Fw: Lavender Languages 20, February 15-17, 2013

[William Leap]

This year?s conference celebrates  20 years   promoting language and 
sexuality studies. Featured speakers on this year?s program will include 
Paul Baker, Kira Hall, Tomasso Milani, Lucy Jones, Tom Boellstorff,  Liz 
Morrish & Helen Sauntson, E. Patrick Johnson, Heiko Motschenbacher, Denis 
Provencher and David Peterson.  Sessions in development address topics 
ranging from cyber-porn, (anti)homophobic discourse, language and sexual 
violence, sexualities in the Balkans , queer women's narratives, sounding 
"gay.?  Individual papers and proposals for sessions, roundtables or 
workshops  are welcomed.  Conference details and logistics are available 
at  www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages .  I am happy to answer any 
questions at any time:  wlm at american.edu 


Wlm L. Leap
Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC 
20016
Co-editor, Journal of Language and Sexuality    
www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls