#  Program 

 



 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

 [Nicholas Harkness](/roman-jakobson-symposium/), Department of Anthropology  
[Steven Caton](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/steve-caton), Department of Anthropology

 10:30 – 12:00

 **Strategies of Lexical Excavation: Making Covertly Racist Language Hearable**  
[Elaine Chun](https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/our_people/directory/chun_elaine.php), University of South Carolina

 **Language Ideologies and the Racialization of Native Americans:  
Covert Linguistic Racism and Settler-colonial Indexical Orders**  
[Paul Kroskrity](https://anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/paul-v-kroskrity), University of California Los Angeles

 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

 1:00 – 2:30

 **Real Black: Emphatically Black Signs and Fugitive Humanity in Digital Space**  
[Krystal Smalls](https://linguistics.illinois.edu/directory/profile/ksmalls), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 **Race, Image, Empire: Poetic Structures of Philippine Differentiation**  
[Angela Reyes](http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/english/angela-reyes/), Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

 2:30 – 2:45 Coffee Break

 2:45 – 4:15

 **American Apprehensions: A Semiotics of Racial and Linguistic Profiling**  
[Jonathan Rosa](https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/jdrosa), Stanford University

 **Racialization as Metasemiotic Theory**  
[Adrienne Lo](https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/people-profiles/adrienne-lo), University of Waterloo

 4:15 – 4:45 Closing Remarks

 [Marcyliena Morgan](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/marcyliena-morgan), Department of African and African American Studies

 Reception