Panelists and Titles:

Greg Urban (Penn) 'Semiotic forces at a corporate boundary: A Harley-Davidson revitalization video'

Paja Faudree (Brown) 'Magic plants and intellectual property in the glob al psychedelic trade'

Kartikeya Saboo (Rutgers) 'Teh brutal, forceful REALITY of the Object'

Robert Moore (Penn) 'Colors and the city: Conflilct and qualia in the re-branding of Belfast'

Asif Agha (Penn) Discussant

Alex Jones (Brown) 'Glossolalia and Pentecostal ideologies in the Postcolony'

Nicholas Limerick (Penn) ' Alphabet debates and the politics of reading written Quechua texts in Ecuador'

Coleman Donaldson (Penn) 'Foundational language ideologies in the N'ko literacy movement of West Africa'

Joe Errington (Yale) Discussant

Laura Kunreuther (Bard) ' Seeing face: Tactile seeing and the mediation of presence'

Katy Hardy (Penn) 'Single screen subjects: Class, language and spatial categories in Mumbai'

Assaf Harel (Rutgers) 'Using the Kippah in the West Bank: On semiotic experimentation in ethnographic encounters'

Diego Arispe-Bazan (Penn) 'Positionality as data collection method: Semiotics of reflexivity'

Laura Ahearn (Rutgers) Discussant

Thea Riofrancos (Penn) 'Extracting democracy'

Maria Sidorkina (Yale) 'Contrastive chronotopes of collective belonging in Post-socialist Russia'

Marshall Knudson (Penn) 'On the Chilean model and its discontents'

Becky Schulthies (Rutgers) 'How to creat modern Morrocan citizens through Turath TV and re-registring rhymed prose'

Paul Kockelman (UT-Austin) Discussant

Joanne Baron (Penn) 'Integrating Maya archeology and epigraphy'

Kyle Olspon (Penn) 'The kula of long term loans'

Robert Moore (Penn) Discussant

Hilary Dick (Arcadia) 'The pragmatics of scale in talk of migration and other troubles'

Andrew Caruthers (Yale) 'The semiotics of belonging maong Bugis transnational migrants'

Cecile Evers (Penn) 'Voicing the French perspective on newsly arrived migrants'

Mariam Durrani (Penn) 'Transforming belonging through educational aspirations'

Becky Schulthies (Rutgers) Discussant