<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues -<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm circulating this timely and open-ended CFP for a graduate student who is still working on getting access to the Ling Anth<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"> list. If interested, email her directly at <a href="mailto:marybelleiss@umass.edu" target="_blank">marybelleiss@umass.edu</a><font color="#888888"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></font></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span id="m_6866668106310873943gmail-docs-internal-guid-7121f71c-7fff-d98c-2a9c-215ca4cfebb9" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,0,255);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language, play, and resistance to oppression</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,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What can we learn about oppressive systems by studying the play, the carnivalesque, and the alternative ways of interacting and being that have emerged as techniques to escape and resist forms of domination including language standardization and language oppression? Where does the festival suspension of rules meet the rebels in the hills? What do their tactics, in the shadow of power, tell us about the shape and trajectory of that power?</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,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our current ideas for papers on this topic include painting and poetry as counter-colonial discourses; dark contexts behind lighthearted celebrations of dialect; communication strategies against oppressive surveillance systems. </span></p></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div><font color="#888888">best,</font></div><div><font color="#888888"><br></font></div><div><font color="#888888">Lynnette<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></font></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></font></div></div>