5-0670 TRACING STYLES, STYLING TRACES: ON THE PROCESSUALITY OF STYLE

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-15:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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Organizers: Eitan Y Wilf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Urmila Nair (Johns Hopkins University)

Chairs: Joseph D Hankins (University of California San Diego)

Discussants: Susan Gal (U Chicago)

13:45

Good Sign / Bad Sign: Spam, Sieves, and Style

Paul Kockelman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

14:00

The Strategic Construction of Distinctive Styles of Improvisation In An American Jazz Music Program

Eitan Y Wilf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

14:15

Secret Texts: Socialist Allegory In Contemporary Cuban Cinema

Laura-Zoe Humphreys (University of Chicago)

14:30

Screaming for Attention: Toward a Captivating Political Style

Joseph D Hankins (University of California San Diego)

14:45

The “Secret” Emerging: Revealing and Concealing the “Secret” (gsang ba) of a Tibetan Buddhist Ritual

Urmila Nair (Johns Hopkins University)

15:00

Discussant

Susan Gal (U Chicago)

15:15

Discussion

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