 MICHICAGO 2007
MAY 4-5, ANN ARBOR
"DOCUMENTS AND INSTRIPTIONS"
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: VALERIE KIVELSON, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
FRIDAY MAY 4TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
- PANEL I: MODELING CULTURE
- PANEL II: ENTEXTUALIZATION AND DETERRITORIALIZATION
- PANEL III: BAPTISMAL MOMENTS
SATURDAY MAY 5TH: MORNING SESSION
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: VALERIE KIVELSON, HISTORY,
UNIVERSTIY OF MICHIGAN
- PANEL IV: WRITING ON WRITING
SATURDAY MAY 5TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
- PANEL V: DOCUMENTARY SOURCES
- PANEL VI: BODIES AS TEXTS
- PANEL VII: TRANSLATION AND RECONTEXTUALIZATION
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FRIDAY MAY 4TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL I: MODELING CULTURE
Junehui Ahn
Emotional Discourse, Performance and Power in Children's Social Worlds
Courtney Handman
Cultures of Ditation: Christian Models of Culture among the Guhu-Samane, Papua New Guinea
Vaness Will
Blasé and "Blas": Stylistic Variation in the Language of Gaelic-Medium Educated Children
Andrew Babson
Textual Technologies and Ideologies of Social Transformation in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Susan U. Philips, Discussant
PANEL II: ENTEXTUALIZATION AND DETERRITORIALIZATION
Elina Hartikainen
Holocaust Stories and Spiritist Texts in an African Child Spirit's Biography: Re-negotiating the Africanness of Brazilian Candomblé Religion
Elizabeth Falconi
"Immigrants," "Mexicans," "Illegals," and "Wetbacks": The Place of Race, Language and Citizenship in Talk about Immigration Reform
Alejandro Paz
Putting on a Chisme Clinit: Entextualization, Community and Voice among Latinos in Israel
Sonia Das
The "Classics" and the "Moderns": Rethinking Diglossia and Staging Rank among Montreal Tamil Population
Susan Gal, Discussant
PANEL III: BAPTISMAL MOMENTS
Matthew Wolfgram
Telescopy and Synesthesia: Two Forms of Baptismal Practice
Nicholas Harkness
Catch the Fire: Semiotic Evaluation and Models of Circulation in the Sermons of Two Korean Churches
Jonathan DeVore
Trash Talk: A Semiotic of Littering
Karen Hebert
Citations in Circulation: Labeling Alaskan Salmon for Market Exchange
Michal Silverstein, Discussant
SATURDAY MAY 5TH: MORNING SESSION
PANEL IV: WRITING ON WRITING
Jonathan Glasser
Boabdil's Disappearing Tombstone: Patrimony and Alienation in Colonial Algeria
Eli Thorkelson
The Case of the Bad Writing Context: Literary Theory as Commodity and Literary Theorists as Brands
Brook Hefright
"Bi-valency": Literacy Practices among the Bai of Southwest China
Abigail Rosenthal
Lost in Transcription: Writing in and about American Sign Language
Webb Keane, Discussant
SATURDAY MAY 5TH: AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL V: DOCUMENTARY SOURCES
Shu-Li Huang
What Does Evidence Mean?
Sunsuke Nozawa
Waiting for You: War Memory, and Anxious Entextualization of Political Identities in Japanese Intergenerational Discourse
Alexander Reusing
Stereotypes of Roma and Traveler Language Use Across Media
Erika Alpert
Heard But Not Seen: Stylized Gesture and Stylized Language in Japanese Erotic Comics
Barbara Meek, Discussant
PANEL VI: BODIES AS TEXTS
Celia Tomori
Constructing "Normal Birth" in Childbirth Education Classes in the United States
Kathryn Goldfarb
Making "OC for Me": Toward a Pharmaceutical Knowledge Community in Japan
Jessica Lowen
"Calling on the Lover of My Soul": Ritual Language and Divine Visitation in the Sexual Encounters of American Evangelicals
Mandy Terc
The Feelings of War: Phenomenological Experience, Meaning and Violence
Robin Shoaps, Discussant
PANEL VII: TRANSLATION AND RECONTEXTUALIZATION
Christopher Ball
Bible Translation and Territorialization in Central Brazil
Sarah Hillewaert
The "Unbwogable" Kenyan Opposition, Or, How a Language of Refusal Translated in Politics of Refusal in the 2002 Kenyan Election
James Slotta
Road Belong English?: The Multiple ‘Englishes' of the Middle-Waria, Papua New Guinea
John Thiels
Urbanizing Guaraní through Paraguayan Media: Chronotope and Persona
Robin Queen, Discussant
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