<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:600px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in"><div><div><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Please join us at the conference, <i><span>Signification</span>, Circulation, Emanations</i> this Friday and Saturday, April 26–27, 2024, 8:45am–5pm CDT (GMT-5:00). The conference is in-person and broadcast online through Zoom. (See below for links for registration, conference website/description, and the program.)</div><div><br></div><div>The conference is the third in a series of three conferences reflecting and building upon the work of Michael Silverstein. This conference features presentations by: Richard Bauman, Charles Briggs, Joseph Errington, Andrew Graan, Kira Hall and Ayden Parish, Matthew Hull, Elina Hartikainen, Elise Kramer, Michael Lempert, Gregory Mateosian, Barbra Meek, Elizabeth Mertz, Justin Richland, Jonathan Rosa, Gregory Urban, Eitan Wilf, Kristina Wirtz, Stanton Wortham, and Rihan Yeh.</div><div><br>(Register and more information here: <a href="https://anthroinvitation.coffeecup.com/my-forms/SCE/form.html" target="_blank">https://anthroinvitation.coffeecup.com/my-forms/SCE/form.html</a>)<br> <div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td width="280" valign="top" style="width:210pt;padding:0in 0in 6pt"><div><p style="margin:0in;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black">April 26–27 at the Franke Institute or online.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td><td width="280" valign="top" style="width:210pt;padding:0in 0in 6pt"><p align="right" style="margin:0in;text-align:right;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://departmentofanthropology.cmail19.com/t/j-e-suythik-l-b/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black">View this email online</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">.<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td width="600" style="width:6.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0in"><div style="margin-left:15pt;margin-top:0.25in;margin-right:15pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:1pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-left:15pt;margin-right:15pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:3.75pt"><span style="font-size:1pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-left:15pt;margin-right:15pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:15pt;text-align:center;line-height:30pt;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Apple SD Gothic Neo";color:black"><span>Signification</span>, Circulation, Emanations<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-left:15pt;margin-right:15pt"><div style="margin-left:195pt;margin-right:195pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:1.5pt;background:rgb(204,204,204)"><span style="font-size:1.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-left:15pt;margin-right:15pt"><div style="margin-bottom:15pt"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_lunn0etp0" alt="SCE Poster_.png" width="307" height="475" style="outline:0px"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14.25pt"><br></p></div></div><div style="margin-left:15pt;margin-right:15pt"><div><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Apple SD Gothic Neo";color:black;font-weight:normal">We are delighted to invite you to </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://cscs.uchicago.edu/sce/" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Apple SD Gothic Neo";color:red;text-decoration-line:none"><span>Signification</span>, Circulation, Emanations</span></em></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Apple SD Gothic Neo";color:black;font-weight:normal">, a two-day conference that reflects and builds on the scholarship of </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://cscs.uchicago.edu/michael-silverstein/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Apple SD Gothic Neo";color:red;text-decoration-lin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