From acarru at sas.upenn.edu Mon Nov 3 12:54:24 2025 From: acarru at sas.upenn.edu (Carruthers, Andrew M.) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 12:54:24 +0000 Subject: [Linganth] Important SLA Events at the AAA Message-ID: Dear colleagues, As we await the finalized AAA program from the executive powers that be, I wanted to alert you to some key SLA-related events to be held at our upcoming meeting in New Orleans: 1. SLA Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony (8764) Thursday, 11/20, 8:15-10:15PM 2. SLA Reception (8767) Thursday, 11/20, 10:15-11:15PM 3. SLA Extended Board Meeting (8766) Friday, 11/21, 8:00-9:00AM 4. SLA Mentoring Program Luncheon (8765) Friday, 11/21, 11:45AM-12:45PM I have requested a finalized meeting agenda from the AAA executive board and will of course write you all once more with a collated list of SLA-related panels when that information is available. Thank you for your forbearance, and looking forward to meeting in New Orleans! Your lowly program chair, Andrew --- Andrew M. 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URL: From imgershon at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 14:15:00 2025 From: imgershon at gmail.com (Ilana Gershon) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 09:15:00 -0500 Subject: [Linganth] today on CaMP anthropology--Maria Sonevytsky Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Today on the CaMP blog, Ifigeneia Gianne chats with Maria Sonevytsky, exploring her book Tantsi. www.campanthropology.org Best, Ilana Press blurb: Rock 'n' roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled through its foundations. Unlike the often-saccharine pop music sanctioned by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late Soviet life, to articulate new ways of being Ukrainian, and to celebrate the cathartic pleasures of collective gatherings organized around musical performances. This book tells the story of *Tantsi *(*Dances*) a 1989 semi-official cassette release by the now-legendary Ukrainian punk band Vopli Vidopliassova, known to fans simply as VV (pronounced ?Ve-Ve?). Their disruptive musical sounds, ironic lyrics, use of language, and propulsive performances toyed with the distinctions between official and unofficial Soviet culture. VV's *Tantsi* exemplifies how Soviet musical cultures existed within an ecosystem of contradictions as entrenched state infrastructures collided with emergent youth subcultures on the quicksand of late Soviet life. Today, *Tantsi* continues to invite us to dance while we laugh (or cry) at the absurdities of everyday life. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c.nakassis at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 15:00:00 2025 From: c.nakassis at gmail.com (Constantine Nakassis) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0600 Subject: [Linganth] CfP + new article: Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please see below for the CfP for the newest issue of *Semiotic Review,* as well as the announcement of a new article in the issue by Massimo Leone and Webb Keane. Meghanne Barker and Constantine V. Nakassis co-editors, *Semiotic Review* ------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers: Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology, a thematic issue of Semiotic Review* We are delighted to invite a fresh round of contributions to this open thematic issue of Semiotic Review *(https://semioticreview.com/ ) *(To see the papers already published in the issue, go to: https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/issue/view/15*.) ?*Dialogues*? *aims to provide a bridge between the semiotic traditions of North American linguistic anthropology and continental semiotics. While each has developed out of sustained critical engagement with and expansions of linguistic structuralism, the two traditions have been in almost no contact with each other in well-over half-a-century and each has developed in its own way: linguistic anthropology, under the influence of Jakobson, Hymes, Goffman, and others, has welded Peircean semiotics to an ethnographic focus on speech events and face-to-face interaction, and more recently, to interdiscursive processes of various sorts; continental semiotics, in particular in France and Italy, through the work of Benveniste, Greimas, Eco, Fabbri, Fontanille, Latour, and others, has explored the semiotics of enunciation, nonhuman agency, affect, and non-linguistic sign systems, initially focused on literary and visual text analysis and, more recently, with a turn to ethnosemiotics, material semiotics, forms of life, and the semiosphere. Despite these differences, these traditions are built on a common bedrock and continue to be concerned with similar problems, from problems of deixis, textuality, and subjectivity to the body, experience, and practice, to questions of circulation, value, and forms of life. This issue aims to address this gap by creating a space for conceptual translation and dialogue across our traditions. We encourage submissions that articulate concepts, thinkers, and methods from both traditions with the aims of fostering a dialogue across the proverbial pond. The editors of this issue, Constantine V. Nakassis and Tatsuma Padoan welcome diverse types of submissions, from scholarly articles to translations of canonical works, interviews and roundtables to review essays. Submissions, however, should have a clear engagement with elements of both traditions, linguistic anthropology and continental semiotics. With the exception of translations, submissions should be in English. Submissions should be sent to semioticreview at gmail.com. For more information on how to submit to *Semiotic Review*, go to https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/submit. As with all issues of *Semiotic Review, *?Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology? remains open to submissions on a rolling basis. Exemplifying this, we are proud to announce the release of an additional contribution to the issue: ?Semiotic Ideology: A Dialogue across Traditions ? by *Massimo* *Leone* and *Webb* *Keane*, moderated and with a preface by Constantine V. Nakassis. ( https://doi.org/10.71743/zafmdt34.) *Abstract**:* This dialogue between Webb Keane and Massimo Leone, moderated and with a preface by Constantine V. Nakassis, explores convergences and divergences between continental semiotics and North American linguistic anthropology on the topic of ?semiotic ideology.? The discussion ranges over questions of intellectual genealogy, the status of interpretation, the epistemology of analysis, and methodology. It is an edited transcription of the opening session of the ?Summer Symposium 2025: Ideologies of Conservation and Transformation,? organized by Massimo Leone at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy, 23 June 2025). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nsantana at umich.edu Mon Nov 3 15:02:05 2025 From: nsantana at umich.edu (Noelia Santana) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 10:02:05 -0500 Subject: [Linganth] Fwd: SLA Graduate Student Writing Group In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear graduate students, A friendly reminder that our writing group is meeting right now, here's the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95212696789 Our next meeting will be November 17th, 10-11am EST. See you all soon! warmly, Noelia and Nikolina ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Noelia Santana Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 8:16?AM Subject: Re: SLA Graduate Student Writing Group To: Cc: Zenovic, Nikolina Just a friendly reminder that our writing group is meeting today! See you all soon! On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 12:29?PM Noelia Santana wrote: > Dear SLA graduate students, > > Join us this coming *Monday, October 20th 10-11am EST* for our Graduate > Student Writing Group. > > Here's our zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95212696789 > > Our group will meet every other Monday at the same time-- hope to see you > all there! > > warmly, > Noelia and Nikolina, your SLA grad student reps > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chandman at austin.utexas.edu Mon Nov 3 21:22:34 2025 From: chandman at austin.utexas.edu (Handman, Courtney) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 21:22:34 +0000 Subject: [Linganth] CfP for Anthropology News in 2026 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are seeking articles for all four issues of the 2026 Society for Linguistic Anthropology section column of Anthropology News. The journal is now published exclusively online. Although last year pieces had to be connected to the journal issue?s theme, that is no longer the case. So please send us your ideas for short, public-facing, and accessible essays that are tied to linguistic anthropology. Pieces can be either stories or photo essays: * Stories?short-form exploration of an interesting topic with detail and depth, up to 1600 words. To get a better sense of the genre, you can see a recent story in the SLA column by Aidah Aljuran here. * Photo essays?s?ix to eight high-quality, visually compelling images + up to 750 words of introductory text. For a great example of a photo essay, see Judit Kroo?s piece from last year here. If you have an idea that brings a linguistic anthropological perspective to bear on some topic or event of wide interest, please contact the SLA column co-editors, Siri Lamoureaux (lamoureaux at em-lyon.com) and Courtney Handman (chandman at austin.utexas.edu) with a few sentences about your idea. Anthropology News is able to publish only one SLA piece per issue, and the deadline for initial editorial review is December 1, 2025. Depending on the response, we can take proposals for several issues at once, with anticipated 2026 publication dates of March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31. We encourage submissions from both students and faculty who are (or who could become) members of the AAA and SLA. We provide strong editorial support as well as quick turn-around from submission to publication. Reach out to us to see if your idea for a story or photo essay might be a good fit. Thanks for your consideration! -Siri and Courtney Courtney Handman Associate Professor | Dept. of Anthropology | The University of Texas at Austin 2201 Speedway, Stop C3200 | Austin, TX 78712 New book: Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea The University of Texas at Austin resides on what were historically the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples who were dispossessed of their homelands. I recognize and value the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and other American Indian and Indigenous peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of the lands now known as Texas. -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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