On Friday, November 7, 2025, Linguistic Anthropology faculty and graduate students shared their current work at a mini-conference in Brooks Hall! Below is a breakdown of the different presentations given:  

Lise Dobrin & Joseph Brooks

Recording and Transcribing Chini as a Plantation Project in Rural New Guinea  

Rachel Apone

Doubt-Casting  

Eve Danziger

The Map and the Territory: Pointing and Deixis as “Spatial Language” (on zoom)  

Colleen Winkelman

Horse Talk: Horse-Human Communities of Practice  

Aron Marie

“Don’t lose community control”: International Discourses of Sign Language Interpreting Ethics  

Erin Moriarty

Languaging or Linguistic Technoscience? Sign Languages as Sites of Creation, Negotiation & Adaption  

Mark Sicoli

Hierarchies are Interactional Achievements: The Mutual Aid Principles of Language in Interaction