shiva, Nathan E Meyer |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | NEGOTIATING GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND RACE | Holly Lynn Walters, Tyanna Slobe, Atsuko Oyama, Priscila Leal, Hyejin Nah, Brianna Renee Cornelius, Lauren Colomb |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | PRODUCING STORYTELLING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: NEW CHALLENGES | Sabina M Perrino, Anna De Fina, Paige Allison Arthur, Betsy Rymes, Michael Bamberg, Natalie M Underberg-Goode |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | SEMIOTICS OF ANIMATION | Eitan Y Wilf, Ilana Gershon, Paul Manning, Teri J Silvio, Paul Kockelman, Shunsuke Nozawa, Hirofumi Katsuno |
| SUN 10:00-11:45 | REPRESENTING MATERIALITY IN, AND THROUGH, LANGUAGES | Judith M. S. Pine, Tzu-kai Liu, Elizabeth A Spreng, Robert J Shepherd, Zhaohua Ho, Mei-Ling Chien |
| SUN 12:00-13:15 | PRODUCING LANGUAGE RECLAMATION: CONTESTING AND DECOLONIZING ‘LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT’ FROM THE GROUND UP | Wesley Y Leonard, Haley De Korne, Teresa L McCarty, Jenny L Davis, Mary Hermes, Nancy H Hornberger |
*See also two related panels, “PRODUCING INTERCULTURAL DISCOURSE IN THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER” PART 1 (Saturday 18:30-20:15) and PART 2 (Saturday 14:30-16:15) [times sic].
You may also be interested in these language- or linguistic-themed papers within other panels.
The panel “THE ONGOING LEGACY OF FRANZ BOAS” (Thursday 9:00-10:45) features John Leavitt’s paper, “Boas’s Anthropology through a Linguistic Lens”.
The installation “Ethnographic Terminalia” (Wednesday through Sunday at Hierarchy) includes linguists and folklorists among its exhibitors.
[Post last updated 13 November]