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