the 19th (!!) Lavender Languages Conference , February 10-12, 2012 , American University , Washington DC

[William Leap]

What we have planned for this year's conference includes: 
Special Events 
Reporting and Writing Queer Temporalities: Albania, Arkansas, North 
African Diaspora, Renaissance Harlem and Deaf Vietnam 
Voices from a Chorus:  The Language of Music, Understanding and Acceptance
1 girl, 5 gays and LGBTQ Discourses in School Settings  featuring 
television celebrity and gay activist Philip Tetro 
A Reading from "The Bar Notebook"   by feminist performance artist Bonnie 
Morris
Workshops 
Queer Corpora:  A corpus analysis of the discourse, linguistic, and 
semantic aspects of queer speech
Genderqueer Terminology: Beyond Pronouns
Scheduled sessions
Visualizing the social in the pornographic  message
Language and the Que(e)ry of Speciesism 
Pentecostalism, Language, and Homosexuality
Identity and Voice: Locating the Lavender in Composition and Rhetoric 
Studies 
Beyond the 'L' and 'G': Linguistic and Discursive Visibility for the 'B', 
'T', 'Q' and other "Others."
Queer women?s discourse and representation 
Performing and Placing Sexualities 
The Power of Discourse: Keeping LGBT Immigrants Marginalized 
Language and Internet Cruising 
 Language and Homophobic text    
More information about  special events, workshops and sessions will be 
available on the conference website,  www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages 
Information will be updated regularly.  I am happy to answer questions 
about the conference program and logistics at any time.
Best wishes, 
Wlm L. Leap ,Professor , Department of Anthropology, American University, 
Washington DC 20016
Co-editor, Journal of Language and Sexuality 
"It is not very hard to silence us, but that is not because we cannot 
speak."    --  a Bengali villager once remarked to Nobel prize winning 
economist  Amartya Sen  (The Argumentative Indian, Picador Book, 2005: 
xiii) 

"Don't be a drag, just be a queen!"  Lady Gaga