Etikettarkiv: sexuality

CfP: Language, gender and sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives 12-13th October 2023

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Language, gender and sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives 12–13th October 2023
University of Helsinki, Finland.
First Call for Papers

The intersections of language, gender and sexuality have become central topics of interest for researchers from many fields, but gender and sexuality categories are often handled in a simplistic manner, for example as fixed binary variables. However, these are both complex categories which require new theoretical understanding and methodological orientations. With the aim of bringing together both national and international scholars interested in language and gender and/or sexuality, we are organizing a two-day conference on October 12 and 13, 2023 at the University of Helsinki. All presentations will be given in person.

The call for papers for the conference is open to all scholars focusing on language. In particular, we hope to receive abstracts on studies utilizing queer theories or feminist approaches (e.g., intersectional feminism), but we welcome abstracts on any topics related to language and gender and/or sexuality. Both established and younger researchers are encouraged to participate. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

queer (linguistic) theory/methods
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 sociophonetics

With these themes in mind, we have invited two plenary speakers, who will both also lead a methodological workshop:

Dr. Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham:
Plenary: Constructions of identity and embodiment in the discourse of trans youth
Workshop: Doing ethnography in queer and trans linguistics: Issues, concepts, and reflections

Dr. Frazer Heritage, Manchester Metropolitan University:
Plenary: Lavender corpus linguistics: taking stock and moving forward
Workshop: Corpus approaches to language and sexuality: tackling methodological challenges

Submission details:

Abstracts should be 250 words in length (excluding references), and they can be written in English or Finnish. Likewise, accepted papers can be presented either in English or Finnish.
All abstracts should be submitted via email langgegesex(@)helsinki.fi by May 11th. Instructions for the abstract layout are provided on the website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/language-gender-and-sexuality-theoretical-and-methodological-perspectives/call-papers

Notification of acceptance will be sent in early June.

The conference is funded by the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities. There is no registration fee for presenters.

Please contact langgesex(@)helsinki.fi  if you have any questions.

Conference website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/language-gender-and-sexuality-theoretical-and-methodological-perspectives

Organizers:
Pekka Posio, Jarmo Jantunen, Laura Hekanaho, Meri Lindeman, Sanni Surkka and Annina Pura


The Kink Community in Finland: Affect, Belonging, and Everyday Life (2023)

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Johanna Pohtinen is defending her doctoral dissertation in ethnology at University of Turku, 25 February 2023 klo 12.00 – 16.00 (UTC +2). The title of the dissertation is The Kink Community in Finland: Affect, Belonging, and Everyday Life and it can be found here.

From the abstract:

This research explores the relationship between kink and everyday life, how affects are related to kink, and how community and belonging are important for kinky individuals. The main research material consists of themed writings, which deal with kinksters’ relationship to the community and their own kinkiness. The materials also include photographs of kink objects and homes, as well as participant observation and interviews on kink events. The materials are understood as dialogical: they are in dialogue with each other and with the researcher. The research methods are based on cultural analysis and draw on theories on affect, community, and everyday life.

QUEERDOM: Researching queer domesticities and intimacies in Norway 1842–1972

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The research project QUEERDOM will investigate how women and men with same-sex desires – about whom we use the term ‘queer’ – lived and organized their everyday lives across a complex domestic terrain in ways that unsettles customary understandings of private life and family organization in modern Norway (1842–1972). These ‘queer domesticities’ will be investigated through the intersecting lenses of time, space, class, and gender.

One of our central hypothesis is that it was not until after WWII that Norway became truly immersed in the increasingly universal modern discourse on ‘sexuality’.

QUEERDOM shifts the focus of queer historical research firmly from the global metropolises to rural regions of Europe, from the cities to the rural districts, from the courtrooms and asylums to the mundane and everyday, and from activism to domesticity and intimacy. The project will highlight the changing dynamics of societal norms and expectations, change and stability, processes of exclusion as well as of inclusion through the period 1842–1972.

Read more about the research project here.