Reminder: call for participants - panel on youth, gender, & sexuality

[Zubair, Cala A.]

Greetings,

We are organizing a panel for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association to be held in Chicago, IL on  November 20-24, 2013. We invite proposals for research on youth, gender, and sexuality and fitting with the panel description below. If you're interesting in joining the panel, please forward a 250 word abstract to <zubairc at uncw.edu> on or around March 1st.

Sincerely,

Cala Zubair, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Lyn Fogle, Mississippi State University

Title: Diverse genders, mobile sexualities: Transnational articulations of youth identity

Panel description: As Bucholtz & Skapoulli (2009) note, youth language is increasingly mobile and diverse, traversing national and cultural boundaries to produce fused and re-signified identities. This panel explores gender and sexual identity among youth across multiple scales, between and at the intersection of the local and global. Papers focus on interactional contexts where youth negotiate gender and sexuality to express, understand, and transform their environment, including how youth tie their gender and sexuality to place, policy, and ideology. Paper topics highlight youth language in multilingual contexts, youth expressions of gender and sexuality in the reinterpretation of global discourses, how youth identities are situated across multiple spaces, and youth engagement with political and educational processes through gender and sexuality (Berg, 2012; Bucholtz & Skapoulli, 2009; King & De Fina, 2010; Liddicoat, 2009; Nelson, 2011).

Organizers: Lyn Fogle & Cala Zubair
Discussant: Elaine Chun, University of South Carolina

Additional requirements for panel participants: Presenters on a panels are responsible for submitting their own individual abstracts (of no more than 250 words), paper title and keywords via the American Anthropological Associations' online submission system (visit the AAA website for further information).  Organizers are NOT able to upload individual abstracts on behalf of presenters on the panel. Presenters must be current members of the AAA unless eligible for a membership exemption (anthropologists living outside of the US/Canada or non-anthropologists) and have paid registration for the 2013 Annual Meeting in order to upload abstract information. Presenters must submit this information by 5:00pm EDT on Monday, April 15, 2013.