Panelists and Titles:
Maria Sidorkina (Yale) 'Trolling Habermas: Russian Kholivar as infrastructure of sociability'
Alejandro Paz (Toronto) 'El Sapo speaks: Police informers, State violence and Latino labor migrants in Israel'
Stephen Peters (McGill) 'Disclosing violence: 'Public presentation of social ills in Indigenous delivered podium addresses'
Aaron Batels-Swindells (Penn) 'Towards an understanding of the "minor writer".'
Hilary Dick (Arcadia) Discussant
Paul Kockelman (Yale) 'Quantifying entities and sequencing events: Grade and aspect in Q'eqchi'-Maya
Andrew Caruthers (Yale) 'Semiotic-Anthropological reflections on Infrastructure, Commensuration and Equivalence'
Robert Moore (Penn) Discussant
Katherine Culver (Penn) 'Objectivity in Juror narratives of decision-making'
Nicholas Limerick (Penn) 'Roles of indigenous identities in the Organic Law of Intercultural Education in Ecuador'
Coleman Donaldson (Penn) 'The social life of orthography development'
Asif Agha (Penn) Discussant
Mariam Durrani (Penn) 'The hashtag as semiotic form'
Sarah Neterer 'Pills and Potions: Facebook as Corporate archive'
Tri Phuong (Yale) 'Irony and Power: Youth media, teen code and intertextual play in late socialist Vietnam'
Stanton Wortham (Penn) Discussant
Marshall Knudson (Penn) 'Regrouping Identity in Chile'
Katy Hardy (Yale) 'Language purity and the moral qualia of Bhojpuri'
Mark Lewis (Penn) 'Metadiscursive talk and language ideologies in dual language classrooms'
Catherine Rhodes (Penn) 'Diacritics of Maya personhood'
Angela Reyes (CUNY) Discussant
Greg Urban (Penn) 'The iconic basis of coroporate profit making'
Ferhan Tunagur (Penn) 'Pure cars and purist drivers'
Adam Leeds (Duke) 'Semiotic technologies for making the economy'
Asif Agha (Penn) Discussant