[Gala-l] CFP Lavender Languages Conference Linguistic Landscapes Panel

[Chris VanderStouwe]

*Apologies in advance for cross-posting*

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 (cvanderstouwe at boisestate.edu) for information and 
submissions.

Link to conference website also provided below.

Best,

Dr. Chris VanderStouwe

Department of English, Boise State University


*Panel Title: Queering the Linguistic Landscape*
Session Email contact: Chris VanderStouwe 
*(cvanderstouwe@**boisestate.edu**)*
Discussant: Tommaso Milani (tommaso.milani at svenska.gu.se)

     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.
     Researchers interested in participating in this panel are invited 
to submit an abstract to the panel organizer by*27 October 2017 
*(cvanderstouwe at boisestate.edu).
     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.
     Paper presentations are 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

*Conference Website: https://lavenderlanguages.wordpress.com **
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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)

http://english.boisestate.edu/contact/chris-vanderstouwe/

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