#  Signs of Race, Racializing Signs 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 27, 2019** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Tozzer Anthropology Building, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

*The 2019 Roman Jakobson Symposium; co-sponsored by the Asia Center, the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and the Kim Koo Forum at the Harvard Korea Institute*

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For more than a century, [Sociocultural Anthropologists](https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2583) have argued for a critical reconceptualization of “race” to counter dominant and naturalized assumptions about the biological and hierarchical classification of human beings. This political and intellectual project concerns the problem of language, in terms of both the linguistic mediation of scientific and socio-political concepts, as well as the speech varieties associated with different populations. In recent decades, linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists have developed pathbreaking ethnographic methods and analytical tools for explaining the fused semiotic processes of racialization and racism, especially the covert interpenetrations of linguistic structure, practice, and ideology that produce “race” as we experience (or deny) it today. The inaugural Roman Jakobson Symposium features scholars whose research unveils the semiotic elements of racialization and racism that shape contemporary life and politics.  
  
**Elaine Chun**  
Associate Professor, English Department and Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina  
  
**Paul Kroskrity**  
Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA  
  
**Adrienne Lo**  
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo  
  
**Angela Reyes**  
Professor in the Department of English, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center  
  
**Jonathan Rosa**  
Assistant Professor of Education, Stanford University  
  
**Krystal Smalls**  
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  
  
Organized by **Nicholas Harkness**, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

*The 2019 Roman Jakobson Symposium has received generous support from the* [*Asia Center*](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/)*, the* [*Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights*](https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/)*, and the Kim Koo Forum at the* [*Harvard Korea Institute*](/)*.*



 

 



 

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