LINGUIST List 25.3074
Tue
Jul 29 2014
Calls: Sociolinguistics,
General Linguistics/USA
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Jul-2014
From: Kris Knisely
<krisknisely
gmail.com>
Subject: 22nd Annual Lavender
Languages Conference
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Full Title: 22nd Annual Lavender Languages
Conference
Date: 13-Feb-2015 - 15-Feb-2015
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Contact Person: William Leap
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2014
Meeting Description:
Panel on Language Learning and Sexuality at the
22nd Annual Lavender Languages Conference
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Dates: February 13–15, 2015
Website:
http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages/
Commitment:
Lav 22 offers discussions of language and
sexuality that draw on current debates in
anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics,
sexuality studies, and queer theory to examine
diverse voices and experiences.
Atmosphere:
The conference proudly maintains a 'no
attitude' atmosphere. The conference setting is
deliberately informal. The program includes
many opportunities for formal and informal
discussion. Fees are deliberately suppressed to
ensure that registration is affordable for the
widest possible audience. Conference activities
take place in accessible sites. And, with
sufficient advance notice, all events have
sign-language support. No one attending Lav 22
need feel alone, out-of-place, or unloved.
Program Planning:
Already there are several sessions under
development with titles and contact details,
and session descriptions will soon follow. Your
ideas for a session or your plans for your own,
individual paper are welcome, of course.
Contact the conference coordinator for
details.
About the Choice of Conference Dates:
Lav 21 had to be compressed (from 3 days to 2)
owing to a snowstorm and its effects on air
travel. We considered changing the conference
dates to a time later in the month or later in
the spring. But truthfully, any date we select
before spring break will coincide with the
possibility of snowfall. And any date after
spring break coincides with someone's national
or regional meetings. The plan is to try
Valentine's weekend again, hoping that
snowflakes won't strike twice in the same place
two years in a row. If we need to regroup on
this policy after Lav 22, we will.
Logistics:
Information about campus logistics and
information on accommodations is posted
elsewhere on the website. Please note that we
will once again negotiate a block of hotel
rooms at a site convenient to campus and at a
reasonable weekend rate. To confirm rooms at
this rate, conference participants are asked to
make reservations through the hotel website by
mid-January. Details will be available at
Accommodations.
Please message back (wlm
american.edu) at any time if you
have questions about the conference program or
related logistics.
Wlm L. Leap
Conference Coordinator
Lavender Languages 22
Call for Papers:
Deadline for proposal submission: December 1,
2014
Although considerations of identity have become
increasingly present in the literature on
language learning, sexuality remains
infrequently discussed in this domain. This
panel seeks to explore questions sexuality in
language learning and welcomes proposals that
treat this topic from a variety of theoretical
perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds.
Papers currently under development for this
session engage with student sexual identity and
sexuality-related perceptions of language
varieties using Dörnyei’s theoretical L2
self-system. In this system, imagined future
second language selves serve as a motivator or
demotivator for language acquisition. Papers
for this session may consider a range of topics
in language learning and sexuality including,
but not limited to, the treatment of sexuality
in the language classroom, the sexuality of
language learners and teachers, as well as
students’ and teachers’ perceptions of foreign
languages as sexualized.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be
submitted to Kris Knisely, session organizer,
by December 1, 2014.
Contact: Kris Knisely (Emory University),
krisknisely
gmail.com
Please see the ''Sessions Under Development''
web page for additional calls for papers:
http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages/sessions.cfm
Page Updated: 29-Jul-2014