Rachel Hicks’ defense this past November was the most vibrant event the Lab has seen in a good long while. Thank you, Rachel, for sharing your work with us, and for all your years of support and comradeship in the Lab. You are going to be very sorely missed.

Many congratulations to former Lab member Leanne Williams Green on her new 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 winter, we’ll hold just one regular workshop session.

Michael Min-Torresdey (Hillyer), Anthropology
Position paper for qualifying exam
Discussant: Cesar Barreras, UCLA
Fri, Jan 24