Department of AnthropologyMaria Sidorkina (Amherst) ‘The troll: Author or hero of the new culture wars?’
February 8, 2018 - 2:00 - 3:00
Semiotics Workshop
Andrew Carruthers (National University Singapore) ‘Ontological policing’
February 1, 2018 - 2:00 - 3:00
Semiotics Workshop
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas (Emory) "Performing expertise: the mediatization of psychoanalysis in mass media"
January 25, 2018 - 2:00 - 3:30
Semiotics Workshop
Colin Halverson (Vanderbuilt) 'Signs of disease'
January 18, 2018 - 2:00 - 3:30
Semiotics Workshop
Alan Rumsey (Australian National University) 'Children's language leaning, intersubjectivity and sociocultural order'
October 14, 2015 - 1:30 - 3:30
Semiotics Workshop
Ulla Lundqvist (Copenhagen) "The social identification of a "smart student" in an Arabic classroom"
September 25, 2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Lian Madsen and Andreas Staehr (Copenhagen), "Socioeconomic class and social interaction in Urban environments"
June 4, 2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Marshall Knudson (Penn), "On the Chilean model and its discontents"
May 8, 2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Thea Riofrancos (Penn), "Consulta Previa: The political life of a constitutional right"
October 16, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Martha Karrebaek (U Copenhagen), "Troubled relations: Languages, ideologies and political sensitivity in Farsi mother tongue classrooms in Copenhagen, Denmark"
May 1, 2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Eitan Wilf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Corporate business ritual semiosis"
April 24, 2014 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Zane Goebel (La Trobe University), "The creation of semiotically dense stereotypes in Indonesian Soap Operas"
December 4, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Cécile Evers (Penn), "Chronotopes from "un petit paradis": Muslim second-generation youth speak and unspeak Marseille"
November 6, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Andreas Staehr (Copenhagen) "The appropriation of transcultural flows by Copenhagen youth: The case of Illuminati imagery"
September 25, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Tomi Visakko (Helsinki), "Genre and identity: Self-promotion in online dating advertisements"
May 2, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Utpal Sandesara (Penn), "'You can go ahead and tell her that': Participant roles and participation frameworks in an interpreted medical encounter"
April 4, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Diego Arispe-Bazán (Penn), "Solidarity as regularity: Metapragmatics of affect and sociality in the Occupy movement"
March 28, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Michael Silverstein (Chicago), "From Baffin Island to Boasian induction: How anthropology and linguistics got into their interlinear groove"
February 28, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Joanne Baron (Penn), “Classic Maya patron deities: Discourse and materiality”
February 27, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Thea Riofrancos (Penn), “Contesting extraction: State-making, democracy and large-scale mining in Ecuador”
December 13, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Marshall Knudson (Penn), “Democracy, citizenship, and social movements in Chile”
December 6, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Ferhan Taunagur (Rutgers), “Secular vs. religious identity in Turkey”
November 29, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Mariam Durrani (Penn), “Transnational ensembles: South Asian youth in Lahore and New York City”November 1, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Catherine Rhodes (Penn), “Mayan Science curricula and Mayan language revitalization”
October 25, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Maria Sidorkina (Yale), “The new Soviet intelligentsia”
October 18, 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Martha Karrebaek & Lian Madsen (U Copenhagen), "Danish popular culture & education"
October 16, 2012 - 10:00am - 1:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Catherine Rhodes (Penn), “Mayan/Spanish language mixing”
October 11, 2012 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Luke Fleming (Penn), “Anxieties of masculinity and indigeneity in Urban Amazonia”
January 22, 2009 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Kyung-Nan Koh (Penn), “Making claims to ownership & authorship of a model personhood”
January 15, 2009 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Louise Krasniewicz (Penn), "Anthropology goes to the movies"
December 4, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Symposium: Media Group
“Mediatization”: International Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA <<CLICK HERE FOR PANELISTS AND PAPER TITLES>>
November 19, 2008 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Symposium: Media Group
Karl Swinehart (Penn), “Tupac in their veins: Aymara Hip-Hop and the semiotics of urban indigeneity”
November 6, 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Organizational Meeting: Mass Mediated Culture (Faculty Research Group)
October 13, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Symposium: Media Group
“Mass Mediated forms of Personhood”; International Conference, University of Pennsylvania <<CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF PARTICIPANTS>>
July 17, 2008 (All day) - July 18, 2008 (All day)
Symposium: Media Group
Stanton Wortham (Penn), “Homies in the Latino diaspora”
April 17, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Symposium: Media Group
Betsy Rymes (Penn), “The relationship between mass media and classroom discourse”
March 20, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Symposium: Media Group
John Jackson (Penn), “Media and anthropology”
February 21, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Symposium: Media Group
“Beyond Individual & Society: Mass mediated forms of personhood”, AAA panel, Washington DC. <<CLICK HERE FOR PARTICIPANTS & PAPER TITLES>>
November 29, 2007 - 8:00am - 12:00pm
Symposium: Media Group
Liz Erkenbrack (Penn), "Communicative commodity forms: Meaning-making in World of Warcraft"
November 14, 2007 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Hannah Voorhees (Penn), "Indigenousness as historical subjectivity"
November 7, 2007 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Christian Adonizio (Penn), "Therapeutic talk in medical encounters"
October 31, 2007 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Michael Joiner (Penn), "Has gay identity outlived its usefulness?"
October 17, 2007 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Organizational Meeting: Mass Mediated Culture (Faculty Research Group)
October 11, 2007 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Symposium: Media Group
Aram Yardumian (Penn), "Artifacts, ‘memory’ and the Armenian genocide"
October 3, 2007 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Katherine Mortimer (Penn), “Educator perspectives and ideological debate in Paraguayan bilingual education”
April 26, 2006 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Llerena Searle (Penn), “The global meaning of Indian real estate”
April 5, 2006 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Paul Kockelman (Columbia U), "Inalienable possession and personhood"
January 25, 2006 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Semiotics Workshop
Jeremy Pine (Penn), “Nation building in Turkmenistan”
January 19, 2006 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Katherine Mortimer (Penn), “The Guarani language, ethnic identity, and Paraguayan nationalism”
November 23, 2005 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Jill Siegel (Penn), “Corporate social responsibility and the case of Starbucks"
November 16, 2005 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Kirt Mausert (Penn), “Consumption and mass media in Thai youth culture”
October 26, 2005 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Llerena Searle (Penn), “Urban restructuring and the construction industry in India”
October 12, 2005 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Constantine Nakassis (Penn), “Mass media and youth culture in Tamil Nadu, India”
September 28, 2005 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Christine Scheutze (Penn), “Spirit possession in Pentecostal churches in Mozambique”
March 15, 2005 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Tamara Warhol (Penn), “Biblical discourse and Christian Socialization”
February 16, 2005 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Todd Wolfson (Penn), “Citizens as Netizens: Democracy in the electronic age”
January 19, 2005 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Paja Faudree (Penn), “The day of the dead: Poetry, song, and cultural transmission in a Mazatec ritual cycle”
May 8, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Asif Agha (Penn), “Freedom of speech as a discourse of hegemony’
May 1, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
J. J. Errington (Yale U), "Getting Language Rights, Shifting Linguistic Traditions"
April 29, 2003 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Luke Fleming (Penn), "Learning as social process"
April 17, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Laura M. Ahearn (Rutgers U), "Language and Agency in Nepali Love Letters"
April 9, 2003 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Kyung-Nah Koh (Penn), "Corporate discourse and community building"
April 3, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Seran Schug (Penn), "Dance and healing: Authentic movement as therapeutic practice"
March 27, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Jay Dautcher (Penn), "Blogging the Branded Uterus: Some Remarks on Emergent Textuality and the Meta-Poetics of Presence"
March 25, 2003 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Daymon Smith (Penn), “Bureaucracy in Mormonism”
March 6, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Hilary Dick (Penn), "What Do You Do with ‘I Don’t Know’?: Processes of Elicitation in Ethnographic vs. Survey Interviews"
February 26, 2003 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Dan Glotzer (Penn), “Memes as metaphoric genes of ‘cultural’ heredity: Is anything salvageable from this account?”
February 20, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Dan Glotzer (Penn), “Animal communication and the evolution of mind”
February 6, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Kyung-Nan Koh (Penn), “Metaphor in bureaucratic expansion”
January 23, 2003 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Flagg Miller (U Chicago), "Resonant Character: Authorship and the Marking of Circulation in Yemeni Audiocassette Poetry"
January 15, 2003 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Luke Fleming (Penn), ‘From social interaction to cultural history’
December 9, 2002 - 6:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Constantine Nakassis (Penn), ‘Eating disorders’
December 2, 2002 - 6:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Seran Schug (Penn), ‘Dance as a form of healing’
October 28, 2002 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Daymon Smith (Penn), ‘Demonic possession’
October 14, 2002 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Constantine Nakassis (Penn), ‘Peirce on speculative grammar & phenomenology’
September 23, 2002 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Organizational meeting
September 5, 2002 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Seminar (Anth 730)
Douglas J. Glick (Binghamton U), "The Fate of Politeness in Modern Israeli Hebrew: Gender, Ethnicity and the Zionist Legacy"
April 17, 2002 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
David Samper (Penn), "Talking Sheng: Hybridity, language and youth culture in Nairobi, Kenya"
February 12, 2002 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Constantine Nakassis (Penn), "The meaningfulness of eating disorders"
December 11, 2001 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Asif Agha (Penn), "Slang and social persona"
November 27, 2001 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Stanton E. F. Wortham (Penn), "At the intersection of learning, identity development and social reproduction: pivotal moments from one ninth grade class"
October 30, 2001 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Asif Agha (Penn), "Tropes of kinship: Fictive relations and performative realities"
April 3, 2001 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Rebecca Huss-Ashmore (Penn), "Healing talk: Therapeutic narratives and cosmetic surgery"
March 6, 2001 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
David Samuels (U Mass-Amherst), "Redneck Refusals: A Western Apache Pronunciation Guide"
February 13, 2001 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Douglas J. Glick (Hamilton College), "Reading popular culture: The semiotics of a television 'info-mercial' as an electronic site of ritual self-transformation"
November 14, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Matt Tomlinson (Penn), "Light and Darkness, Power and Loss: The Metaculture of Modernity in Rural Fiji"
October 31, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Hilary Dick (Penn), "Sealing the Mexico-U.S. border with words: The metaculture of nation-building in a land of emigrants"
October 17, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Kristina Wirtz (Penn), "Divining the Spirit in the Text: an analysis of narratives about divination in Cuban Santeria"
October 10, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Trevor Stack (Penn), "Discourse Genres and Social Arenas: Public Knowledge in Mexican Towns"
April 4, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Michael Lempert (Penn), Lab training session
March 28, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop
Andrew Schwalm (Penn), "The Secret Examination of Monica Lewinsky: Role-playing Activity & Manipulation in the Lewinsky-Tripp Tapes"
February 29, 2000 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Semiotics Workshop