[Linganth] Language Machines - An Online Launch - Friday, April 17, 12pm EDT

[Andy Graan]

*Language Machines: Sociotechnical Practices and Ideologies at Work in
Large Language Models – An Online Launch *

Friday, April 17, 2026
12pm to 1:30pm Eastern Time (UTC-4)

Register for the Zoom meeting at: https://tinyurl.com/languagemachines2026

*SLA Online* is back from hiatus with this virtual launch of the new Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology
<https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15481395> special
issue on “Language Machines
<https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15481395>.” This
unprecedented collection represents the cutting-edge of anthropological
engagements with large-language models and artificial intelligence, with
articles that detail how linguistic anthropology can contribute to the
semiotic, interactional, and ideological analysis of LLMs.

This online launch will feature a discussion among:

*Guest Interlocutor*
Beth Semel (Princeton University)

*Issue Editors*
Michael Castelle (University of Warwick)
Siri Lamoureaux (Emlyon Business School)
Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna)

*Article Contributors*
Tariq Adely (George Washington University)
Courtney Handman (University of Texas)
Nils Klowait (Paderborn University)

With an Introduction By JLA Editor-In-Chief, Anna Babel (Ohio State
University)

We hope to see you there!

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-- 
Andrew Graan, Anthropologist
andrewgraan.net

*Recent Publications*
Projects and Anti-Projects
<https://allegralaboratory.net/projects-and-anti-projects/>.  *Allegra
Lab, *February 2026.

Projects and Project Temporalities: Ethnographic Reflections on the
Normative Power of the Project Form
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387242099_Projects_and_Project_Temporalities_Ethnographic_Reflections_on_the_Normative_Power_of_the_Project_Form>.
Co-Authored with Carl Rommel.  *Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, *
2024.

What was the Project? Thoughts on Genre and the Project Form
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361628218_What_was_the_project_Thoughts_on_genre_and_the_project_form>.
 *Journal of Cultural Economy, *2022.
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