Roman Jakobson Symposium 2021-2022

SEMINARS WITH THE HARVARD-YENCHING PROGRAM IN LINGUISTIC AND SEMIOTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

 

FALL 2021

5 November
Franciscu Sedda, University of Cagliari, Sardinia
Invisible Translations: Bridging Pragmatist and Structuralist Approaches to Semiotic Analysis

12 November
Franciscu Sedda, University of Cagliari, Sardinia
Semiotics, Sovereignty, and Self-Consciousness: The Case of Sardinia

3 December
Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
Social Poetics

 

SPRING 2022

23 February
Angela Reyes, CUNY Graduate Center
Stanton Wortham, Boston College
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event

4 March  
Lily Hope Chumley, New York University
Multimodality and Semiotic Change

11 March    
Paja Faudree, Brown University
Writing, Speaking, Singing (and Whistling)

1  April
Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago
Voicing, Looking, Perspective

15 April    
Janet McIntosh, Brandeis University
Language, Embodiment, and the U.S. Military

29 April
Graham Jones, MIT
Qualities and Quantities of Evidence

6 May
Robert Moore, University of Pennsylvania
Memes as Metalanguage: Entitlement, Citationality, Staged Infelicity


WORKSHOP ON SEMIOTICS RESEARCH
17 – 18 May

Yuichi Asai, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (HYI)
From Textual to Ritual: Semiotics on the Stranger-King in Contemporary Fiji

Xi Chen, University of Central Lancashire (Harvard Korea Institute)
Learners’ Understanding of Indexical Meaning

Yiwei Fang, Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard
Narrating A Past Qinhuai: A Courtesan Genre, Corruptive Songs, and National Crises

Christian Go, National University of Singapore (HYI)
Pride Regimes and the Semiotic Landscape of the Metro Manila Pride March

Ayumi Inouchi, University of Tsukuba (HYI)
Cute, Stylish, and Soft: Aesthetic Textuality of South Korea in Contemporary Japan

Charisma Lepcha, Sikkim University (HYI)
Colonial Recursivity, Post-Colonial Reproduction, and Decolonial Reclamation of Lepcha Language in India

Yin (Eric) Liu, University of Hong Kong (HYI)
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Communication Inequality in China: The Case of Rural Chinese

Rui Sun, Chinese University of Hong Kong (HYI)
On the Beauty of Fresh-cut Flowers: Materiality, Qualia, and Semiotic Ideology

Madoka Tsuchida, The University of Tokyo (HYI)
The Poetics of Bodies: From Sign Language to Dance

Ting Wang, Fudan University (Harvard Anthropology)
The “Flexibility” of Miao Drum-Centered Rituals in Southwest China

Chen Xue, University of Electronic Science And Technology of China (HYI)
Lady Welby and Significs

Xingzhi Zhao, Sichuan University (HYI)
C.S. Peirce and Semiotic Triangle(s) in Early China