 MICHICAGO 2006
MAY 12-13, CHICAGO
"LANGUAGE TRUST"
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: THEODORE PORTER
FRIDAY MAY 13TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
- PANEL I: EVIDENCE OF TRUST
- PANEL II: CREDIBILITY AND CULTURE (with a capital C)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THEODORE PORTER, HISTORY, UCLA
"Scientific Precision and the Shaping of Public Reason"
SATURDAY MAY 14TH: MORNING SESSION
- PANEL III: CONTROLLING CODES, COHERING CATEGORIES
- PANEL IV: DISTRUST AND DEVELOPMENT
SATURDAY MAY 14TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
- PANEL V: TRUST IN TRADITION
- PANEL VI: REGIMES OF TRUST
EMERGENT THEMES OPEN FORUM
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FRIDAY MAY 13TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL I: EVIDENCE OF TRUST
Anna M. Babel (Michigan)
The things that nobodies tell us: Evidentiality and social meaning in Valley Spanish
Marco Shappeck (Michigan)
Codeswitching as interdiscursive practice: The case of cigarillos in Cusco
Erik Levin (Chicago)
Symbolic domination and the semiotics of the Aymara speech act
Kenneth McGill (Chicago)
What "tells" tell: Truth, trust and time...pragmatically
John Lucy, Discussant
PANEL II: CREDIBILITY AND CULTURE (with a capital C)
Stephen K. Scott (Chicago)
Trusty spit: Culturing microscopy in Bolivian tuberculosis control
Elina Hartikainen (Chicago)
The "Nigerian scam": Easy money on the Internet, but for whom?
Kathryn Graber (Michigan)
Back to the (Buryat) land: Negotiating authenticity in Siberian aural modes
Susanne Unger (Michigan)
How can you tell an Indian when you see one? Investigating the semiotics of Native Americans' representation in early silent film
Susan U. Philips, Discussant
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Theodore Porter (History, UCLA)
Scientific precision and the shaping of public reason
SATURDAY MAY 13 MORNING SESSION
PANEL III: CONTROLLING CODES
Erika Alpert (Michigan)
Word coinage and constructed languages in a sexual minority community
Erika Hoffman (Michigan)
Signs and scripts: writing sign languages
Alexander Reusing (Chicago)
"Deviant" language in early modern England: the ideology of social categories
Abigail Rosenthal (Chicago)
Building a deaf utopia: Trusting the power of architectural and language communities
Robin Queen, Discussant
PANEL IV: DISTRUST AND DEVELOPMENT
Aaron Ansell (Chicago)
Seasons of suspicion: Elections and social welfare in Northeast Brazil
Jonathon Larson (Michigan)
The politics of literature and the politics in literature: The production of distrust in Slovak classrooms
Cecily K. Dennis (Michigan)
Exploring Africa's dark side: Western discourses of death, disease and famine in Keith Richburg's Out of America
Judith T. Irvine, Discussant
SATURDAY MAY 13 AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL V: TRUST IN TRADITION
Courtney Handman (Chicago)
The morality of "kastom" (custom) and the history of missionization in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea
Elif Yalabik (Chicago)
Need an "other" text? A proposal for a study on the language of "translation" and the practice of "correct reading"among the elites of Turkey
John Thiels (Michigan)
Genred intertwining in the "bilingual nation"-verbal art as strategy and ideology in Paraguay
Urmila Nair (Chicago)
The lives and time of exile Tibetans-A dissertation proposal on temporality, collective karma, and the semiotics of identity formulation
Bruce Mannheim, Discussant
PANEL VI: REGIMES OF TRUST
Katherine Martineau (Chicago)
Property as trust: Language ideologies and survey procedures in early twentieth century Chotanagpur, India
Matthew Kelly (Chicago)
Trust in the word: The legal text-artifact in state history and colonial historiography
Klumbyte Neringa (Michigan)
Power, authority, and trust in post-socialist Lithuania
Karen Smid (Michigan)
Writing lessons: Inscription and judgment in Islamic West Africa
Susan Gal, Discussant
EMERGENT THEMES OPEN FORUM
Anya Bernstein, Molly Callahan, and Michael Silverstein, Moderators
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