20th Annual Lavender Languages Conference: Update

[William Leap]

The list of sessions under development for the 20th (!!) annual Lavender 
Languages Conference has expanded, . Along with discussions of 
(anti)homophobia, queer women's discourses,  porn,  sounding lgbtq,  and 
language and violence,  there are sessions addressing   lavender 
composition and rhetoric (the 4th year for this theme) and  language and 
queer online communities.  Colleagues at Gallaudet are developing a 
session which will bring queer language perspectives to deafness and sign 
language. The list of featured speakers is clustering into some single 
presentations and also some round-table-like  panels  where speakers 
exchange idea of current research topics,  language, sexuality and 
nationalism being one. 

Your proposal for a conference presentation (or session)  is welcome. We 
are asking to receive submissions by November 5th. 

Details and contact information displayed at 
www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages. 

Best wishes, 

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

"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 Books, 2005: 
xiii) 

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