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Discourse Lab Schedule

 

Winter 2012

 

January 11

4:00  Teruko Mitsuhara (Anthropology, UCLA) Narrative Practices in the Hare Krishna Community in Los Angeles. "Creating a Devotee Self: Working Under the Modes of Material Nature"

 

January 18  

4:00 Daniela Veronesi (CLIC Visiting Scholar, Free University of Bozen-Balzano) "Analyzing Interaction in Music Settings: the case of exolingual music workshops"

5:00 Jennifer Jackson (Anthropology, UCLA) "Designing a Job Application"

 

January 25  

4:00 Afaf Nash (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "'When I open the door to my parents' house, I enter a whole new world': Sociopolitical Context of Language Brokering among Arab-American Youth"

5:00 Eton Churchill (CLIC Visiting Scholar, Kanagawa University) "Coordinated Enactments and Imported Action in Skill Learning"

 

February 1  

4:00 Heather Loyd (Anthropology, UCLA) TBA

5:00 Gail Fox Adams (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) TBA

 

February 8  

4:00 Cecilia Wadensjo (CLIC Visiting Scholar, Stockholm University) TBA

5:00 Pierre Schmitt (CLIC Visitor, EHESS) "From Theater to Ritual and Back: a Revisited (Hi)Story of Social Sciences starring (including?) Erving Goffman, Victor Turner, Richard Schechner, Peter Brook, Howard Becker and Clifford Geertz"

 

February 15  

4:00 Ann-Carita Evaldsson (CLIC Visiting Scholar, Uppsala University) "Stance taking, peer group participation and everyday language use across multilingual communities"

5:00 Mick Smith (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) TBA

 

February 22  

4:00 Ali Reza Majlesi (CLIC Visiting Scholar, Linkoping University) TBA

5:00 Lisa Thorne (Anthropology, UCLA) TBA

 

February 29  

No discourse lab due to CLIC Talk from Dr. Galina Bolden, Rutgers University. Title TBA

5-7 PM in Haines Reading Room 352

 

March 7  

4:00 Jeremy Kelley (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) TBA

5:00 Lila Steinberg (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) TBA

 

March 14  

4:00 Kristiana Willsey (Indiana University) TBA

5:00 Julien Rentz (University of Stasbourg, France) TBA

 

Fall 2011

 
September 28

4:00  Opening discourse lab following Anthropology Department reception in Haines Reading Room 352

 

October 5

No discourse lab due to CLIC Talk from Dr. Michael Lambek, University of Toronto. "Ethical Personhood as a Function of Language: Ordinary Entailments and Privileged Release." 5-7 PM in Haines Reading Room 352

 

October 12  

4:00 Netta Avineri (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "Post-Presentation Question-Response Sequences as a Site for Academy-Community 'Translation'"

5:00 Amy Garey (Anthropology, UCLA) "Ask the Dead: Accessing the Intangible in Social Science"

 

October 19  

4:00  Iris Nomikou (CLIC visitor) "Language Does Something: Body Action and Language in Maternal Input to Three-Month Olds"

5:00  Jan Hauck (Anthropology, UCLA) "Purification and Hybridization in Paraguayan Linguistic Politics"

 

October 26  

4:00  Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) "The Dys-Embodied Voice: Disability and the Conspicuous Voice"

5:00  Anna Corwin (Anthropology, UCLA) "Thinking Through Silence in Communication with the Divine"

 

November 2  

No discourse lab due to CLIC Talk from Dr. Janet McIntosh, Brandeis University, 5-7 PM in Haines 352

 

November 9  

4:00  Rachel George (Anthropology, UCLA) "'Write Like You Speak': The Shifting Meaning of Orthographic Choice Among Serbian Youth"

5:00  Jennifer Guzmàn (Anthropology, UCLA) "When Illness Accounts Fall Apart: Accusations and Accountability in Pediatric Primary Care Consultations"

 

November 16 

No discourse lab due to meetings of the American Anthropological Association

 

November 23 

No discourse lab due to Thanksgiving holiday

 

November 30  

4:00 Pierre Schmitt (CLIC Visitor). TBA.

5:00 Rachel Flamenbaum (Anthropology, UCLA). TBA

 

PREVIOUS DISCOURSE LAB PRESENTATIONS:

 

SPRING 2011

 

March 30  

4:00  Hadi Nicholas Deeb (Anthropology, UCLA) "Bodies of Law: Regrounding Reason and Mind in the Interactionally Situated Legal Subject"

5:00  Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA) "Living with the Decision that Someone will Die: Empathy in Texas Death Penalty Trials"

 

April 6

No discourse lab due to CLIC Talk with Dr. Mardi Kidwell at 5-7 PM in Haines Reading Room 352

April 13

4:00   Keziah Conrad (Anthropology, UCLA) "Loving Your Enemies: Subjectivity and Relationship in  Mixed-Ethnicity Families in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina"

5:00   Gail Fox Adams (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "Mobilizing Response: Communicative Practices During Play-based Therapy for a Boy with Non-verbal Autism"

April 20

 4:00  Brian Due (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) (CLIC Visiting Scholar) "Idea Development as      Multimodal Action: The Case of a Three-part Structure"

 5:00  Barbara Gotsch (Vienna University, Austria) (CLIC Visiting Scholar) "'Theory of Mind" at Work"

APRIL 27

 No discourse lab due to CLIC Talk with Dr. Harris Berger at 5-7 PM in Haines Reading Room 352

May 4

 4:00  Akira Takada (Kyoto University, Japan) "Some Features of Directive Sequence in Japanese          
          Caregiver-Child Interactions"  
 5:00  Michie Takada (Tokyo Medical University) (CLIC Visiting Scholars) "Telling 'Bad News' in        
          Emergency Situation: Conversation Analysis on Talk Between Doctors and Patient's Families at
          Japanese Emergency Room"

May 11

4:00   Sonya Pritzker (Anthropology, UCLA) "Participation, Evidence, and Authority in the Translation  of Chinese Medicine"

5:00   Steven Black (UCLA/UCSD) "Improvisation as a Model for the Anthropology of the Everyday"

May 18

4:00   Netta Avineri (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) ""Not Really Nostalgia 'cause I didn't have it the first
          time': A Person-Centered Approach to Yiddish as a Heritage Language"
5:00  
Joerg Dinkelaker (Goethe University, Germany) (CLIC Visiting Scholar) "Social Organization of
          Attention in German Adult Classroom Interation"


May 25

4:00   Julien Clement "Interactions and Body Techniques: What is at Play in the Rugby of Samoa?"  

5:00   Joerg Zinken (University of Portsmouth, UK) (CLIC Visiting Scholar) "Object Request Sequences in British, Polish, and 'mixed' families"

June 1

4:00  Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) "Experiened Agency in the Expanded Center of Orientation" 

5:00  Eton Churchill (Kanagawa University, Japan) (CLIC Visiting Scholar) "Transforming Affordances at the Potter's Wheel"


WINTER 2011

 

JANUARY  5

4:00  Discussion of the recent AAA changes to the mission statement and the potential ramifications for anthropological study

 

January 12

4:00  Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) "Pronouns in Chilean Medical Interaction" 

5:00  Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA) "Empathy and its Limit in Courtroom Intreaction"


JANUARY 19

 7:00  No Ling Lab due to Rob Boyd's Cotsen Institute "Friends of Anthropology" Lecture
          "How Culture Transformed Human Revolution", Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum   

JANUARY 26

 4:00 No discourse lab due to Anthropology Job Talk 

 

FEBRUARY 2

 2:00 No discourse lab due to Anthropology Job Talk 

 

FEBRUARY 9

 2:00 No discourse lab due to Anthropology Job Talk

 

FEBRUARY 16

 4:00 No discourse lab due to Anthropology Job Talk

 

FEBRUARY 23

4:00 No discourse lab due to Anthropology Job Talk

 

March 2

4:00  Netta Avineri (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "Unless bubbes, zaidies and alter kochers (grumpy old                men) keep teaching us Yiddish words, they might be lost to the dreck (garbage) forever: Yiddish                Endangerment as Interactional Reality and Discursive Strategy"
5:00  Alethea Marti (Anthropology, UCLA) "De Todo Un Poco" (a little bit of everything): Balancing the           Household, Running the Family Store, and Socializing Children in Chiapas, Mexico"


March 9

4:00  Katie Hale (Anthropology, UCLA) "'Informational Terrains' in Psychiatric Interviews: Reported Speech and Thought as Past Medical 'Evidence', Tool for Present Alignment, and Narrated Problem-solving for the Future"

5:00  Kristiana Willsey (Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana) "Speaking Silences: Disruption and                Disfluency in Veteran's Narratives"

Fall 2010

 

October 29

4:00  Meet and greet 

 

October 6

No discourse lab - CLIC Talk by Stephen C. Levinson "Action in Interaction" 4 PM on Thursday, October 7 in 306 Royce Hall 

 

October 13

4:00 Discussion of Francis Cody's American Anthropologist article "Linguistic Anthropology at the End of the Naughts: Review of 2009"

5:00  Progress and Problem-solving

 

October 20

4:00 Chi-hua Hsiao (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "Linguistic and Cultural Translation of U.S. Television Comedies in Chinese Sub-title Groups, Mainland China"

5:00  Sonya Pritzker (Anthropology, UCLA) "Moving the Blood: Circulation Knowledge about Chinese and 'Western' Medicine in Talk about the Body" 

October 27

5:00  No discourse lab - CLIC Talk by Clare MacMartin (University of Guelph) "Treating Animals as if They Have Spoken: Empathic I Know in Veterinarians' Pet-Directed Talk" in 352 Haines Hall

 

November 3

4:00 Oskar Lindwall (CLIC Visiting Scholar; University of Gothenburg, Sweden) "Instruction, Inscription, and Imitation in Learning How to Crochet"

5:00 Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) "Vulnerable Tellership Rights and the Epistemics of Illness Stories in Mapuche Healer Consultations" 

 

November 10

4:00 Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA) "Empathy and Objectivity in Jurors' Death Penalty Decisions" 

 

November 17

No discourse lab - AAA Meetings, New Orleans, LA

 

November 24

No discourse lab - Holiday weekend 

December 1

4:00  Hadi Deeb (Anthropology, UCLA) "Interactional Properties of Intellectual Property: Authorship, Authenticity, and Copyright in Hollywood's New Media Age" 

5:00  Netta Avineri (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "Embodied Stance Displays Toward Lexical Alternatives in Secular Yiddish Classrooms: A  Central Socialization Practice within the Yiddish Metalinguistic Community"

Spring 2010

 

March 31

4:00  Progress and Problem-Solving

 

April 7

5:00  CLIC Speaker Eric Livingston (University of New England, Australia) "The Jurassic Technologies of Domain Specific Reasoning"

 

April 14

4:00 Seza Dogruoz (Linguistics, UCSB) "Synchronic Variation in Bilingual and Monolingual Spoken Turkish"

 

April 21

5:00 CLIC Speaker Webb Keane (University of Michigan) "Indexing Voice: A Morality Tale" 

April 28

4:00  Katie Hale (Anthropology, UCLA) "Transmission and Neurotransmitters: Causal Inferences about Depression and its Treatment"

5:00  Tanya Romaniuk (York University; CLIC Visiting Affiliate) "Embodied Interactional Resistance in Broadcast News Interviews"

 

May 5

No Discourse Lab in preparation for 16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

 

May 12

4:30 Progress and Problem Solving: Multimedia data - using video and audio in presentations, teaching, and articles

5:00 Marianna Chodorowska-Pilch (Slavic Language and Cultures, UCLA; Spanish and Portuguese, USC) "Understanding  Spanish: The Influence of the Catholic Calendar"

 

May 19

4:00  Anna Corwin (Anthropology, UCLA), Alessandro Duranti (Anthropology, UCLA), Jessica Hardin (Brandeis University) "Samoan Prayer"

 

May 26

4:00  Anna Corwin (Anthropology, UCLA) "Prayer and Care: Dissertation Research on Social and Spiritual Support among Elderly Nuns"

5:00  Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) "Mapuche Healing Consultations: The Shape of the Activity" 

June 2

4:00  Steve Black (Anthropology, UCLA) "Facing the Other: Xenophobia, HIV, and isiZulu Click Consonants"

5:00 Patricia Lange  (Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC)  "Ranting on Video: Analysis of a Genre"

Winter 2010

 

January 6

4:00  Hadi N. Deeb (Anthropology, UCLA) and George Marcus (Anthropology, UC Irvine) "Linguistic Analysis as Informant Bait in an Experiment with Para-Ethnography at the WTO"

 

January 13

4:00  Chi-hua Hsiao (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "The Treatment of Empathy in Chinese-language Narratives"

5:00  Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) "Immoral Technique: Disability by Design"

 

January 20

5:00 CLIC Speaker Richard Senghas (Anthropology and Linguistics, Sonoma State University) "Fragile Emergent Languages: Nicaraguan Sign Language as an Example of a New Classification of Language Endangerment"

 

January 27

No Discourse Lab. There will be a Department of Anthropology job talk.

February 3 (note: later start time) 

5:00  Steve Black (Anthropology, UCLA) "Narrative (Re)constructions of Choral Performance among isiZulu/English Speakers with HIV"

6:00  Erin Debenport (University of Chicago) "'Listen So You Can Live Life the Way It's Supposed to Be Lived': Paradoxes of Text, Secrecy, and Language in a New Mexico Pueblo"

 

February 10

4:00  Tanya Romaniuk (CLIC visiting affiliate; York University, Toronto) "'Lost in a Blizzard of Words': Pursuing Questions in Broadcast Talk"

5:00  Heather Loyd (Anthropology, UCLA) "Girls' Use of Indirectness and Insult in Conflict Talk in the Quartieri Spagnoli, Naples"

 

February 17

CLIC Speaker Graham Jones (Princeton University) "But Where Can the Magic Hide Itself?: Hypothetical Reported Speech in the Training of Entertainment Magicians"

 

February 24

4:00  Valelia Muni Toke (CLIC visiting scholar; CNRS, France - Laboratoire d'Histoire des Théories Linguistiques) "The Notion of Native Speaker: When a Scientific Dissensus Becomes a Legal Issue" 

5:00  Influences and Intellectual History + Progress and Problem Solving

 

March 3

4:00  Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) "What's Going On with Your Little One?: Establishing the Reason for the Visit in Biomedical and Traditional Healing Encounters in Southern Chile"

5:00  Merav Shohet (Anthropology, UCLA)

March 10

4:00  Eve Tulbert (Anthropology, UCLA) "Street Science/Doctor Science: Youth Reasoning about HIV/AIDS in a Media-based Intervention Program"

5:00 Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) "Success Stories: Selling the Subjunctive"

Fall 2009

 

September 30 Please Note, on this date, we will begin at 4:30pm

 

October 7

No Discourse Lab.  There will be a CLIC talk by Paul Drew.

 

October 14

No Discourse Lab.  There will be a CLIC talk by Betsy Rymes.

 

October 21

4:00  TBA

5:00 Mara Buchbinder (Anthropology UCLA) "Personhood Diagnostics: Clinical Explanatory Models and the Making of the Responsible Patient"

 

October 28

4:00 Rachel George (Anthropology UCLA)

5:00 Saeid Atoofi (Applied Linguistics UCLA) "Classroom has a heart: Teachers' and students' affective practices in a Persian heritage language classroom in Los Angeles"

 

November 4 

4:00-6:00 Michelle Back (Department of Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside)

 

November 11 

No Discourse Lab (Veterans Day Holiday)

 

November 18

4:00 Steve Black (Anthropology UCLA) "Stigmatization, Globalization,  and Agency in Language and Music"

5:00 Merav Shohet (Anthropology UCLA)

 

November 25

No Discourse Lab

 

December 2 

No Discourse Lab  (AAA meetings in Philadelphia)

Spring 2009

 

April 1 - Please note, on April1, we will be meeting in Haines 352

4:00 Susan Philips (University of Arizona) The Comparison of Higher and Lower Levels of Lexical Honorification in Tongan Discourse.

 

April 8

4:00 Lizzie Falconi (Anthropology, University of Michigan)

5:00 Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA)

 

April 15

4:00 Michael Smith (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Exploring the use of Moral Categories in Frontotemporal Dementia

5:00 Bill Schneidewind (NELC, UCLA) Spelling, Script Choice, and "National" Language: Problems in the Emergence of Classical Hebrew

 

April 22  

No Discourse Lab.  There will be a CLIC talk by John Haviland (Anthropology, UC San Diego) Meta-Iconic Regimentation: Portability and two clines of semiotic motivation in a emerging manual communication system in a Mayan community

 

April 29

4:00 Sonya Pritzker (Anthropology, UCLA) Rheum for Interpretation: Learning the language of Chinese Medicine in an American classroom

5:00 Eve Tulbert (Anthropology, UCLA) Re-signifying Risk: Participatory Media and HIV Prevention

 

May 6  

No Discourse Lab.  There will be a CLIC talk by Lorenza Mondada (ICAR research lab, CNRS & University of Lyon) Space descriptions in professional interactions: a sequential and multimodal approach

 

May 13

4:00 Margret Selting (CLIC Visiting Scholar; Univeristy of Potsdam, Germany) Emotive Involvement in Conversational Storytelling: Presentation of a Project of the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at the FU of Berlin.

5:00 Merav Shohet (Anthropology, UCLA) Text Artifacts and the Moral Imaginary in Achieving the "Good Death" of a Son in Central Vietnam

 

May 20

4:00 Martina de Falco (CLIC Visiting Affiliate; Universita degli studi di Salerno, Italy)

5:00 Heather Loyd (Anthropology, UCLA) Aesthetics and Cognition in the "City of Theater": Problem-solving and morality in girls' peer groups in inner city Napoli

 

May 27

4:00 Hadi N. Deeb (Anthropology, UCLA) "Doesn't this really just boil down to use of the 'M' word?": How Lawyers and Judges Construct Law Together During California Supreme Court Oral Arguments about Marriage and Equal Protection

5:00 Marco Marzano (Universita di Bergamo, Italy) "Normalization" as resistance strategy to stigmatization of cancer patients in Italy

 

June 3

4:00 Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) Designing for Disability: The Moral Mechanics of Engineering Empathy

5:00 Steve Black (Anthropology, UCLA) Semiotic resources for intersubjectivity: psychocultural support through joking and singing about HIV

 

Winter 2009


January 21

4:00 Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) Surveillance and Accountability in Mapuche Children's Well-Baby Pediatric Appointments   

5:00 Merav Shohet (Anthropology, UCLA) Indexing Sacrifice and Respect through Language and Interaction in Central Vietnam  


January 28

4:00 Alessandro Duranti (Anthropology, UCLA) The Relevance of Husserl's Phenomenological Approach to Language Socialization  


February 11

4:00 Steve Black (Anthropology, UCLA) "Where's My Pith Helmet When I Need It? Or, Doing Post-Colonial Linguistic Anthropology in the 21st Century"  

5:00 Rachel George (Anthropology, UCLA) "'Work It Into Your Life Somehow': Socializing Citizen Engagement in Dual-Earner Los Angeles Families"


February 18

4:00 Ekaterina Moore (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) "Use of Directives in Russian Preschool"

5:00 Jonas Ivarsson (CLIC Visiting Scholar; University of Gothenburg) "Infrastructure of Prospective Vision: Architectural Knowledge and the Tools  of the Trade"

February 25

4:00  Marco Jacquemet (Communication Studies, University of San Francisco) "Transidiomatic Crosstalk: Communicative Hierarchy in Asylum Hearings"

March 4

4:00 Gema Campos (CLIC Visiting Affiliate; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) "Getting into the Spanish Welfare System"

5:00 Anna Corwin (Anthropology, UCLA) "Shifting Linguistic Practices and the Transformation of God in Catholic Convents Following Vatican II"


March 11

4:00 Jena Lichtenstein (Anthropology, UCLA) "Retheorizing Fishman's 'Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness'"

5:00 Gema Campos (CLIC Visiting Affiliate; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) "Aging out of 'Out of Home' Care: Life Stories after Foster Care"


Fall 2008


October 8

4:00 Jena Barchas Lichtenstein (Anthropology, UCLA) "I Can't Eat with a Spoon, They Said": City People, Country People, and Discourses of Food in Mexico  

5:00 Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA) Constructing Dangerous Persons: Subjectivities, Juries, and the State in Texas Death Penalty Trials  


October 15

4:00 Lisa Newon (Anthropology, UCLA) So Basically What We Need to Do: A Linguistic Ethnography of Expert/Novice Player Interactions in an MMORPG Community of Practice  

5:00 Anna Corwin (Anthropology, UCLA) Aging, Prayer, and the Body in Two Catholic Convents  


October 22

4:00 Rachel George (Anthropology, UCLA) Belgrade, Bologna, and South Central: Apprenticeship in Cooking Across Language Barriers  

5:00 Lauren Mason (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Protecting and Serving Outcast Communities: Performance, Performativity, and Style in Chicana/o Teatro  


October 29

4:00 Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) Advice-giving in Mapuche Children's Medical Check-ups  

5:00 Sonya Pritzker (Anthropology, UCLA)  Becoming Chinese Medicine: Ideologies of Language and Experience in U.S. Chinese Medical Education


November 12

4:00 Valentina Pagliai (UCLA and Remarque Institute at NYU) The Use of Non-alignment in Withholding Agreement from Racist Stances  

5:00 Leelo Keevallik (CLIC Visiting Scholar; Uppsala University, Sweden) Re-enactments in Dance Instruction


December 3

4:00 Ana Ostermann (CLIC Visiting Scholar) "It's Not Easy To Be a Woman, Is It?": Constructions of Female Identities in Gynecological and Obstetric Consultations in the Public Health System in Brazil  

5:00 Marzia Saglietti (CLIC Visiting Affiliate) Interactions in Group Homes: Dinnertimes in Three Different Italian Communities  


Spring 2008


April 9

4:00 Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) Temporalization Cues: What Children with Severe Autism Can Teach Us about the Organization of Intersubjectivity  

5:00 Inmaculada García Sanchez (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Language Ideologies in Arabic Heritage Language Education  


April 23

4:00 Priscila Faulhaber Barbosa (Goeldi Museum, Brazil) Intellectual Division of Labor in the Production of the Handbook of South American Indians: An Artifact of Anthropology's Response to the War Emergency (1938-1948)  

     

April 30

4:00  Paul Kroskrity (Anthropology, UCLA) Language Renewal Efforts as Sites of Language Ideological Struggle: The Need for "Ideological Clarification"  

May 7

4:00  Jennifer Guzmán (Anthropology, UCLA) Mapuche Interlocutors: A Historical Perspective on Linguistic Intermediaries 

   

May 14

4:00  Zohar Kampf (CLIC Visitor; Hebrew University) Journalists as Actors in Social Dramas of Apology 

   

May 21

4:00  Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA) How Capital Juries Interpret Future Danger: A Case Study from Texas 

 
May 28

4:00  Mara Buchbinder (Anthropology, UCLA) Normal Babies? Communicating Uncertain Developmental Trajectories in Pediatric Genetic Disorders 

  

June 4

4:00  Eve Tulbert (Anthropology, UCLA) La Llorona Plays Soccer: Children, Place, and Narrative in Tijuana's Municipal Dump

5:00  Lourdes de León (CLIC Visiting Scholar, CIESAS, México) The Boogie Man is Coming: Directives, Participation, and Affect in the Socialization of a Mayan Toddler 


Winter 2008


January 16

4:00 Viewing and discussion of "Borat"


January 30

4:00 Leelo Keevalik (CLIC visitor; Uppsala University, Sweden) Language in Interaction in the Swedish Estonian Refugee Community  

5:00 Ignasi Clemente (UCLA)  Talk Isn't Easy: The Social Worlds of Chronically Ill Children


February 6

4:00 Robin Conley (Anthropology, UCLA) Discourses of Death: Investigating Capital Juries

 

February 13

4:00 Rachel George (Anthropology, UCLA)  Performing Justice: Language, Identity, and Authority in Supreme Court Decisions


March 5

4:30 Dawn Prince-Hughes (Western Washington University) Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism 

6:00 Leonardo Menegola (Università di Milano-Bicocca) Improvisational Interactions in Music Therapy: Models of Meaning and Efficacy in Therapeutic and Educational Settings 



Fall 2007

 

October 10

4:00 Keith Murphy (Anthropology, UCLA)  Designers, Democracy, and the Production of Style in Sweden

5:00 Inma García Sanchez (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Multiple Worlds, Multiple Languages: The Lives of Moroccan Immigrant Children in Spain

 

October 17

4:00 Clint Humphrey (Anthropology, UCLA) Narrative Negotiations of Decompression Sickness and Modernity Among Commercial Lobster Divers of Corn Island, Nicaragua

5:00 Suzanne Wertheim (Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology, UCLA) Context, Positionality, and Form

 

October 24

4:00 Anna Corwin (Anthropology, UCLA) The Linguistic Construction of Gender among Gender Variant Individuals

5:00 Lourdes de León (CIESAS, Mexico; UCMexus Visiting Scholar) Referential Alignment and the Socialization of Attention in Zinacantec Mayan Infants

 

October 31

4:00 Cre Engelke (Anthropology, UCLA) Timing in Competency: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Children with Severe Autism

5:00 Alethea Marti (Anthropology, UCLA) Negotiation of Assessments among Zinacantec Maya Adolescents

 

November 7

4:00 Inma Garc’a Sanchez (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Becoming Translators of Culture: Moroccan Immigrant Children as Language Brokers

4:30 Ellen Sharp and Kristin Yarris (Anthropology, UCLA) "¿Por Qué Ando Con Todo Esto Yo?": Troubles in the Ethnographic Encounter

There is no 5:00 speaker on this date