<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">We have some individual submissions addressing language and affect. Given those submissions and inspired by really rich discussions of affect ethnography and queer affect at this year’s American Anthropology Association meetings, a panel on language/affect/sexuality is now in formation for this year Lav Lgs conference.</font><span style="font-size:13px"></span><p style="font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> If your work addresses these issues, and you want to share work-to-date at the conference, please send a proposal describing your intended presentation.</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> If you have interests in language/affect/sexuality studies and are looking for research ideas – this is an invitation to come to Lav 23 and be part of the audience. </font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Contact: Wlm Leap (</font><a href="mailto:wlm@american.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082bf" face="sans-serif"><u>wlm@american.edu</u></font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">) by December 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015. Earlier indications of interests are highly desirable. </font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best wishes, </font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Wlm L. Leap<br>Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC 20016</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Co-editor, Journal of Language and Sexuality </font><a href="http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br><br>"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) </font><br><br></p><span style="font-family:sans-serif">"Don't be a drag, just be a queen." Lady Gaga</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span><div><b style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-family:garamond,serif">Brian Adams-Thies, PhD</b><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><a href="mailto:brianat73@gmail.com" target="_blank">brianat73@gmail.com</a></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b>Facebook: Brian.Adams-Thies</b></font></div></div></div></div>
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