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Discourse Lab Schedule

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