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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Alfonso and Kamilla,<br>
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I'd be happy to participate. I'd either contribute a paper on Roman Jakobson and the Cold War, or a paper on recent debates on commodification of language. I'm away March 12-22 (spring break), so please let me know if you need anything from me before that.<br>
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Bonnie<br>
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Bonnie McElhinny<br>
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies Institute<br>
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Anthropology: Room 364, Anthropology Building, 19 Russell St.<br>
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Ph: 416-978-3297</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF440481"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> Linganth [linganth-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf of Alfonso Del Percio [alfonso.delpercio@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> March-07-15 5:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> linganth@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kamilla Kraft<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Linganth] Panel on Language, Labor and Political Economy (The 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, November 18-22, 2015)<br>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">Dear all</span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:12pt">Kamilla Kraft (University of Oslo, Norway) and I (University of Oslo, Norway) are writing to invite you to participate
in a panel on </span><i class="" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:12pt">Language, Labor and Political Economy</i><span class="" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:12pt"> that we are organizing for the upcoming AAA 2015 (the 114th
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, November 18-22, 2015). </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">This panel will focus on the role of language and communication in the structuration of labor under current
capitalist conditions, as well as in the regulation of workers' conditions of access to the production of resources and to forms of symbolic and material capital. We also seek to examine the forms of expertise – i.e. authoritative knowledge (on language, the
labor force, the productive processes, and current economic conditions) – that are mobilized to rationalize and authorize this capitalist investment in language. </span><span class="" style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">Our aim is to bring together scholars who work on different sectors of the late capitalist economy in order
to produce a complex understanding of the way language becomes instrumental for the structuration of workspaces. We also aim to understand how language is invested as a means to make and legitimize difference between workers.</span><span class="" style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">As we would like to move ahead with planning, we would ask that you let us know in the next few days if you
might be interested in contributing to this panel.</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span class="" style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">Alfonso Del Percio (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span class="" style="color:#386EFF"><a href="mailto:alfonso.delpercio@gmail.com" class="" target="_blank">alfonso.delpercio@gmail.com</a></span></span>)
and Kamilla Kraft (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span class="" style="color:#386EFF"><a href="mailto:kamilla.kraft@iln.uio.no" class="" target="_blank">kamilla.kraft@iln.uio.no</a></span></span>) </span><span class="" style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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