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	Close