SALSA XVIII

Speech Play and Verbal Art: A Conference in Honor of Joel Sherzer

March 26 - 28, 2010
University of Texas at Austin

Invited Speakers

Richard Bauman: Indiana University

Laura Cervantes: Universidad de Costa Rica

Steven Feld: University of New Mexico

Aaron Fox: Columbia University

Laura Graham: University of Iowa

William F. Hanks: University of Texas at Austin

Yolanda Lastra: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Lev Michael: University of California, Berkeley

Greg Urban: University of Pennsylvania

Anthony C. Woodbury: University of Texas at Austin

Special Parasession:

Poetics at the Threshold of Context

In addition to the general session, we are accepting proposals for contributions to a para-session on potential trajectories for further work in linguistic anthropology based on Sherzer's legacy. In particular, we see a janus faced threshold for research on the interface of language and culture - the formal properties of language cannot be fully understood without understanding how language is used socially, and social action cannot be understood without understanding how people are making use of the formal properties of language. Such approaches would take seriously both recent work in linguistics and social anthropology.

Registration Information

Download and mail pre-registration form (.pdf).

	Onsite Registration	Pre-registration
Non-student	$60	$50
Student	$30	$25
We can only accept payment in US dollars.

Co-chairs

Maria Luz Garcia (Anthropology) - mluzgarcia<at>yahoo.com

Jiwon Han (Communications) - offramp23<at>hotmail.com

Justin D. McIntosh (Linguistics) - justinm<at>mail.utexas.edu