<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b48ee63c-7fff-8703-5184-e8efe2010ad3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear ling anthro folks,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yukun Zeng and I are looking for a last minute addition to our AAA panel in advance of the deadline next Weds. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you're interested or if you have any questions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* * *</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tacit Futures: Literacy Pedagogy as Political Activism and Implicit Social Action</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-804c2b1d-7fff-1bce-ed41-80642c70255c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How do activists build political futures by teaching people how to read? Socialization to text always possesses a future orientation, leading students along an arc of skill acquisition into a community of practice. Some literacy pedagogy projects make no claims that their work is political, others advance specific claims about the political change they effect. The papers of this panel seek to understand something distinct from both of these kinds of claims about literacy projects. They seek to understand how activists advance their political projects through semiotic labor that </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">makes</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> futures, rather than just describing them. This panel's papers approach literacy pedagogy as a form of social action centered on texts without being reducible to their contents or to statements about them. How then does denotationally implicit semiosis figure in political projects to reconfigure the social world through literacy? What does it mean, semiotically speaking, to build a tacit future through text?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c06de7aa-7fff-c8ea-51fb-2bc07d72a2fa"></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></p></span></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a595b00a-7fff-3f4b-ab55-395842f279e9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5a799eb1-7fff-4685-8a5f-fd59384cb664"></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Choksi, Nishaant. "From Language to Script: Graphic practice and the politics of authority in Santali-language print media, eastern India." </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Modern Asian Studies</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 51, no. 5 (2017): 1519-1560.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cody, Francis. "Daily wires and daily blossoms: cultivating regimes of circulation in Tamil India's newspaper revolution." </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 19, no. 2 (2009): 286-309.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Debenport, Erin. "Continuous perfectibility: Pueblo propriety and the consequences of literacy." </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 22, no. 3 (2012): 201-219.</span></span><br></div></div></div>