<div><div dir="auto">Hi all, sending out a final call for any last minute abstract submissions to the AAA panel below. If interested, please submit an abstract by Sunday, April 8. We will notify everyone interested early next week.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Grace and Alison</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM Grace Reynolds <<a href="mailto:gr3ck@virginia.edu">gr3ck@virginia.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please consider the following, albeit down-to-the-wire, call for papers and forward as you see fit.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Many thanks,</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grace Reynolds and Alison Broach, University of Virginia</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CFP: AAA Annual Meeting (San Jose, California; Nov. 2018)</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference theme: “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Change in the Anthropological Imagination: Resistance, Resilience, Adaptation</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">”</span></div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Words that Travel: Narrative practices over space and time</span></div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Draft panel abstract, subject to updates</i></span></p><div><br></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This panel examines the processes through which stories move through people and over time. We are particularly interested in the metalinguistic features and mechanisms through which stories and the voices of storytellers become entextualized (Urban, 1996) into other contexts and effect real change. As utterances travel, they retain residues, flavors, and pieces of their prior contexts (Bakhtin 1981). This influences the course of their journey, since those embedded contexts including features like authorship and voice can craft re-entextualized utterances into powerful tools that drive social movements or other social formations. </span></div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In attempting to describe what stories </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">do</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> as they flow through people, classic linguistic models fail to take into account the complexity of participant roles engaged in these or other “utterance events” (Irvine 1996). Work by Hymes (1974), Goffman (1981), and others (Bakhtin 1981; Hill 1995; Irvine 1996; Keane 2000; Minks 2013) have recognized this shortcoming and called attention to the fact that speakers have complex relationships with their own, and others’, words. Irvine (1996) proposes that, rather than focus on devising an increasingly complex formula for mapping participant structure, we instead focus on the process itself by which these structures are imagined, constructed, socially understood and distributed.  Still under consideration, however, is a means of taking into account the culturally-specific ways that prior or parallel utterance contexts, real or imagined, influence and inform any stretch of discourse, allowing speakers for example to assume responsibility for some voices in their speech, but not others.  </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We bring together papers that examine the processes through which stories—used loosely to encompass songs, poetry, and other narrative practices—and the voices within them travel through time, space, speakers, and listeners. Voice in particular is often imbued with a moral quality when attributed to speakers such as deceased ancestors, community elders, or the leaders of social movements. What are the processes through which such voices become embedded within others and revoiced? What role do these voices play in the construction of participants’ social imaginaries? We especially welcome papers that address what the flow of voices through time and space contributes to the construction and maintenance of systems such kinship, social movements, or identities.</span></div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send abstracts (250 words max) with paper title and presenter information to both Alison Broach (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:acb2fj@virginia.edu" target="_blank">acb2fj@virginia.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Grace Reynolds (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:gr3ck@virginia.edu" target="_blank">gr3ck@virginia.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) by the end of the day on Friday, 6 April. If included on the panel, session participants must be registered AAA members and registered for the meeting by 16 April.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Citations</u></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><ul class="m_-8392265420240362713MailOutline"><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Bakhtin MM. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, transl./ed. M Holquist, transl. C Emerson. Austin:  University of Texas Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Goffman, Erving. 1981. Forms of talk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hill, JH. 1995. “Voices of Don Gabriel: responsibility and self in a modern Mexicano narrative.” In </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Dialogic Emergence of Culture</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, ed. D Tedlock, B Mannheim, 97–147. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Hymes, D H. 1974. Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Irvine, Judith T. 1993. "Insult and responsibility: Verbal abuse in a Wolof village." In </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Edited by Hill, Jane H., and Judith T. Irvine, 105-134, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Irvine, Judith T. 1996. “Shadow conversations: The indeterminacy of participant roles,” In </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Natural Histories of Discourse</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, edited by Silverstein, Michael, and Greg Urban, 131-159.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Keane, W. 2000. Voice. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 9(1–2): 271–73.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Minks, A. 2013. Voices of Play: Miskitu Children’s Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Tucson: University of  Arizona Press.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Urban, G., 1996. “Entextualization, replication, and power,” In </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Natural Histories of Discourse</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, edited by Silverstein, Michael, and Greg Urban, 21-44.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</span></li></ul></div><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div></span></div>
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