<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear colleagues:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'd like to draw your attention to the following panel we are organizing for this May's Lavender Languages conference. (Conference website: <a href="https://lavlang26.wordpress.com">https://lavlang26.wordpress.com</a>).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Scott<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2"><b>Affect in language and language in affect: Exploring sexualities and desire through affective practice<br></b></font><br>Affect has received increasing interest in a number of fields (special issue on language/sexuality/affect in Journal of Language and Sexuality 2018; Reeser & Gottzén 2018; Massumi 2017; Zerilli 2015; Wetherell 2014; Seigworth 2010; Blackman & Venn 2010; Henriques 2010; Manning 2010). A central insight of affect theory is that affect and cognition “are not two different systems, but radically entangled” (Zerilli 2015: 282), with “no neat and easy dividing lines between physical affect and discourse” (Wetherell 2014: 14). Further, theorists have questioned the fundamental Cartesian postulate of a Self that is independent from an Other: Margaret Wetherell suggests that “affect is distributed. It is an in-between, relational phenomenon” (2014: 20, italics in original), while Brian Massumi claims that “[e]very encounter is an affective complex, a patterning of capacities to affect and be affected. This is not a dualism, but a relational matrix” (2017: 49). Looking at individuals as discrete speaking subjects misses the larger affective, relational complexes in which individuals exist. Affects circulate, disrupting or uniting communities (Kiesling 2018; Henriques, Tiainen, & Väliaho 2014; Stewart 2007; O’Sullivan 2001), creating relational effects that are crucial to marginalized communities (Allen 2012; Johnson 2001).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">While some scholars have broadened their understanding of the affective, relational constitution of the self, many of us generally operate under a Cartesian assumption of an independent speaking subject, whose language can be fruitfully examined in isolation. The goal of this panel is to bring together scholars of language who are considering the circuiting of affect in the language of sexuality and the language of sexuality in affect, or both. Work can come from any number of fields (e.g., linguistic anthropology, linguistics, literature, sexuality studies, film theory) as long as affect, language, and sexuality are part of the story.<br><br>We are privileged to have as discussant Prof. Lucas Gottzén of Stockholm University, who has written extensively about masculinities, affect, and parenthood (see Gottzén 2017a,b and Reeser & Gottzén 2018).<br><br>If interested, please email Scott Kiesling (<a href="mailto:kiesling@pitt.edu">kiesling@pitt.edu</a>) and/or Christina Schoux Casey (<a href="mailto:casey@cgs.aau.dk">casey@cgs.aau.dk</a>) with your 250-word abstract prepared using the following guidelines: <a href="https://lavlang26.wordpress.com/abstract-submission-info-2">https://lavlang26.wordpress.com/abstract-submission-info-2</a>. However, please contact the organizers before submitting to the conference abstract system. Abstracts are due to the organizers by November 11. If you have already submitted an abstract that fits the description and are interested in being part of the panel, please write and let us know.<br><br><b>References</b><br>Allen, Jafari. 2012. Black/queer/diaspora at the current conjuncture. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 18(2–3), 211–248. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1472872">https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1472872</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Blackman, Lisa, & Venn, Couze. 2010. Affect. Body & Society, 16(1), 7–28. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X09354769">https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X09354769</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Gottzén, L. 2017a. Geographies of Anger and Fear: Exploring the Affective Atmospheres of Men’s ‘Domestic’Violence. In M. Livholts & L. Bryant (Eds.), Social Work in a Glocalised World (pp. 122-134). New York: Routledge.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Gottzén, Lucas. 2017b. Monsters in the closet: The affective spaces of (not) coming out as a violent man. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16 (3), 528-47. <a href="https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1370">https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1370</a>.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Reeser, Todd, & Lucas Gottzén. 2018. Masculinity and affect: New possibilities, new agendas. NORMA, 1-13. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2018.1528722">https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2018.1528722</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Henriques, Julian. 2010. The vibrations of affect and their propagation on a night out on Kingston’s dancehall scene. Body & Society, 16(1), 57–89. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X09354768">https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X09354768</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Henriques, Julian, Milla Tiainen, & Pasi Väliaho. 2014. Rhythm returns: movement and cultural theory. Body & Society, 20(3–4), 3–29. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14547393">https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14547393</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Johnson, E. Patrick. 2001. “Quare” studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother. Text and Performance Quarterly, 21(1), 1–25. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10462930128119">https://doi.org/10.1080/10462930128119</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Kiesling, Scott F. 2018. Masculine stancetaking and the linguistics of affect: On masculine ease. NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies. Special Issue: Masculinity and Affect. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2018.1431756">https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2018.1431756</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Manning, Erin. 2010. Always more than one: the collectivity of a Life. Body & Society, 16(1), 117–127. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X09354128">https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X09354128</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Massumi, Brian. 2017. The Principle of unrest. Open Humanities Press.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Seigworth, Greg. 2010. An inventory of shimmers. In M. Gregg & G. J. Seigworth (Eds.), The affect theory reader (pp. 1–28). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Wetherell, Margaret. 2015. Trends in the turn to affect: A social psychological critique. Body & Society, 21(2), 139–166. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14539020">https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14539020</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Zerilli, Linda. 2015. The turn to affect and the problem of judgment. New Literary History, 46(2), 261–286. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2015.0019">https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2015.0019</a> <br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Scott F. Kiesling, PhD<br>Professor</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">Department Chair (as of Sept.1)</div></span>
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Department of Linguistics<br>
University of Pittsburgh, 2816 CL<br>
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