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linguistic anthropologists:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Charles Briggs
(UC Berkeley, <a href="mailto:clbriggs@berkeley.edu">clbriggs@berkeley.edu</a>) and Paja Faudree (Brown,
<a href="mailto:Paja_Faudree@brown.edu">Paja_Faudree@brown.edu</a>) teamed up with David Parkin (Oxford and SOAS,
<a href="mailto:david.parkin@anthro.ox.ac.uk">david.parkin@anthro.ox.ac.uk</a>) in proposing a series of panels on "</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Communicating
Bodies: New Juxtapositions of Linguistic and Medical Anthropology" for a
conference sponsored by the European Association of Social Anthropologists that
will be held at the University of Sussex on 9-11 September 2015. The meeting is
MAGic2015, "Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy
and Practice." Our goal is to extend the very fruitful discussions between
linguistic and medical anthropologists that emerged in the panel and roundtable
we organized for the 2014 AAA meeting across the Atlantic.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style> </span>We are pleased to
report that the organizers approved our panel proposal, which means that an
open call for paper proposals is now available at
<a href="http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3649">http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3649</a>. We would thus
like to encourage you to use the web page to submit a paper proposal. Two
important notes: First, you are welcome to send us a copy of what you are
proposing, but we cannot submit it on your behalf. Second,<b style> the deadline is 27 April</b>. A full contingent of fascinating
scholars from the UK and the continent are submitting abstracts, so we think
that the dialogue across subfields and between global anthropologies should be
fascinating. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The proposal on the website was not mean to constrain the
sorts of papers that may be presented but only to secure a spot on the program.
So please feel free to craft whatever way you wish to bring together attention
to language (broadly conceived, and other semiotic systems) and health, which
will hopefully include both more broad, analytic, programmatic papers and those
centering on a particular research focus. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please direct
any questions or comments to the three co-conveners.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">With best wishes</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Charles (Briggs)
and Paja (Faudree)</span></p>
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