Ethnography of Reading session @ AAA Wednesday night

[Knowlton, Timothy]

Dear Colleagues,
Although it is not an SLA sponsored session, the AAA session below may be of interest to many linguistic anthropologists:

2-0790 EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF READING: LOCATING READABILITY AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF TEXT, OBJECT AND PERFORMANCE.

Reviewed By: Society for Cultural Anthropology
Wednesday, November 20, 2013: 8:00 PM-9:45 PM

Organizers:  Josh Friedman (University of Michigan and University of Michigan) and Nishaant Choksi (University of Michigan and University of Michigan)
Chairs:  Nadia Loan (University of Oregon)
Discussants:  Francis P Cody (University of Toronto and University of Toronto)
8:00 PM
Discussant
Francis P Cody (University of Toronto and University of Toronto)
8:15 PM
Quranic Legibility: Inscribing Devotion in Contemporary Pakistan
Nadia Loan (University of Oregon)
8:30 PM
Reading the Miraculous Place: The Semiotics of Votive Texts in the Chapel of a Guatemalan Popular Saint
Timothy W Knowlton (Berry College)
8:45 PM
People of the Book: Readability, Potentiality and the Yiddish Book Center’s Mediation of Generation in “Yiddishland.”
Josh Friedman (University of Michigan)
9:00 PM
Acts of Faith/Texts for Life: Bible Reading and Interpretative Practices in Children’s Religious Education
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez (UC Berkeley)
9:15 PM
Discussion
9:30 PM
Discussion 

Timothy Knowlton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Berry College