[IGALA] CfP Sex in Romance: Perspectives to Gender and Sexuality in Romance Languages (25-27 August, 2025, Helsinki)

[julie.abbou at no-log.org]

1st Call for papers
Sex in Romance: Perspectives to Gender and Sexuality in Romance Languages
(SIR2025), 25-27 August 2025, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/sir2025


Conference Description

#SiR2025 is a three-day conference organized by the research
project Gender, society, and language use: Evidence from Mexico and
Spain and other researchers interested in language and gender at the
University of Helsinki. The conference brings together scholars working on
different perspectives to gender and sexuality in Romance languages from
different perspectives, including but not limited to sociolinguistics,
morphosyntax, pragmatics, social psychology, and phonetics.
While the study of language, gender and sexuality has become a central
research topic in linguistics in past decades, the vast majority of the
research has focused on the Anglosphere. In Romance linguistics, the
interplay of language, gender and sexuality has received less attention.
At the same time, there is a growing interest in phenomena like
gender-neutral or inclusive language and the connection between
grammatical and societal gender. The purpose of the conference is to
provide an international discussion forum for scholars interested in
different aspects of gender and sexuality in Romance languages. We include
all theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited
to the following:

        sociolinguistics of language, gender and sexuality
        interfaces between morphological and social gender
        pragmatics of gender and/or sexuality
        social psychology of language and gender
        corpus linguistic approaches to studying language and
gender/sexuality
        ethnographic approaches to studying language and gender/sexuality
        construction of gender and sexual identities in discourse
        queer and trans linguistics


The lingua franca of the conference is English, but we welcome submissions
and presentations in Romance languages as well. The planned length of
presentations is 20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and comments. More
info: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/sir2025/call-papers

Contact
If you have any questions or need more information concerning the
conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at
grp-sir2025 at helsinki.fi.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Submission of abstracts will open in the beginning of
February 2025 and the deadline is the 1st of April 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: early May, 2025


Organising committee

    Pekka Posio, University of Helsinki
    Sven Kachel, University of Kassel and University of Helsinki
    Fien de Latte, Ghent University and University of Helsinki
    Andrea Carcelén Guerrero, University of Helsinki
    Johanna Isosävi, University of Helsinki
    Iiris Rennicke, University of Helsinki
    Krista Leipivaara, University of Helsinki
    Mattia Retta, University of Helsinki