#  Roman Jakobson Symposium 2021-2022 

 



#### SEMINARS WITH THE HARVARD-YENCHING PROGRAM IN LINGUISTIC AND SEMIOTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

##### FALL 2021

5 November  
Franciscu Sedda, University of Cagliari, Sardinia  
*Invisible Translations: Bridging Pragmatist and Structuralist Approaches to Semiotic Analysis*  
  
12 November  
Franciscu Sedda, University of Cagliari, Sardinia  
*Semiotics, Sovereignty, and Self-Consciousness: The Case of Sardinia*

3 December  
Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University  
*Social Poetics*

##### SPRING 2022

23 February  
Angela Reyes, CUNY Graduate Center  
Stanton Wortham, Boston College  
*Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event*

4 March   
Lily Hope Chumley, New York University  
*Multimodality and Semiotic Change*

11 March   
Paja Faudree, Brown University  
*Writing, Speaking, Singing (and Whistling)*

1 April  
Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago  
*Voicing, Looking, Perspective*

15 April   
Janet McIntosh, Brandeis University  
*Language, Embodiment, and the U.S. Military*

29 April  
Graham Jones, MIT  
*Qualities and Quantities of Evidence*

6 May  
Robert Moore, University of Pennsylvania  
*Memes as Metalanguage: Entitlement, Citationality, Staged Infelicity*

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WORKSHOP ON SEMIOTICS RESEARCH  
17 – 18 May

Yuichi Asai, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (HYI)  
*From Textual to Ritual: Semiotics on the Stranger-King in Contemporary Fiji*

Xi Chen, University of Central Lancashire (Harvard Korea Institute)  
*Learners’ Understanding of Indexical Meaning*

Yiwei Fang, Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard  
*Narrating A Past Qinhuai: A Courtesan Genre, Corruptive Songs, and National Crises*

Christian Go, National University of Singapore (HYI)  
*Pride Regimes and the Semiotic Landscape of the Metro Manila Pride March*

Ayumi Inouchi, University of Tsukuba (HYI)  
*Cute, Stylish, and Soft: Aesthetic Textuality of South Korea in Contemporary Japan*

Charisma Lepcha, Sikkim University (HYI)  
*Colonial Recursivity, Post-Colonial Reproduction, and Decolonial Reclamation of Lepcha Language in India*

Yin (Eric) Liu, University of Hong Kong (HYI)  
*A Multidisciplinary Approach to Communication Inequality in China: The Case of Rural Chinese*

Rui Sun, Chinese University of Hong Kong (HYI)  
*On the Beauty of Fresh-cut Flowers: Materiality, Qualia, and Semiotic Ideology*

Madoka Tsuchida, The University of Tokyo (HYI)  
*The Poetics of Bodies: From Sign Language to Dance*

Ting Wang, Fudan University (Harvard Anthropology)  
*The “Flexibility” of Miao Drum-Centered Rituals in Southwest China*

Chen Xue, University of Electronic Science And Technology of China (HYI)  
*Lady Welby and Significs*

Xingzhi Zhao, Sichuan University (HYI)  
*C.S. Peirce and Semiotic Triangle(s) in Early China*