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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

American Anthropological Association 2009 Annual Meeting

The American Anthropological Association will hold its annual meeting December 2nd through the 6th at the Philadelphia Mariott Downtown hotel in Philadelphia, PA. The theme for the 2009 meeting is "The End/s of Anthropology".

Below is my annual partial list of panels and meetings of interest to linguistic anthropologists, including those sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

There will also be a memorial gathering in honor of Dell Hymes on Saturday from 7:30-9:30pm in Grand Ballroom III of the Courtyard Marriott hotel.

For the full schedule of the annual meeting, see the online program.




Day & TimeTitleParticipants
WED 12:00-1:45 ANALYZING ORAL NARRATIVE Maggie Ronkin, Maris Thompson, Minerva Oropeza, Carolyn Oldham, Lisa Newon
WED 12:00-3:45 DISCOURSE CROSSING: LANGUAGE IN THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION Valentina Pagliai, Alejandro Paz, Michele Koven, Hilary Dick, Anna De Fina, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, Sonia Das, Marco Jacquemet, Sabina Perrino, Amy Shuman, Stef Slembrouck, Monica Heller
WED 12:00-1:45LANGUAGE AND EMBODIED PERFORMANCE Sonya Fix, Joon-Beom Chu, Eric Heller, Aimee Hosemann, Anna Trester, Masako Kato, Sohini Ray
WED 2:00-3:45(POST)COLONIAL LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES IN THE AMERICAS: PRODUCTION, RECEPTION, DECENTERINGJohn Chuchiak, David Tavárez, Alan Durston, Kittiya Lee, Margaret Bender, William Hanks
WED 4:00-5:45GLOBAL ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE Barbara Lemaster, Rezenet Moges, Richard Senghas, Erin Wilkinson, Rachel Emerine, Judith Pine, Carol Erting
WED 4:00-7:45LISTENING TO DISCOURSE AND WAYS OF TELLING STORIES: PAPERS IN HONOUR OF VIRGINIA HYMESDaniel Lefkowitz, Susan Philips, Eve Danziger, Suzanne Scollon, Lise Dobrin, Liliana Perkowski, Judith Berman, Alexander King, Catharine Mason, Robert Moore, Jan Blommaert, Virginia Hymes
WED 6:00-7:45COUNTERING SURVEILLANCE: INTERACTION, LEGITIMATION, AND RESISTANCEBarbara Meek, Inmaculada Garcia Sanchez, Sherina Feliciano-Santos, Christina Davis, Jennifer Reynolds, Marjorie Faulstich, Susan Philips
WED 8:00pm-9:45QUEER LANGUAGES, QUEER NARRATIVESChrista Craven, Marlen Harrison, David Murray, Michelle Marzullo, Nora Madison, L. Zachary Dubois, Susan Woolley, Elizabeth Busbee
WED 8:00pm-9:45TONGUE TIED TERRITORIES AND THE END(S) OF NATIONHOOD: LANGUAGE PURISM AND LANGUAGE POLITICS IN STATELESS NATIONSJoshua Berson, Kathryn Graber, Karl Swinehart, Serafin Coronel-Molina, Krystal Smalls, Shaylih Muehlmann, Suzanne Wertheim
THUR 8:00am-11:45FOODWAYS AND DISCOURSE: TALKING ABOUT FOOD, INTERACTING THROUGH FOODChristine Jourdan, Kathleen Riley, Jocelyn Ahlers, Carolina Izquierdo, Amy Paugh, Marcia Farr, Maria Leon-Garcia, Kevin Tuite, Robert Jarvenpa, Umberto Ansaldo, Anne Meneley
THUR 8:00am-9:45THE END(S) OF LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE AND EDUCATIONAL POLICYSilvia Nogueron, Katherine Mortimer, Katherine Schultz, Rainer Hamel, Elizabeth Phelps, Kimberly Anderson, Larisa Warhol
THUR 1:45-3:30AUTHORITY AND AUTHENTICITY IN DISCOURSE: LINGUISTIC AND OTHER MEDIATIC DIMENSIONSFrancis Cody, Patrick Eisenlohr, Miyako Inoue, Flagg Miller, Amanda Weidman, Dominic Boyer, Paul Manning
THUR 1:45-3:30SLA POSTER SESSIONBen McMahan, Dana Osborne, Peter Taber
THUR 1:45-3:30THE PARODY OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF PARODYCala Zubair, Shlomy Kattan, Lauren Mason Carris, Philip Comeau, Ruth King, Jennifer Sclafani, Jermay Jamsu, Robert Podesva, Angela Reyes
THUR 4:00-5:45REFLEXIVITY, REGISTER, AND THE ENDS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSISKristen Adler, Olga Glinskii, David Dinwoodie, Zane Goebel, Kara Becker, Char Peery, Asif Agha
THUR 4:00-5:45SEMIOTIC APPROACHES TO MASS MEDIATED RACIAL AND RACIST DISCOURSESRiley Snorton, Nicholas Limerick, Rebecca Pardo, Susan McDonic, Bonnie Urciuoli, Stanton Wortham, Basak Can
THUR 4:30-6:00SLA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETINGSLA Executive Board
FRI 8:00am-11:45 LINGUISTIC CITIZENSHIP: IDEOLOGIES OF LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND THE END/S OF THE NATION Jess Weinberg, Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri, Camelia Suleiman, Rudolf Gaudio, Samuel Shapiro, Chelsea Booth, Barbara Meek, Jacqueline Messing, Brendan O'connor, Char Ullman, Anne Whiteside, Chad Nilep, Patricia Buck, Neriko Doerr
FRI 8:00am-11:45SMALL LANGUAGES IN A BIG WORLDJan Blommaert, Christopher Stroud, Cecile Vigouroux, Kasper Juffermans, Massimiliano Spotti, Salikoko Mufwene, Robert Moore, Lawrence Kaplan, Hiroko Ikuta, Lenore Grenoble, Sari Pietikainen, Alexandra Jaffe
FRI 8:00am-11:45THE SENSES IN LANGUAGE AND CULTUREAsifa Majid, Stephen Levinson, N Enfield, Niclas Burenhult, Gunter Senft, Clair Hill, Hilario De Sousa, Lawrence Hirschfeld, Connie De Vos, Shakila Shayan, Ozge Ozturk, Mark Sicoli, Sylvia Tufvesson, Mark Dingemanse, Olivier Le Guen, Penelope Brown, William Hanks
FRI 8:00am-9:45ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY – NEW MEANS, NEW ENDS, NEW TIMESTeresa McCarty, Sheilah Nicholas, Suresh Canagarajah, Rodney Hopson, Perry Gilmore, James Collins, Alexandra Jaffe, Marilyn Martin-Jones, Mary Carol Combs, Norma Gonzalez, Vaidehi Ramanathan, David Johnson, Nancy Hornberger
FRI 12:15-1:30ROUNDTABLE ON COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGYSociety for Linguistic Anthropology
FRI 1:45-3:30RACE AND ... : ARTICULATING LINGUISTIC INTERSECTIONS OF MULTIPLE SOCIAL AXESElaine Chun, H. Samy Alim, Adrienne Lo, Mary Bucholtz, Angela Reyes
FRI 1:45-3:30THE ENDS OF PROSODY: WAYS OF SPEAKING AS IDEOLOGICAL MEANS AND ENDSMark Sicoli, Suzanne Menair, Nicholas Harkness, Andrea Kortenhoven, Matthew Wolfgram, Robin Queen
FRI 6:15-8:30SLA BUSINESS MEETING AND CASH BARSociety for Linguistic Anthropology
SAT 8:00am-9:45USING ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIPRosemary Henze, Michelle Collay, Gilberto Arriaza, Michael Fanning
SAT 8:00am-9:45INTERGENERATIONAL LANGUAGE NEGOTIATIONSWai Fong Chiang, Lyn Fogle, Jaegu Kim, Marc Maddox, Daniel Suslak, Mariann Skahan, Heidi Hamilton
SAT 8:00am-11:45LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY AND WRITING SYSTEMSPatricia Lange, Diane Riskedahl, Jennifer Dickinson, Susan Frekko, Mark Allen Peterson, Laura Miller, Laura Brown, J Kathe Managan, Judith Pine, Thea Strand, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, Joel Kuipers
SAT 10:15-12:00BEYOND MACRO AND MICRO IN THE LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATIONStanton Wortham, Betsy Rymes, Michael Lempert, Doris Warriner, Elena Skapoulli, Mary Bucholtz, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, James Collins
SAT 10:15-12:00THE ENDS OF AMAZONIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE?Maximilian Viatori, Lev Michael, Tania Granadillo, Christopher Ball, Michael Cepek, Luke Fleming, Laura Graham
SAT 1:45-3:30INDIAN LANGUAGES IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: A DISCOURSE-CENTERED APPROACH TO REPRESENTATION, IDEOLOGY, AND POPULAR CULTURES IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICABarbara Meek, Anthony Webster, Erin Debenport, Leighton C. Peterson, Lisa Philips, Wesley Leonard, Paul Kroskrity
SAT 4:00-5:45MEDIA INTERTEXTUALITIES: SEMIOTIC MEDIATION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE Jenna Kim, Adrienne Lo, Joseph Park, Alexander Wahl, Mie Hiramoto, Toshiaki Furukawa, Michelle Lazar, Asif Agha
SAT 4:00-5:45THE ENDS OF ENREGISTERMENT: SHIFTING INDEXES OF IDENTITY AND PLACEJames Wilce, James Wilce, Hyejin Nah, Maeve Eberhardt, Kathryn Remlinger, Kathryn Woolard
SUN 8:00am-9:45 GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITIESAriana Mangual, Steven Black, Nona Moskowitz, Jolanda Lindenberg, Tzu-Kai Liu, James Stanford, Faith Nibbs, Danny Law
SUN 8:00am-9:45LITERACY PROJECTS, PLANNING AND SOCIALIZATIONRonald Kephart, Michael Wroblewski, Esther Schely-Newman, Charis Boutieri, Mary Good, Amir Sharifi, Paja Faudree
SUN 8:00am-9:45 SOCIAL IDENTITIES AT INSTITUTIONAL INTERSECTIONS: CHILDREN, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURAL PATHWAYSIgnasi Clemente, Kathryn Howard, Karen Sirota, Jennifer Reynolds, Paul Garrett
SUN 10:15-12:00DISCOURSE, POLITICS AND STANCEJuan Luis Rodriguez, Jennifer Jackson, Adam Harr, Yuki Tanaka, Katherine Chen, Vineeta Chand
SUN 10:15-12:00LANGUAGE, THE BODY, AND LIVED SPACEInger Mey, Mayumi Bono, Chiho Sunakawa, Marko Monteiro, Elizabeth Keating, N Enfield
SUN 10:15-12:00WORLDS OF LEARNING: ANTHROPOLOGIES OF EDUCATION BEYOND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ZONEKathryn Anderson-Levitt, Silvia Carrasco, Yasuko Minoura, Francesca Gobbo, Christoph Wulf, Patrick Boumard, Ana Maria R. Gomes, Sally Anderson, Margaret Gibson
SUN 10:15-12:00WHAT’S AN INSTITUTION GOOD FOR? (DISCURSIVELY, PRACTICALLY, ETHNOGRAPHICALLY) Lori Donath, Janina Fenigsen, Chaise Ladousa, Rachel Throop, Vanessa Will, Adi Hastings



As always, please feel free to suggest other events via the comments section.

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