Last updated by mmurawska on 2017-01-17. Originally submitted by tomash on 2013-03-11.
LaGeS /'lægəs/ is a forum set up to discuss current issues in the field of Language, Gender and Sexuality. We view both gender and sexuality as socially constructed phenomena, which are prone to constant change and alteration. This makes language one of the main tools which we use to construct ourselves as gendered and sexualized beings. The words that best characterize our meetings are ‘interdisciplinarity’ and ‘open-mindedness’.
We aim to provide a platform for open discussions bringing together both established and beginning academics in this fascinating post-structuralist subfield of linguistics. The LaGeS meetings are devoted to presenting research results of WA students, PhD students and faculty staff as well as discussing most up-to-date literature falling in the scope of language & gender & sexuality. Although group members are mostly faculty staff and graduate students, we also invite non-linguistic scholars (or people outside the academia) who are similarly working on issues that bear relevance to gender and sexuality as salient social categories. We hope that our meetings will result in collaboratively authored papers which will be submitted to leading journals.
Currently we're involved in a British Council-funded project entitled British Council funded project: Investigating Gender and Sexuality in the ESL classroom: Raising publishers', teachers' and students' awareness.
Please contact Łukasz Woźniakowski to sign up to our mailing list.
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LaGeS meetings in 2015/2016
‘A discussion of an article by Alice A. Freed ‘The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years’.
Speakers at LaGeS meetings in 2014/15.
Click on the talk title to read the abstract
Bartłomiej Kruk |
Ethical issues in researching online data |
Speakers at LaGeS meetings in 2013/14. Click on the talk title to read the abstract.
Speakers at LaGeS meetings in 2012/13. Click on the talk title to read the abstract.
Speakers at GAL meetings (2008-2012). Clicking on the talk title will take you to the abstract.
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