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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow">There are just a few days left to submit your abstracts to </span></strong><span style="color:black"><a href="https://exchange2010.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=wXwDYeF53caGv_8XC1BZDXDNUTWxGFm6jlYo4ZFJr_OKmC5UbLzUCA..&URL=mailto%3a%253cdiscoursesofmarriage%40gmail.com" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;text-decoration:none">discoursesofmarriage@gmail.com</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:yellow">
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<b><u><span style="color:black">BAAL/CUP Seminar Series FINAL Call for Papers - Deadline
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<b><u><span style="color:black">Discourses of Marriage</span></u></b><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="color:black">University of Liverpool 14-15</span></u></b><b><u><sup><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black">th</span></sup></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> September 2017</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Due to recent legislation changes in countries around the world, more people than ever before can now get married. Hosted in collaboration with the Discourses of Marriage Research Group (<a href="https://exchange2010.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=WntCQIj0tKHkwpezWNPM-A9VhbLeyGnfKlFNtpXswtuKmC5UbLzUCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fdiscoursesofmarriage.blogspot.co.uk%2f" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://discoursesofmarriage.blogspot.co.uk/</span></a>),
this two-day seminar aims to encourage scholarly interest in how marriage is conceptualised, normalised, defined, rejected, adapted, and debated through language.
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<span style="color:black">We invite submissions for <b>20-minute</b> papers to discuss any aspects of discourses of marriage in relation to language, but particularly encourage submissions in the following areas: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Historical and/or global perspectives on discourses of marriage </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">The language of marriage and equal marriage debates across cultures </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Discourses of (non-heteronormative) family structure and divorce </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Abstracts should be up to <b>300 words long </b>and should contain up to <b>five keywords</b>. Abstracts are to be submitted as Word documents to <a href="https://exchange2010.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=wXwDYeF53caGv_8XC1BZDXDNUTWxGFm6jlYo4ZFJr_OKmC5UbLzUCA..&URL=mailto%3a%253cdiscoursesofmarriage%40gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">discoursesofmarriage@gmail.com</span></a> by
the <b>30</b></span><b><sup><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black">th</span></sup></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> June 2017</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">. Submissions will be anonymised before review. Authors will
be notified of the organisers’ decisions by mid-July 2017. We encourage applications from scholars at all career stages and there will be two fee-waived places for student presenters. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The two-day seminar will be an opportunity to establish the state-of-the-art for linguistic research on marriage, marriage equality, divorce, etc. by bringing together researchers interested in this field. It is designed to spark discussion
about discourses of marriage by acting as a networking event and <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">we already have publishers interested in an edited collection of papers</span></strong>. For more information, please contact Laura Paterson
(<a href="https://exchange2010.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=PtPU9syLV25QsgC3uayfvGJ2fC5ZJ6VoGCE3HFyU1p-KmC5UbLzUCA..&URL=mailto%3alaura.paterson%40open.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">laura.paterson@open.ac.uk</span></a>) or Georgina Turner
(<a href="https://exchange2010.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=WXPRQ1XZ_YrBM3FsTQWh9aHLumBNtlTPSeyTA0YtRpmKmC5UbLzUCA..&URL=mailto%3ag.turner%40liverpool.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">g.turner@liverpool.ac.uk</span></a>). </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Best, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Laura<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Laura L Paterson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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