THEY, HIRSELF, EM, and YOU
Nonbinary Pronouns in Theory and Practice
June 11-13 2019
Day 1: Tuesday, June 11 (Robert Sutherland Hall)
| 8:15-9:00 |
Breakfast + Registration |
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| 9:00-9:30 |
Welcoming Remarks |
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9:30-11:00 O-Track 1: They (etc.) in Translation |
Oliver Sage: “(Self) Creation on the Margins: Translation in Stone Butch Blues” Lihit Velázquez: “Nonbinary Pronouns in an EFL Class for Translation Students” Ártemis López: “Syd-nificant others or Syd-nificant selves? Audiovisual translation of gender identities for mainstream audiences” |
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11:00-11:15 |
Break |
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11:15-12:30 Keynote Talk |
Lauren Ackerman (Newcastle) Pronouns as the nexus of grammatical gender and gender expression Location: Speaker’s Corner in Stauffer Library |
| 12:30-1:45 |
Lunch (+ discussion of attendee-provided topics) |
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1:45-3:15 L-Track 1 |
Dennis Storoshenko: Non-binary third person reflexives in English, and the construction of identity Ayden Loughlin: Intricacies of they: The nuances of gender, identity, and pronominal variation Evan Bradley and Maxwell Hope Schmid: Me, Myself, and Them: Grammaticality Ratings of Reflexive Gender-Neutral Pronouns |
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3:15-3:30 |
Break |
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3:30-4:30 L-Track 2 |
Archie Crowley: Nonbinary YouTubers and Legitimizing Discourses of Labels and Pronoun Choice Luna Pérez-Abela: The use of they/elle as a gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun |
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4:30-5:15 |
End-of-day discussion |
Day 2: Wednesday, June 12 (Robert Sutherland Hall)
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8:30-9:30 |
Breakfast |
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9:30-11:00 O-Track 2: Mainstreaming NB Language in Institutions and Policies |
Genny Beemyn: ‘They’ Are Coming to Get You: Efforts to Institutionalize Pronouns in Higher Education Jade Pichette & Beck McNeil: Theyployed: Putting they into practice at Canada’s largest employers Amelia Hill: Promoting pronoun inclusivity: How studies of policies in practice can inform gendered language change |
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11:00-11:15 |
Break |
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11:15-12:30 Keynote Talk |
Kirby Conrod (Washington) Doing Gender and Linguistics Location: Speaker’s Corner in Stauffer Library |
| 12:30-1:45 | Lunch (+ discussion of attendee-provided topics) |
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1:45-3:00 Keynote Talk |
Lex Konnelly (Toronto) Gender diversity and linguistic advocacy: innovation in the use of singular they Location: Speaker’s Corner in Stauffer Library |
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3:00-3:15 |
Break |
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3:15-4:45 L-Track 3 |
Ehm Hjorth Mittersen: Nounself pronouns: Expressing gender and other identities through pronouns Tran Truong: Morphological typology of neopronouns Kit Callaway: Neopronouns In Contemporary English: Language Change in Progress |
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4:45-5:30 |
End-of-day discussion: Planning non-scholarly conference outputs |
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6:15-9:00 |
Conference Dinner + Party |
Day 3: Thursday, June 13 (Mackintosh-Corry Hall D201)
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8:30-9:30 |
Breakfast |
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9:30-11:00 O-Track 3: Critical Explorations of Singular ‘They’ |
Julia Sinclair-Palm: ‘Sometimes people call me trans and I just go with it’: Exploring how youth negotiate their use of the pronoun they Hazim Ismail: A Critical Look Into Usage of ‘They/Them’, from English In Place of ‘Dia’, from Bahasa Ellis Hernandez: The History of ‘They’ and the Current State of ‘They’ffairs: An Analysis of Comments about the Singular ‘They’ |
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11:00-11:15 |
Break |
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11:15-12:30 Keynote Talk |
Brooke Larson How to study pronouns: deep structure and the nature of proper government Location: Speaker’s Corner in Stauffer Library |
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12:30-1:45 |
Lunch (+ discussion of attendee-provided topics) |
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1:45-3:00 |
Working session on non-scholarly conference outputs |
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