The Linguistic Anthropology Laboratory is a newly established research facility providing both equipment and a research environment for state of the art analysis of language, culture, and society, especially using audio, video, and photographic recordings of natural interaction. The laboratory is equipped with a variety of workstations, both PC and Mac, for multimodal editing and analysis, as well as a high speed network and large capacity server for storing and sharing high quality digitized materials. The lab also has excellent projection and sound facilities and thus can serve as a seminar room for classes and group discussions. Anthropology students and faculty with interest in multimodal recording and analysis are encouraged to use the laboratory, which has lockable individual storage spaces, and also a small kitchen facility. For more information please contact Prof. John B. Haviland (jhaviland@ucsd.edu).

Upcoming and past events

Monday, November 10, 2008, 1pm
Sonya Pritzker (Anthropology, UCLA)
Language socialization and ideologies of translation in American Chinese medical education

Monday, October 13, 2008, 12:45pm - 2pm
Isabel Galhano Rodrigues (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto)
Micro-analyzing face-to-face interaction. About some ways body movements accompany speech
(Prof. Rodrigues is a Fulbright Fellow at the Linguistics Anthropology laboratory during Winter Quarter 2008.)

Friday, October10, 2008, 11am - 1pm
Clara Saraiva (Instituto de Investigação Cientifica Tropical/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Possessed by Brazilian spirits in Portugal—Afro-Brazilian cults in Lisbon (abstract).
Prof. Saraiva is currently Visiting Professor at Brown University and a Research Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University

Friday, June 6, 2008, 3:00-4:30 pm
Saúl Mercado, (Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Linguistic Citizenship: Immigration, Social Cohesion, and Education in Barcelona, Spain (abstract)

Monday, June 2 2008, 12:00pm–1:30pm
Geoffrey T.Raymond (UCSB, Sociology)
Limb Data Session. Linguistic Anthropology Lab (SSRB 340)

Thursday, May 29 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Rafael Nuñez (UCSD, Cognitive Science)

Facing the sunrise: mind, world, and culture in the bodily-based lexicalization of east-west absolute frames of reference in Aymara Talk abstract

LIMB data session
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12-1:00
Simeon Floyd (Texas, Anthropology)
Gesture and time in the Amazonian language Nheengatú

Thursday, May 8, 2008, 3-4:30 pm
Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long Beach-Linguistics),Cooperation and new models of bilingual education on Corsica. Linguistic Anthropology Lab (Social Science Research Building 340). Talk abstract

LIMB DATA SESSION
Monday, May 5 at 12pm - Carol Padden (UCSD, Communication) Dr. Padden will lead us in a data session at 12, followed by refreshments. Linguistic Anthropology Lab (Social Science Research Building 340).

Thursday, April 24, 3-4:30
Claire Ramsey, Education Studies, UCSD
"Language Origin and Extinction: Narratives of Elderly Deaf Signers in Mexico City". 340CRB. Reception follows. Talk abstract

LIMB DATA SESSION
Moday April 21 at 12pm - Barry Brown (UCSD, Communication) Dr. Brown will lead us in a data session at 12, followed by refreshments. He will then give a talk at 2pm about his current research. Linguistic Anthropology Lab (Social Science Research Building 340).

Thursday, April 10, 3-4:30
Susan U. Philips, Prof. Emerita of Anthropology, University of Arizona
"How Tongans Make Sense of Variation in the Use of Lexical Honorifics". 340CRB. Reception follows. Talk abstract.

Monday, March 24, 12-3
Alessandra Fasulo
University of Rome, Psychology Department. Narrative and Gesture in a Southern Italy clothing factory. Talk handout.

Monday, March 17, 3-5
Joel Kuipers, Georgetown University.
Material witnesses: Langauge, objects & participation in middle school.

Monday, March 10, 3:30- 5
Keith McNeil, UCSD Anthropology.
Performing Divinity with a Difference: Iconopraxis and Dual-Embodiment in African and Hindu Traditions of Spirit Mediumship in the Southern Caribbean. Paper.

Feburary, 28. 3:30-5
Kensy Cooperider, UCSD Cognitive Science Graduate Student.
Adult Pointing Gestures.

Friday, December 7, 2007
Chuck Goodwin UCSL
All day seminar (see video below).