Salle Panathénées, site Saint-Charles 2, rue du Pr Henri Serre, Montpellier
Conference organisers
Ann Coady & Sandrine Sorlin
Keynote speakers:
Laura Paterson, The Open University, UK
Claudine Raynaud, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France
Lal Zimman, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Other confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order):
Danniel Carvalho, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil (in person): “Attitudes and perceptions about inclusive language and non-binary pronouns: a diagnostic study with Brazilian speakers”
Alexandra Gilbert, Arizona State University, USA (in person): “Epistemology and sharing one’s pronouns: First, second, or third-person knowledge?”
Carlos Hartmann, Universität Zürich, Switzerland (in person): “A sociolinguistic case study on the Pronoun Declarers of Reddit”
Laura Hekanaho, University of Helsinki, Finland (online): “Cis resistance to new pronouns and pronoun practices”
Theresa Heyd, Universität Heidelberg, Germany (in person): “Mock pronouns”
Justyna King & Elijah King, Universität Bern, Switzerland (in person): “Pronouns in Motion: Pronoun practices and flexibility among Swiss non-binary individuals”
Lena Mattheis, University of Surrey, UK (online): “Gendernonconforming Pronouns in Literature”
Brittney O’Neill, York University, Toronto, Canada (online): ““What’s a she/they?”: An (auto)ethnographic exploration of epistemic justice and the double bind of split pronoun display.”
Hannah Sawall, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany (in person): ““Mein Name ist Lena und meine Pronomen sind she/her”: Exploring Indexicalities of Pronoun Sharing Practices in English and German”
Katie Slemp, York University, Toronto, Canada (online): ““Wait, what are your pronouns, sorry?”: Conversation analysis of pronoun requests in comedians’ crowd work on TikTok”
Marina Zhukova and Cooper Bedin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (in person): ““Questions that people are afraid to ask out loud”: Fear vs. Self-Determination in Anglophone and Russophone Pronoun Discourses"
Attendance is free, whether in person or online. If you want to follow the conference online, please send an email to whypronounsmatter2024@gmail.com. You will receive the Zoom link the day before the conference (Wed 16th Oct).
