24 Feb 2027

Meghanne Barker – Book Chapter

Series: ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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Join the ELAN Workshop Series for a book chapter presentation by Meghanne Barker, followed by comments by Leonita Catot and discussion. Further details will be announced through the ELAN’s mailing list.


The ELAN Online Workshop provides ELAN members with a forum to share their work with other linguistic anthropologists and to receive friendly feedback on research in progress. We hope that participants will find it to be a fruitful place, both to develop their own writing and also to learn about peers’ research. Please sign up to the ELAN listserv to be informed about upcoming meetings.

The workshop typically meets once a month. Meeting times can vary so please check the workshop schedule for each session’s starting time. Workshop meetings will take place on Zoom. We will start with a short (5-10 minute) presentation by the paper author. This will be followed by short discussant comments (5-10 minutes) and a general discussion. All participants are asked to read the pre-circulated texts in advance.

In 2025-2026, the workshop is coordinated by Urmila Nair (urmila.nair(at)sorbonne-nouvelle.fr) and Bente De Graeve (b.w.de.graeve(at)hum.leidenuniv.nl). Please contact them with your questions, comments, suggestions.

For an overview of the ELAN Online Workshop Series, see here:

Speakers

Meghanne Barker

University College London

Meghanne Barker received her PhD in cultural anthropology, with a focus on linguistic anthropology, from the University of Michigan. Prior to arriving at UCL, Barker held posts as an LSE Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She has served as co-convener of ELAN, the linguistic anthropology network of the European Association for Social Anthropology, and has organized their online workshops. She is co-editor-in-chief of Semiotic Review.

Discussants

Leonita Catot

Sorbonne Nouvelle