Many congratulations to former Lab member Leanne Williams Green on her new tenure-track job at the University of Sydney! We are delighted for you, Leanne.

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Our call for Kitchen Session presenters is open year-round. Kitchen Sessions provide a friendly, low-stakes setting where grad students and faculty can share raw ethnographic materials and collectively brainstorm directions for analysis. Presenters from any department are welcome. No background in linguistic anthropology is required, just an interest in exploring what this kind of approach to your materials can yield. Click here for more details.

Remember, grad students can get academic credit for attending the Linguistic Anthropology Workshop: 1 unit per quarter for up to 4 quarters. The course number is ANTH 241.

For the 2024-2025 academic year, Linguistic Anthropology is offering the following courses:
- ANTH 279F. Core Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology (Yeh, winter)
- ANTH 4. Words and Worlds: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (DEI; Yeh, spring)
- ANSC 191. Selves & Stories (Yeh, spring)

Congrats to Rachel Emerine Hicks and her co-author Ninna Villavicencio (who presented in the Lab in 2020) on their newly-published article "Voicing Contradictions: Photo-elicitation as an Ethnographic Method in Youth-Centered Research." Rachel also has another co-authored piece just out on AI-enhanced teaching, as well as a review of Aidan Crany's Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement.

Drew Kerr has been busy interviewing authors. He's also done a book review:
- Discussion with Moyukh Chatterjee on Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities
- Discussion with Dan White on Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety
- Discussion with Marina Peterson on Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles
- Review of Tarini Bedi's Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

With Virginia Escobedo Aguirre, who presented in the Lab in 2021, Rihan Yeh has co-edited a special issue in Spanish on impasses and interruptions in interactions with bureaucrats. Rihan's essay analyzes the narrative of an interrogation at the Mexico-US border.

Damini Pant also has a couple book reviews out, with more on the way:
- Review of Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below, edited by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi
- Review of Tiruvalluvar's The Book of Desire, translated by Meena Kandasamy

This fall, we’ll continue to meet Friday mornings from 10-11:40am, unless otherwise noted. Most sessions will be hybrid, with in-person folks gathering in the Lab.

Welcome back/work-share session
Besides post-summer check-ins, we’ll spend the session kicking around whatever we’ve been thinking about in the realm of ling anth: field observations, recent readings, the state of the field, something you’ve been tangling with in your writing, our job search… Coffee and morning snacks will be provided; please feel free to make it a potluck (or not).
Fri, Sep 27

Kitchen session with Anthony Harb, Comm
Negotiating Belonging on and through Spanish-Language Radio
+ we'll chat about the job market after the main session ends at 10:50
Fri, Oct 4, 10-10:50am

Reading session
Following up on our spring reading session, we’ll discuss a set of essays (TBA) on the ethics and politics of citation in academic writing.
Fri, Oct 18

Rachel Hicks, Anthropology
Dissertation defense practice
Fri, Oct 25, 9-9:50am

Alicia Wright, Anthropology
“I was lucky because it was quite rare to see black interpreters”: Language Access, Identity, and Interpreting… (a dissertation chapter)
Discussant: Tim Loh, Princeton
Fri, Nov 1, 10:30-12:10am

Methods workshop
Jointly organized with the Critical Anthropology Workshop–more info coming soon!
Fri, Nov 8