Registration open for BAAL/CUP Discourses of Marriage Seminar 14-15 September

[Laura.Paterson]

Apologies for cross posting

We are pleased to announce that the programme for the BAAL/CUP Seminar on Discourses of Marriage to be held at the University of Liverpool on the 14th and 15th September is now available.

The event includes a plenary by Dr Lucy Jones<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/lucy.jones> from the University of Nottingham titled 'But think of the children! The ongoing salience of heteronormativity in UK discourses of marriage'.

We also have a film screening of Growing Up Married: A Documentary About Forced Marriage In Turkey followed by a Q&A session hosted by the film's director Dr Eylem Atakav<https://www.uea.ac.uk/film-television-media/people/profile/e-atakav> from the University of East Anglia.

There are also ten papers from scholars around the globe looking at discourses of marriage in a range of national and international contexts. A full copy of the conference programme is included below.

For more details and to register your place see our events page here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discourses-of-marriage-baalcup-seminar-tickets-36402138777

University of Liverpool 14-15th September 2017         School of the Arts, 1st Floor Library

Day 1
10:30

Opening & BAAL welcome

10:45

Session 1: François Labatut, Sorbonne-Nouvelle University
Is marriage really the gold standard? Contrasting metaphorical representations of ‘marriage’ during Obergefell v. Hodges in the US.


11:15

Session 2: Ursula Kania, University of Liverpool
Marriage for all (‘Ehe fuer alle’)?! A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the equal marriage debate in Germany.


11:45

Session 3: Eric Ku, National Taiwan Normal University
“First in Asia”: A Linguistic Landscape Study of Marriage Equality Protest Signage in Taiwan.

12:15

Lunch

13:00

Session 4: Mark McGlashan, Birmingham City University
"Very well, Mother. I'll marry. I must say, though, I've never cared much for princesses": Negotiating discourses of sexuality and same-sex marriage in children’s literature.


13:30

Session 5: Jai Mackenzie, University of Birmingham
“Darling” husbands and partners in Mumsnet Talk.


14:00

Session 6 [Skype]: Mieke Vandenbroucke, University of California, Berkley
Legal-discursive constructions of genuine cross-border love in Belgian marriage fraud investigations.


14:30

Coffee

15:00

Film screening (followed by Q&A):
Dr Eylem Atakav, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia
Growing Up Married: A Documentary About Forced Marriage In Turkey

16:15

Approx. finish


Day 2
10:00

Plenary:
Dr Lucy Jones, Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham
But think of the children! The ongoing salience of heteronormativity in UK discourses of marriage.

11:00

Coffee

11:30

Session 7: Xing Wang, Loughborough University
How Neoliberal Self Encounters Marriage: Transformation and Discourses of Chinese Dating Shows.


12:00

Session 8: Pia Pitchler, Goldsmiths, University of London
I want it to be lively - like a white person’s wedding where everyone is laughing.

12:30

Lunch

13:15

Session 9: Sergio Silvero, Edge Hill University
A feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis of older never married women’s definitions of marital status and identity: The “Spinsters”, the “Singletons”, and the “Superheroes”.


13:45

Session 10: Clement Akran, Canterbury Christ Church University
‘Everything Has Changed Except Our Way of Thinking’: An analysis on reporting of non-monogamous relationships in British Newspapers.


14:15

Coffee

14:30

Round Table

15:30

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