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<p class="Pa0"><span class="A0"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-weight:normal">Announcing the first
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<p class="Pa0"><b><span style="font-size:29.0pt;color:black">LAVENDER LANGUAGES INSTITUTE
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<p class="Pa0"><span style="font-size:25.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft New Tai Lue",sans-serif;color:black">At Florida Atlantic University
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<p class="Pa0"><span class="A6"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">For those interested in language and sexuality studies...
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<p class="Pa0"><span class="A4"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-style:normal">Six days of workshops, discussion sessions, and informal conversations explore topics of current interest in language and sexuality studies, queer linguistics, and various lavender
language themes. </span></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Pa0"><span class="A4"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="Pa0"><span class="A4"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-style:normal">TOPICS:
</span></b></span><span class="A4"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-style:normal">Critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language/sexuality/history; language and the queer of color critique; language, sexuality and postcolonial theory; language
and sexuality in diaspora. </span></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Pa0"><span class="A4"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-style:normal">Plus, defining a language/sexuality research problem, securing research funding, publishing findings, and queer classroom pedagogy.
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<p class="Pa0"><span class="A0"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Pa0"><span class="A0"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">June 24-30 2018
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</span><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">FAU Boca Raton campus
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<p class="Pa0"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Pa0"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Featuring faculty from across the globe</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Pa1"><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">Heiko Motschenbacher
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and FAU),
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">William Leap
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(FAU)</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">,</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Pa1"><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">Michael J. Horswell
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(FAU)</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">, Ashvin R. Kini
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(FAU)</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">, Nikki Lane
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(American U), <o:p>
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<p class="Pa1"><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">David Peterson
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(U Nebraska- Omaha)</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">, Maria Amelia Viteri
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(Universidad San Francisco de Quito),<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Pa1"><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-style:normal">Jose de la Garza Valenzuela
</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">(FAU) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="Pa1"><span class="A4"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-style:normal">To register and for more information visit, www.fau.edu/artsandletters/lavender-languages
</span></b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Pa0"><span class="A4"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Pa0"><span class="A4"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Cost: $250 administrative fee in lieu of tuition
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<p class="Pa1"><span class="A4"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Deadline to register April 1, 2018
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<p class="Pa1"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Proudly Sponsored by: Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">www.fau.edu/artsandletters/wgss/</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wlm L Leap, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Affiliate Professor, Center for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Founding Editor, Journal of Language & Sexuality <span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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