Month: November 2008

  • Ph.D. candidate getting published in SLA journal

    Alejandro Paz, Ph.D. candidate for the joint degree in Anthropology and Linguistics, has won the annual prize given by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology for a graduate student paper. “The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor: Gossip, Evidentiality and Authority in the Perspective of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel”  will appear in an upcoming issue of…

  • Debenport to present at annual anthropology conference

    The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which will be in San Francisco from November 19 through 23, will include a paper given by Chicago’s own Erin Debenport. Erin’s paper, “Private Notice: Negotiating Secrecy in Public Uses of a Pueblo Language,” is part of the excitingly titled panel “Privates and Counterprivates,” which will focus…

  • CLS conference proceedings go digital

    Just a reminder to the many who have already heard the exciting news, and a happy word of announcement to those who may not have: You may have been hearing rumors for the last year or so that CLS is hatching a plan to get the conference proceedings online. Well, the day has finally come!!! Right now,…