Update/announcement re the 20th anniversary, Lavender Languages Conference, Feb 15-17, 2013 American University Washington DC

[William Leap]

This is an update/reminder regarding the 20th anniversary Lavender 
Languages Conference, February 15-17 2013, American University Washington 
DC.
This year?s featured speakers include: Paul Baker, Tom Boellstorff, Kira 
Hall, E. Patrick Johnson, Lucy Jones, Tomasso Milani, Liz Morrish & Helen 
Sauntson, Heiko Motschenbacher, David Peterson, Denis Provencher. 
Tom Boellstorff hosts a Friday morning (Feb 15) workshop for conference 
attendees interested in getting their work published in professional 
journals. Boellstorff will review individual papers in advance of the 
workshop discussion. See details on the conference website: 
ww.american.edu/lavenderlanguages  . 
There are session on queer phonology, pornography, queer women?s 
discourses, corporal ambiguities, language and cybersexuality, lavender 
rhetoric and composition ?. and much, much more. 
Plus feminist historian Bonnie Morrish reads from her newly published DC 
memoir The Bar Notebooks, during the Saturday (Feb 16) lunch break. And 
visual artist 2Fik stages his multi-media performance presentation Piling 
Up Identities & destroying labels as part of the Saturday afternoon 
plenary session.
Visit the conference website (www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages) for a 
full program, logistics, information about housing (the special rate at 
the conference hotel expires soon, tho) and other details:  Follow us on 
Facebook and at @Lavlang on Twitter. 
I am happy to answer questions about the conference at any time. 
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

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