Events by ELAN

Upcoming events

18 Mar 2026

Paper Presentation:  Annabelle Cara

Online
Workshop
ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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15 Apr 2026

Book Launch: “Justice in the Balance” by Jessica Greenberg

Online
Workshop
ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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Past events

09 Feb 2026

Special Issue Launch: Cryptotypes, or the Anthropology of the Inobvious (L’Homme 2025/254)

Online
Workshop
Series: ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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16 Jan 2026

Paper Presentation: The Failed Promise of Contracts’ Explicitness

Online
Workshop
Series: ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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08 Dec 2025

“Reading More Intensively”: Intensity of Reading and the Semiotics of Labor Intensity in Contemporary Grassroots Confucianism

Online
Workshop
Series: ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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06 Nov 2025
- 07 Nov 2025

Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, Futures

Leiden University, Netherlands
Conference

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13 Oct 2025

Book Launch: “Selective Solidarity” by Chelsie Yount

Online
Workshop
Series: ELAN 2025-2026 Online Workshop Series

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19 Jun 2025

Jennifer Delfino, “What’s (Not) in a Letter? Filipinx and the Postcolonial Semiotics of Erasure on Social Media”

Online event, Workshop

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08 May 2025

Suzie Telep: “The semiotics of whitening: analyzing the co-construction of language, race and the body through racial passing”

Workshop

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06 Feb 2025

Cat Tebaldi: “Redeeming Love: metapragmatics and metapolitics in Christian romance media”

Workshop

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09 Jan 2025

Jennifer Delfino, “What’s (Not) in a Letter? Filipinx and the Postcolonial Semiotics of Erasure on Social Media”

Workshop

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05 Dec 2024

Ilana Gershon, virtual lauch of “The Pandemic Workplace”

Workshop

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07 Nov 2024

James Costa, “Are constructed languages political? Universal language, social order, and the onset of rapid communication during the French Revolution” (book chapter)

Workshop

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24 Oct 2024

Meghanne Barker, virtual launch of “Throw Your Voice”

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20 Jun 2024

Tatsuma Padoan :“Ritual as Enunciative Praxis: Some Reflections from Katsuragi, Japan” 

Workshop

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23 May 2024

Ilana Gershon: “Substantive Listening, Procedural Listening: Strategies of Ignoring in US school board meetings” 

Workshop

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25 Apr 2024

Suzie Telep: “Since when do gos speak Francanglais?”: Youth Slang and Gender Ideologies in a Cameroonian YouTube Series 

Workshop

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28 Mar 2024

Andrew Graan: “Projects! Projects! Projects! An Emphatic Genealogy” (Andrew Graan)

Workshop

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23 Nov 2023

Lijing Peng: “Pilgrimage and Epic Singers in Han-Tibetan Borderland in China”

Workshop

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26 Oct 2023

Janet Connor: “Hearing similarity and difference in gentrifying Oslo”

Workshop

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28 Sep 2023

Reading Group: The Concept of Action, by N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell

Workshop

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11 May 2023

Charles Zuckerman: ”Why Petanque?”

Workshop

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20 Apr 2023

Mike Prentice: “Organizational overhearing: Anonymous workplace gossip platforms and new dynamics of listening in South Korean corporations.”

Workshop

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16 Mar 2023

Elina Hartikainen: “After Recognition: Race, Religion and Otherwise Politics in Brazil”

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09 Feb 2023

Grigory Gorbun: “Re-enchanting the Russian legal profession through moot court role-play” 

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18 Jan 2023

Elana Resnick: “No puedes hablar ahora”: Voice in an interpreter mediated court meeting

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08 Dec 2022

Yazan Doughan: “Intentions Reconsidered: Reasons for action in the ruins of practical reason”

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23 Nov 2022

Chelsie Yount-André: “Scales of Solidarity: Navigating Economic Moralities”

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13 Oct 2022

Kaushalya Perera: A Reading Discussion on Evidentiality

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22 Sep 2022

Catherine Tebaldi & Alfonso Del Percio: ”White Pride and Profit”

Workshop

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12 May 2022

Stefan Groth: “Utopian Investments: Notes on the Pragmatics of Crypto Twitter”

Workshop

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07 Apr 2022

Julia Sonnleitner: “Of Criminals, Beasts, and Ghosts: Detecting traces in the Semiotic Landscape of the Vienna Central Cemetery”

Workshop

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