The EASA network on Linguistic Anthropology (ELAN) workshops
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 2024-2025, the workshop is coordinated by Anna Weichselbraun (anna.weichselbraun(at)univie.ac.at) and Chelsie Yount-André (c.j.andre(at)fgga.leidenuniv.nl). Please contact them with your questions, comments, suggestions.
The 2024-2025 ELAN workshop schedule
Suzie Telep: “The semiotics of whitening: analyzing the co-construction of language, race and the body through racial passing”
May 8, 2025 (12:15-13:45 BST)
TBA
April 3, 2025
TBA
March 6, 2025
Cat Tebaldi: “Redeeming Love: metapragmatics and metapolitics in Christian romance media”
February 6, 2025 (12:15-13:45 BST)
Jennifer Delfino, “What’s (Not) in a Letter? Filipinx and the Postcolonial Semiotics of Erasure on Social Media”
January 9, 2025 (12:15-13:45 BST)
Ilana Gershon, virtual lauch of The Pandemic Workplace
December 5, 2024 (2:30-4:00 BST)
James Costa, “Are constructed languages political? Universal language, social order, and the onset of rapid communication during the French Revolution (book chapter)
November 7, 2024 (12:15-13:45 BST)
Discussant: Andrew Graan
Meghanne Barker, virtual launch of Throw Your Voice
October 24, 2024
Discussant: Chelsie Yount-André
Past workshops
Tatsuma Padoan :“Ritual as Enunciative Praxis: Some Reflections from Katsuragi, Japan”
June 20, 2024
Discussant: Aurora Donzelli
Ilana Gershon: “Substantive Listening, Procedural Listening: Strategies of Ignoring in US school board meetings
May 23, 2024
Suzie Telep: “Since when do gos speak Francanglais?”: Youth Slang and Gender Ideologies in a Cameroonian YouTube Series
April 25, 2024
Andrew Graan: “Projects! Projects! Projects! An Emphatic Genealogy” (Andrew Graan)
March 28, 2024
Discussant: Anna Weichselbraun
Lijing Peng: “Pilgrimage and Epic Singers in Han-Tibetan Borderland in China”
November 23, 2023
Janet Connor: “Hearing similarity and difference in gentrifying Oslo”
October 26, 2023
Discussant: Salomé Molina
Reading Group: The Concept of Action, by N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell
September 28, 2023
Charles Zuckerman: ”Why Petanque?”
May 11, 2023 (12.15-13.45 BST)
Discussant: Lily Chumley
Mike Prentice: "Organizational overhearing: Anonymous workplace gossip platforms and new dynamics of listening in South Korean corporations."
April 20, 2023 (14.00-15.30 BST)
Discussant: Livia Garofalo
Elina Hartikainen: “After Recognition: Race, Religion and Otherwise Politics in Brazil”
March 16, 12:15-13:45 GMT
Discussant: Yazan Doughan
Grigory Gorbun: “Re-enchanting the Russian legal profession through moot court role-play”
February 9, 2023 (12.15-13.45 GMT)
Discussant: Meghanne Barker
Elana Resnick: “No puedes hablar ahora”: Voice in an interpreter mediated court meeting
January 18, 2023 (17.00-18.30 GMT)
Discussant: Anna Weichselbraun
Yazan Doughan: “Intentions Reconsidered: Reasons for action in the ruins of practical reason”
December 8, 2022 (12.15 - 13.45 GMT)
Discussant: Mathijs Pelkmans
Chelsie Yount-André: “Scales of Solidarity: Navigating Economic Moralities”
November 23 (Wednesday), 2022 (14:00-15:30 GMT)
Discussant: Webb Keane
Kaushalya Perera: A Reading Discussion on Evidentiality
October 13, 2022 (12.15-13.45 BST)
Catherine Tebaldi & Alfonso Del Percio: ”White Pride and Profit”
September 22, 2022 (12.15-13.45 BST)
Discussant: Andrew Graan
Stefan Groth: "Utopian Investments: Notes on the Pragmatics of Crypto Twitter"
12 May 2022 (14.15 - 15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Anna Weichselbraun
Julia Sonnleitner: "Of Criminals, Beasts, and Ghosts: Detecting traces in the Semiotic Landscape of the Vienna Central Cemetery"
7 April 2022 (14.15 - 15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Meghanne Barker
Anna Weichselbraun: "Coronatopes: Talk and Temporality during the Covid-19 Pandemic"
10 March, 2022 (15.15 - 16.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Janet Connor
Steve Coleman: "The Rhetoric of Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Key Tropes in Interrogating the Views and Policies of the Irish State"
10 February, 2022 (15.15 - 16.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Mary Scoggin
Reading Discussion in Memory of Jan Blommaert: "Chronotopes, scales, and complexity in the study of language in society" & "Durkheim and the internet: Notes on sociolinguistics and the sociological imagination"
13 January, 2022 (16.00 - 17.30 Helsinki time)
Guests: Robert Moore, Jenny Van Der Aa
Giulia Cabras: "Linguistic Landscapes of Amdo (Northwest China)"
2 December, 2021 (15.15 - 16.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Laura Siragusa
Andrew Graan: "Diplomatic Commentary and the Sovereignty Trap: Rethinking Political Reform Macedonia"
4 November, 2021 (14.15 - 15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Stefan Groth
Jenny-Louise: "Ethnographic Relations: Short Notes"
7 October, 2021 (14.15 - 15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Karel Arnaut
Reading Discussion: Susan Gal and Judith Irvine "Signs of Difference" Introduction Chapter
9 September, 2021 (18.00 - 19.30 Helsinki time)
Guest: Susan Gal
Shukti Chaudhuri Brill and Laura Siragusa “Workshop on Teaching Linguistic Anthropology”
6 May, 2021
Roswitha Kersten-Pejanic: “Signs of (post)conflict in the linguistic landscape of Mediterranean Croatia”
15 April, 2021
Discussant: Costas Canakis
Tatsuma Padoan “The Designer’s Apprentice: A Semiotics of Learning and Making in Design Practice”
11 March, 2021 (14.15-15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Steve Coleman
Lijing Peng “Language Diversity in Chinese speaking Areas”
11 February, 2021 (14.15-15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Laura Siragusa
Meghanne Barker “Smiles and Smirks at Kazakhstan's EXPO: Emotional Mediation Surrounding a Global Encounter”
14 January, 2021 (14.15-15.45 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Patrick Eisenlohr
Anna Weichselbraun “No Accents, No Affects: Producing the "Civil Voice" of the IAEA”
3 December, 2020 (14.15-15.15 Helsinki time)
Discussant: Martha Sif Karrebæk
