Previous Conferences

Full List of Previous Conferences:

2021:

2020:

2019:

2021 “Making Authority, Multimodally” / Keynote: Lilly Irani

2019 “Intangibilities” / Keynote: Liz Gunner
2018: Significations of Modality and Value / KeyNote:
2017: The Writing’s On the Wall / KeyNote:
2016: Technologies of Semiosis / KeyNote:
2015:  Bad Habits / KeyNote:
2014: Coordinating Continuities: Language and Sameness Across Time and Space /
2013: Nice Form: Aesthetics, Poetics, Techniques (Ann Arbor)
2012:  Defaults and Difference (Chicago)
2011:  The Trouble With Doubles (Ann Arbor)
2010:  Linguistic Terrains: Landscapes & Socioscapes (Chicago)
2009:  Ambiguity – Confusion – Creativity – Play (Ann Arbor)
2008:  Linguistic Worlds in Collision (Chicago)
2007:  Documents and Inscriptions (Ann Arbor)
2006:  Language Trust (Chicago)
2005:  Voice and Inequality (Ann Arbor)
2004:  Evidence, Authority, Legitimation   (Chicago)
2003:  Politics, Performance, and the Sign   (Ann Arbor)
2002:  New Medias, New Publics   (Chicago)
2001:  Politics and Poetics   (Ann Arbor)
2000:  Anthropologies and Histories of Language   (Chicago)
1999:  Inaugural Conference   (Ann Arbor)