It’s that time of year again. A preliminary schedule for the American Anthropological Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting has been released, and I am compiling my annual listing of linguistic and language-related panels.
SLA will provide access to handouts for some presentations online here. Any presenter who wants to add her or his handout to the list may submit it from that page, or email it to the SLA web guru.
The usual caveats apply: The schedule is preliminary, and abstracts are not yet available. Check the AAA meeting page for more information as it becomes available. As ever, with so many events scheduled it is inevitable that two of your favorites will be held at the same time.
This year’s annual meeting will be held in San Francisco November 14-18 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel. The meeting’s theme is “Borders and Crossings”.
There are more than fifty panel discussions on language-related issues (of more than 700 total sessions). The schedule below lists panel sessions, a poster session, and the SLA business meeting; it does not include the many “innovents” and workshops that also take place during the annual meeting.
If I have missed any relevant sessions, please do let me know. And as always, please let me know if I have misspelled your name or introduced other errors; leave a comment or email me (my last name “at” ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp).
| Date & Time | Title | Participants |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | LANGUAGE, MEDIA, AND THE MOBILIZATION OF MARGINALITY | Lauren Ninoshvili, Anna M Stirr, Paja L Faudree, Kathryn Collins Hardy, Aaron Mulvany |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | MEDIATING THE BORDERS OF GROUP IDENTITY | Michael A Rodgers, M’Balia Thomas, Jonathan G Hill, Lyn W Fogle, Lisa Thorne, Madeline Schellgren, Maximilian S Viatori |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | GENDER ACROSS MODALITIES | Cala A Zubair, Ingrid Norrmann-Vigil, Esra-Gokce Sahin, Jeremy Kelley |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | LANGUAGE PRACTICES AT SCHOOL AND WORK* | Sara Ann Rutherford-Quach, Yi-Ju Lai, Erin Mackinney, Hyunjung Shin, Karen Velasquez |
| WED 12:00-13:45 | CROSSING THE LINE: DISRUPTION AND DIALECTICS IN EVERYDAY EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS* | Rachel R Reynolds, Marcia Elizabeth Farr, Erik A Aasland, Elias Dominguez Barajas, Inmaculada M Garcia Sanchez, Kathryn M Howard |
| WED 14:00-15:45 | INDIGENOUS VOICES: LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION AND CULTURAL BELONGING IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA | Kristina M Jacobsen, Bernard C Perley, Candessa L Tehee, Sara L Snyder, Kristina M Jacobsen, Trevor Reed, Bernard C Perley |
| WED 14:00-15:45 | “WHAT’S YOUR POINT?” THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF DISCOURSE TOPIC | Matthew S Wolfgram, Mark A Sicoli, Michael Silverstein, Joel Kuipers, David Koester, Frederick D Erickson, Marissa Fond |
| WED 14:00-17:45 | POLYPHONY IN POLITICS | Elise A Kramer, Susan Gal, James Slotta, Kelda Jamison, Karl F. Swinehart, Chad Nilep, Falina Enriquez, Kathleen C Riley, Adi Grabiner Keinan, Abigail J Rosenthal, Adam Harr, Antonio Jose B da Silva |
| WED 16:00-17:45 | THE THINGS THAT THEY CARRY: SIGNS, SIGNIFICANCE, AND SEMIOSIS ACROSS BORDERS | Lauren R Zentz, Judith M.S. Pine, Chris Taylor, Rodrigo F. Renteria-Valencia, Colleen M Cotter, Anastasia Nylund |
| WED 18:00-19:45 | WHY WE CAN’T ALL JUST GET ALONG: RACE, LANGUAGE, AND MEANING IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION† | Carolyn Rouse, Johnetta Cole, H. Samy Alim, Rogers Smith |
| WED 20:00-21:45 | BODIES CROSSING BOUNDARIES: NEGOTIATING MEANING THROUGH DISCOURSE, EMBODIMENT, AND MATERIALITY | Chris VanderStouwe, Shawn Rachel Warner-Garcia, Charles Goodwin, Katelynn Bishop, Hannah Yates, Rachel Cranfill |
| WED 20:00-21:45 | BEYOND BORDERS AND CROSSINGS: HYBRIDITY AND FLUIDITY IN PHYSICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES | Maisa C. Taha, Sara Goico, Alicia Snyder-Frey, Chantal M Tetreault, Lori Labotka, Haleema Welji |
| WED 20:00-21:45 | THE CIRCULATION OF POLITICS: TEXTUAL PRACTICE, CONNECTIVITIES AND CROSSINGS | Jessica Greenberg, Alejandro Paz, Thomas Blom Hansen, Miyako Inoue, Matthew Hull, Francis P Cody, Susan Gal |
| WED 20:00-21:45 | LANGUAGE, PLACE AND THE (DE)CONSTRUCTION OF BORDERS | Shontael Marie Wanjema, Leslie C Moore, Elsie Rockwell, Marcia Elizabeth Farr, M. Sidury Christiansen |
| THR 8:00-9:45 | CONSTRUCTING AND ERASING BORDERS: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY AT CROSSROADS | Meghan Farley Webb, Jane F Mitsch, Judith M.S. Pine, Juan R. Valdez, Michael Douglas Furman, Seth Schermerhorn |
| THR 8:00-9:45 | INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF SCHOOL-COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCES OF EDUCATION* | Cristina L Ortiz, Linda Williamson Nelson, Jessica R Walton, Yin Paradies, Naomi Priest, Eleanor Wertheim, Elizabeth Freeman, Margot Trinder, Elizabeth Waters, Kate T Anderson, Porfirio M Loeza |
| THR 10:15-12:00 | CREATIVITY ACROSS SEMIOTIC BORDERS | Eitan Y Wilf, Keith M Murphy, Steven P Black, Bruce Mannheim, Laura M Ahearn, Alessandro Duranti, Rebecca Pardo |
| THR 10:15-12:00 | MEDIATING BOUNDARIES, MEDIATING POSSIBILITIES: LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY | Rachel George, Jan David Hauck, Rachel Flamenbaum, Janet S McIntosh, Daniella DeLea, Lourdes de Leon |
| THR 10:15-12:00 | ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF THE BORDERLANDS: BETWEEN AND AMONG AUTHENTICITIES‡ | James M Wilce, Karl Aspelund, Charles Lindholm, Janina Fenigsen, Ignasi Clemente, Jan Blommaert, Piia Varis, Muhammad Nabil Zuberi |
| THR 12:15-13:30 | USES OF HISTORY IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY PANEL DISCUSSION | Leila Monaghan, Michael Silverstein, Harriet E Klein, Richard J Senghas |
| THR 13:45-15:30 | HAPTIC TRAILS TO YOU: LANGUAGE AND TOUCH WITHIN THE INTERACTIVE SENSORIUM | Marjorie H Goodwin, Christopher R Engelke, Eton Churchill, Charles Goodwin, Ast Cekaite, Jason Throop |
| THR 13:45-15:30 | ANXIETY, INSECURITY, AND BORDER CROSSING: LANGUAGE CONTACT IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD | Mie Hiramoto, Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Kira Hall, So Hee Bae, Gavin Furukawa, Yurni Irwati Said-Sirhan, Shuang Gao |
| THR 13:45-15:30 | GLOBAL/IZING ENGLISHES: TALK AND TRANSLATION | Jenna Kim, Michael Prentice, Atsuko Oyama, Amanda Terc, Elizabeth H Boner, Toshiaki Furukawa, Matthew T. Prior |
| THR 16:00-17:45 | LANGUAGES OF DEMOCRACY: VOICE, REGISTER AND THE VERNACULARIZATION OF DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE | Elina I Hartikainen, Andrew P Graan, Aaron M Ansell, Asif Agha, Debra Spitulnik Vidali, Mark Allen Peterson |
| THR 16:00-17:45 | RECONCEPTUALIZING ENDANGERED LANGUAGE “COMMUNITIES:” BOUNDARY-CROSSING AND -CREATION | Netta R Avineri, Paul V Kroskrity, James Collins, Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Angela M. Nonaka, Jocelyn C. Ahlers, Barbra A Meek |
| THR 16:00-17:45 | SOCIETY FOR LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY POSTER SESSION | Brenna Traynor, Rebecca Campbell |
| THR 16:00-17:45 | LAW, LANGUAGE, AND SUBJECTIVITY** | Catherine Buerger, Robin H Conley, Anna Offit, John M Conley, Imran Khundkar |
| THR 19:30-21:00 | SOCIETY FOR LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY PRESIDENTIAL PANEL: FRONTIERS IN METHODOLOGY IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY | Diane Riskedahl, Barbra A Meek, Susan U Philips, Marjorie H Goodwin, Brendan H. O’Connor, Deborah Tannen, Charles Goodwin |
| FRI 8:00-11:45 | MEDIATED BOUNDARIES: LANGUAGE AND ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE INTERNET AGE | Becky |