call for AAA2000 papers

[Clark, John]

Speaking of Last Calls:

The "Claiming the Center" panel started up by me and Scott Kiesling,
featuring Bonnie McElhinney as a discussant has room for a couple more
papers. (the orginal call follows) If you're interested send me an e-mail
ASAP indicating interest.

How is the *center*
claimed and achieved  as white, male, heterosexual, oral/aural,
able-bodied etc. through global and local textual and interactional
practices? How is the "unmarked marker" status of whiteness, inter alia,
claimed and resisted through processes of centering and othering? How
are these same processes masked so as to attribute a timeless and
natural centered-status to these same groups? Finally, how are these
processes resisted and unmasked in global and face-to-face interaction?

John T. Clark
Professor Linguistics/English
California State University, Chico
jtclark at csuchico.edu
(530) 898-5453

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> From: 	Laada Bilaniuk
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 21, 2000 1:42 PM
> To: 	linganth at cc.rochester.edu; AnthEurasia-L at fas.harvard.edu
> Cc: 	jad5 at ualberta.ca
> Subject: 	call for AAA2000 papers
>
> Last-minute call for papers for AAA 2000 in San Francisco:
>
> Blurring the Lines:  Crossing Borders of Gender and Language in the
> Post-Soviet World
> (may be revised to "post-communist" to include non-Soviet regions)
>
> We are organizing a panel on gender, language and border-crossing in the
> post-Soviet (or more broadly post-communist) world.  We invite papers that
> explore gender and language, how their borders are being defined, and/or
> how
> gendered identities play a role in the construction or blurring of other
> boundaries, be they linguistic, political, or social.
>
> We are looking for 3 or 4 more papers; we have a discussant lined up.
> If you are interested in participating, please contact J. Dickinson
> (jad5 at ualberta.ca) or Laada Bilaniuk (bilaniuk at u.washington.edu) with a
> paper idea or abstract.
>
> Logistics:
> Since we have to mail out all the forms and applications by March 30,
> please
> respond as soon as possible.  If we can include you in the panel, we will
> ask you to fax the application forms; or we can fill out the application
> forms for you if you send us the information by e-mail.
>
>
> We look forward to hearing from you,
>
> J. Dickinson and Laada Bilaniuk
>
>
> --
> Laada Bilaniuk
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Washington
>