<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Hi All,</span></font></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Apologies for cross-posting, but please find our CFP for AAA 2018 below. Looking forward to working with you.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Thanks,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Jessica</font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br>
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Call
for Papers: AAA Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA; November 14-18, 2018<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Session
Title: <b>The Role of Language and Class in
Legal Identity Formations</b><span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Co-organizers:
Nathan Madson and Jessica López-Espino (New York University)<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Please
send your proposed abstract (max 250 words), along with affiliation, current
status, and contact information to Nathan Madson (</span><a href="mailto:nhm248@nyu.edu)" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>nhm248@nyu.edu)</span></a><span> and Jessica Lopez-Espino (</span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:jsl610@nyu.edu">jsl610@nyu.edu</a></span><span>) by <b><u>March 26, 2018 3PM EST</u></b><u>.</u><span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Our
proposed panel for the 2018 AAA Annual Meeting is focused on the role of
language and class in shaping the resistance, resilience, and adaptation of
actors within legal systems. We are particularly interested in exploring the
ways in which class and linguistic practices shape legal identities from
expatriate communities (Beaverstock 2002, 2011; Hindman 2013; Fechter 2007; Ong
2007), migrant and working-class litigants in bilingual and heritage language
settings (Coutin 2000; Ng 2009; Richland 2008), and other transnational and
multilingual actors in local and international legal settings. Class and
language use can dictate how individuals are recognized and move through legal
systems (Conley and O’Barr 1990; Merry 1990; Phillips 1998). From a more macroscopic
perspective, which classes and/or linguistic groups enact law? How do these
limited voices use law to reify, disrupt, or reshape inequalities that result
from class and language differences? How do race and ethnicity intersect, run
parallel to, or contradict class and language use in legal settings? Finally,
who are the gatekeepers of law and how do their own classed and linguistic
identities restrict or open access to others?<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>We
invite papers that discuss the intersection of language and class in the
experience of the law and legal institutions. This panel is open to linguistic
and sociocultural anthropologists, but will be submitted under the Association
for Political and Legal Anthropology. All papers must address the three main
foci of the panel: language, class, and law. <span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span><span> </span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Interested
applicants should submit a 250-word abstract and paper title to Jessica
Lopez-Espino (</span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:jsl610@nyu.edu">jsl610@nyu.edu</a></span><span>)
and Nathan Madson (</span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:nhm248@nyu.edu">nhm248@nyu.edu</a></span><span>)
by <b><u>March 26, 2018 3PM EST</u></b><u>.<span></span></u></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>We
look forward to your submissions!<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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<b>Eligibility:<span></span></b></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Accepted
panel presenters will be required to be paid Annual Meeting registrants (by
April 16 at 3 pm EST) AND have AAA memberships active through November 18.
Anthropologists outside of the U.S. or Canada, or non-anthropologists, may
request a </span><a href="http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2017" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>Membership
Exemption</span></a><span>,
but meeting registration is still required. Membership exemptions must be
requested by Thursday, March 29. For financial assistance with registration,
please complete the </span><a href="http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=13458" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>Program
Chair Waiver application</span></a><span> prior to Thursday, March 29. The completion of an
application does not guarantee a waiver will be awarded.<span></span></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Jessica López-Espino</span><br><span>PhD Candidate- Anthropology</span><br><span>New York University</span></span></span>
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