Wednesday 30 August 2017

Programme now available BAAL/CUP seminar

There are only a few weeks to go until our two-day seminar on Discourses of Marriage to be held in conjunction with BAAL and CUP at the University of Liverpool (14-15th September).

The event includes a plenary by Dr Lucy Jones from the University of Nottingham titled 'But think of the children! The ongoing salience of heteronormativity in UK discourses of marriage'.

We also have a film screening of Growing Up Married: A Documentary About Forced Marriage In Turkey followed by a Q&A session hosted by the film's director Dr Eylem Atakav from the University of East Anglia.

There are also ten papers from scholars around the globe looking at discourses of marriage in a range of national and international contexts. A full copy of the conference programme is included below.

Don't forget to register for the conference here: Discourses of Marriage Seminar Booking.

Day 1
10:30
Opening & BAAL welcome
10:45
Session 1: François Labatut, Sorbonne-Nouvelle University
Is marriage really the gold standard? Contrasting metaphorical representations of ‘marriage’ during Obergefell v. Hodges in the US.
11:15
Session 2: Ursula Kania, University of Liverpool
Marriage for all (‘Ehe fuer alle’)?! A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the equal marriage debate in Germany.
11:45
Session 3: Eric Ku, National Taiwan Normal University
“First in Asia”: A Linguistic Landscape Study of Marriage Equality Protest Signage in Taiwan.
12:15
Lunch
13:00
Session 4: Mark McGlashan, Birmingham City University
"Very well, Mother. I'll marry. I must say, though, I've never cared much for princesses": Negotiating discourses of sexuality and same-sex marriage in children’s literature.
13:30
Session 5: Jai Mackenzie, University of Birmingham
“Darling” husbands and partners in Mumsnet Talk.
14:00
Session 6 [Skype]: Mieke Vandenbroucke, University of California, Berkley
Legal-discursive constructions of genuine cross-border love in Belgian marriage fraud investigations.
14:30
Coffee
15:00
Film screening (followed by Q&A):
Dr Eylem Atakav, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia
Growing Up Married: A Documentary About Forced Marriage In Turkey
16:15
Approx. finish

Day 2
10:00
Plenary:
Dr Lucy Jones, Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham
But think of the children! The ongoing salience of heteronormativity in UK discourses of marriage.
11:00
Coffee
11:30
Session 7: Xing Wang, Loughborough University
How Neoliberal Self Encounters Marriage: Transformation and Discourses of Chinese Dating Shows.
12:00
Session 8: Pia Pitchler, Goldsmiths, University of London
I want it to be lively - like a white person’s wedding where everyone is laughing.
12:30
Lunch
13:15
Session 9: Sergio Silvero, Edge Hill University
A feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis of older never married women’s definitions of marital status and identity: The “Spinsters”, the “Singletons”, and the “Superheroes”.
13:45
Session 10: Clement Akran, Canterbury Christ Church University
‘Everything Has Changed Except Our Way of Thinking’: An analysis on reporting of non-monogamous relationships in British Newspapers.
14:15
Coffee
14:30
Round Table
15:30
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Tuesday 8 August 2017

Registration now open!

Registration is now open for the BAAL/CUP seminar on Discourses of Marriage!

More details HERE.


Friday 5 May 2017

There are just a few days left to submit your abstracts to discoursesofmarriage@gmail.com and don't forget we have two student fee waivers
 
BAAL/CUP Seminar Series FINAL Call for Papers - Deadline 30th June
 
Discourses of Marriage 
University of Liverpool 14-15th September 2017 
 
Due to recent legislation changes in countries around the world, more people than ever before can now get married. Hosted in collaboration with the Discourses of Marriage Research Group (http://discoursesofmarriage.blogspot.co.uk/), this two-day seminar aims to encourage scholarly interest in how marriage is conceptualised, normalised, defined, rejected, adapted, and debated through language.
 
We invite submissions for 20-minute papers to discuss any aspects of discourses of marriage in relation to language, but particularly encourage submissions in the following areas: 
·         Historical and/or global perspectives on discourses of marriage 
·         Marriage and religious institutions 
·         The language of marriage and equal marriage debates across cultures 
·         Marriage and identity 
·         Discourses of (non-heteronormative) family structure and divorce  
 
Abstracts should be up to 300 words long and should contain up to five keywords. Abstracts are to be submitted as Word documents to discoursesofmarriage@gmail.com by the 30th June 2017. Submissions will be anonymised before review. Authors will be notified of the organisers’ decisions by mid-July 2017. We encourage applications from scholars at all career stages and there will be two fee-waived places for student presenters.  
 
The two-day seminar will be an opportunity to establish the state-of-the-art for linguistic research on marriage, marriage equality, divorce, etc. by bringing together researchers interested in this field. It is designed to spark discussion about discourses of marriage by acting as a networking event and we already have publishers interested in an edited collection of papers. For more information, please contact Laura Paterson (laura.paterson@open.ac.uk) or Georgina Turner (g.turner@liverpool.ac.uk).