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LAnguage & GEnder & Sexuality Research Group

Last updated by grzegorz on 2022-04-21. 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.

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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.

Joanna Pawelczyk & Łukasz Pakuła Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Polish ELT Textbooks and Classroom
Maciej Duda Gender mainstreaming* - polityka unijna, polityka równościowa, działania świadomościowe

Speakers at LaGeS meetings in 2012/13. — Click on the talk title to read the abstract.

Łukasz Pakuła Scrutinising sex(ualis)ed relationships: a cross-cultural study of discursive constructions of ‘same-sex unions’
Joanna Pawelczyk These small, petite women breaking into that little frat boy system: Membership categorization analysis and ‘doing gender’ in the context of interviews with American women soldiers
Bartłomiej Kruk “I feel so guilty that I can truly say I loathe my father”: Online narratives in the discursive identity construction of Alzheimer caretakers
Aleksandra Sokalska-Bennett Discursive constructions of women’s identities as mothers in blogs on miscarriage

Speakers at GAL meetings (2008-2012). — Clicking on the talk title will take you to the abstract.

Louise Mullany Negotiating practical relevance: Language, gender and the workplace
Dariusz Galasiński Men, depression and postcommunism
Nora Schleicher Communicating at the workplace. Does gender matter?
Edyta Zierkiewicz Medykalizacja ciała i zdrowia kobiet na przykładzie analizy dyskursu raka piersi w Polsce. Wybrane zagadnienia
Ewa Glapka The discursive production of gendered subjectivities
in the context of media reception
Joanna Minksztym “Flowers are for girls”: Gender roles and informal youth celebrations in Poland
Olivia Badoi What you always wanted to know about
gender in Romania but didn't have the chance to ask
Natalia Pater-Ejgierd Women’s matter and visual discourse

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