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<p>*Apologies in advance for cross-posting*</p>
<p>Please see below for details on a new panel being organized for
the 25th Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference held April
20-22, 2018 at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI. Contact
session organizer Dr. Chris VanderStouwe
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cvanderstouwe@boisestate.edu">cvanderstouwe@boisestate.edu</a>) for information and submissions.<br>
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<p>Link to conference website also provided below.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Dr. Chris VanderStouwe</p>
<p>Department of English, Boise State University<br>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Panel Title:
Queering the Linguistic Landscape</strong><br>
Session Email contact: Chris VanderStouwe <b>(cvanderstouwe@</b><b><span
class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: inherit;">boisestate.edu</span></b><b>)</b><br
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Discussant: Tommaso Milani (tommaso.milani@<span
class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: inherit;">svenska.gu.se</span>)<br>
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While Linguistic Landscape research has expanded greatly over
the last several years (e.g. Landry and Bourhis 1997, Scollon and
Scollon 2003, Cenoz and Gorter 2006), much of the focus has been in
multilingual settings, exploring issues of power, tourism, history,
and more. By comparison, relatively little scholarship has been
conducted on the linguistic landscape in terms of gender and
sexuality. (cf. Piller 2010, Milani and Levon 2016, VanderStouwe
2016) Following a call by Milani (2014) “that gender and sexuality
should be paid serious attention by Linguistic Landscape scholars,
not least because of the political loading of these social
categories,” this panel seeks papers from any language-related field
exploring both physical and digital linguistic landscapes with a
focus on gender and sexuality related analyses. Topics may include
both overt and covert displays of gender and/or sexuality in the
physical or digital landscape including, but not limited to,
pinkwashing, politics, (homo)nationalism, tourism, online dating,
and many others.<br>
Researchers interested in participating in this panel are
invited to submit an abstract to the panel organizer by<b> 27
October 2017 </b>(cvanderstouwe@<span class="skimlinks-unlinked"
style="box-sizing: inherit;">boisestate.edu</span>).<br>
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words (excluding
references) and include the presentation title, presenter’s name,
affiliation, and email address. Abstracts must situate the research
within the field, and provide links to the nature of sexed signs and
ways that a queer theoretical lens can be applied to their work.<br
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Paper presentations are 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for
discussion.<br>
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<b>Conference Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lavenderlanguages.wordpress.com">https://lavenderlanguages.wordpress.com</a> </b><b><br>
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Dr. Chris VanderStouwe
Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of English
Advisory Board, Gender Studies Program
Boise State University
Office: Riverfront Hall 213M (Enter through Room 214)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://english.boisestate.edu/contact/chris-vanderstouwe/">http://english.boisestate.edu/contact/chris-vanderstouwe/</a>
Go Broncos!</pre>
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