Congratulations to Micho Min-Torresdey (Hillyer) on winning this year's UC Human Rights Fellowship!

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.

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)

Drew Kerr has accumulated a nice set of author interviews, plus a book review:
- Interview with Shenila Khoja-Moolji on Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan
- Interview with Moyukh Chatterjee on Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities
- Interview with Dan White on Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety
- Interview 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

Keith Murphy, Irvine
Transcription as Design
joint methods session with CAW
Fri, Apr 11

Kit Woolard, UCSD
Some Thoughts on Authenticity as Semiotic Affordance and Communicative Regime
pre-circulated short paper
Fri, Apr 18, 10-10:50 (half-session)

Reading session
Selections from Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life, by Charles Briggs and Daniel Hallin
Fri, May 2

Janet McIntosh, Brandeis
Book talk on Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics
a chapter for discussion will be pre-circulated
Fri, May 9

Kitchen session
with Dominga Puga (SC Anth) and Julia Kott (Comm)
Fri, May 23

Year-end planning session
core group only
Fri, Jun 6, 10-10:50 (half-session)