Keynote 1: Dr. Kevin Guyan – Prefer Not To Say
Presenter(s): Kevin Guyan
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Queer Speech on the Malagasy Screen: Knou and the Mediation of Transgressive Femininity in Vola
Presenter(s): Seth Palmer
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
The Linguistic Landscape of Transnational Queer Activism in Collage Art
Presenter(s): Ashley Xing
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
“There’s something about the way you look at me”: Sexualised synthetic personas encode gendered power asymmetries through voice
Presenter(s): Alice Ross
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Too Queer to Fit in: Gatekeeping and Intragroup Marginalization on LGBTQ+ Subreddits
Presenter(s): Routa Hallapaju
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Lubunca and the Infrastructures of Queer Subcultural Reproduction and Pedagogy in Turkey
Presenter(s): Burak Alp Çakar
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Reading the Room: Environmental Coding and Queer Belonging
Presenter(s): Rob Vinall
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Gen Z bisexuals less invisible than misperceived: A gay voice study of a spectrum of sexual attractions
Presenter(s): Jinfan Frank Hu
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Reflections on the Politics of Secrecy and Visibility in Ulti
Presenter(s): Enakshi Nandi
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Sexuality and gender presentation predict vowel production
Presenter(s): Liza Sulkin
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
From Biology to Kinship: Doing Family Beyond Heteronormative Anthropocentrism
Presenter(s): Hannah Sawall
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Between Secrecy and Exposure: Hijra Farsi and the Shifting Boundaries of Khawaja Sira (Dis)Belonging in Pakistan
Presenter(s): Tayyaba Rafique
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Sexual identity, lexical association, and the ideological marking of place in San Francisco
Presenter(s): Michael Senko
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Queering the Voice: Phonetics of Sexual Orientation
Presenter(s): Yu-Leng Lin
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Project Launch Session
Presenter(s): Jay King, Cliodhna Hughes, Melissa Ebert, Bayleigh Baldwin, Joy Dertinger, Diogo Maicon Krevoniz Balduino
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Playful pronouns then and now: historical and current practices of explorative digital gender
Presenter(s): Sol Tovar
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
“Now that I can die here, I wonder when I will be able to live here”: Homonationalism as the gatekeeper of LGBTQ+ belonging in Israel
Presenter(s): Roey Gafter
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
“I’m Every Woman”: Mapping the conditions of a contested category
Presenter(s): Lexi Webster
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
“He’s Here, He’s Not Queer”: The Indexical Potential of Pronoun Use on American Drag Reality Television
Presenter(s): Finn Verdonk
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
The time has come for you to lipsync for your life – Affective demands in rejections of application for asylum for queer refugees in Denmark
Presenter(s): Nicolai Pharao
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
“They can’t police where I piss”: Trans people’s resistance to the UK Supreme Court judgment on the definition of ‘woman’
Presenter(s): Lucy Jones
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Listening for Silence: Queer (Dis)Belonging Beyond Linguistic Visibility in the Anglophone Caribbean
Presenter(s): Isaias Calderon
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
LGBTQIA* – Usage, expansion and meaning of LGBT-based initialisms in German
Presenter(s): Lars Sörries-Vorberger
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Keynote 2: Prof. Erez Levon – Freedom to hate: Anti-gender discourse and the forging of fascist consensus
Presenter(s): Erez Levon
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Keynote 3: Dr. Nikki Lane – The Love Language of Black Lesbians: Longing, Loss, and the Materiality of Black Lesbian Magazines in California’s Bay Area
Presenter(s): Nikki Lane
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
When voice signals belonging: on auditory gaydar in Catalan
Presenter(s): Mercè Prat-Rubio
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
How to Do Things with Woofs: Examining the Use of Non-Human Vocalizations as a Genre of Paralanguage in the Queer Pup Play Kink Community
Presenter(s): Terence McKeown
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Queer ethnopoetics in minoritised languages: an ethnographic case study on Galician rural LGBTIQ festivals
Presenter(s): Daniel Amarelo
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Sexuality as Interactional Achievement: Evidence from a Toronto Queer Oral History
Presenter(s): Nick Haggarty
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Building biliteracy and identity through Grindr in Taipei: Getting laid and beyond…
Presenter(s): Guillermo Balseiro-Barrios
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
“I am different, I am outside of this grammatical gender”: linguistic practices of non-binary L1 and L2 French, Italian, and Spanish speakers for self-expression
Presenter(s): Candice Guerbeau
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Creating a space for queer conversations in Breton: The Queeromp podcast
Presenter(s): Michael Hornsby
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Project Launch and Lightning Talks
Presenter(s): Alexander Martin, Lillianna Lamagna, Jung In Lee, Henriette Johansen
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Queering the Sexual Script: Intimacy, Heteropatriarchy, Sex and Power
Presenter(s): Manjot Multani
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Between linguistic identity and the prohibition of gender expression: the case of Québec French
Presenter(s): Alexandra Dupuy
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
A community-based approach to queer terminology provision in Irish
Presenter(s): Jamie Murphy
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Stance and the enactment of intimacy in Sri Lanka
Presenter(s): Hasitha Pathirana
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Multilingual queer speech communities and languaging practices among Latine/Latinx college-aged speakers in the U.S.
Presenter(s): R Mata
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Lightning Paper Session
Presenter(s): Anna Wyrwa, Lilith Alison, Vince Mallia, Noé Fouquet, Sam Nartus, Pim Rommelaere
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Shifting Disability Narratives: Neuroqueering Reddit
Presenter(s): Margaux Kraemer
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Performative Males: The Making of a “Fake” Male Persona
Presenter(s): Yu-Xuan Tsai
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
“Accept that you are different! Don’t invite people to war!” Affective-discursive practices in the representation of marriage equality in Estonian media
Presenter(s): Elisabeth Kaukonen
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
‘Does anyone else find the use of “queer” problematic?’ Online LGBT+ identity and community construction across three languages
Presenter(s): Max Reuvers
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Queer Stylisation Beyond Visibility: Modelling Sajiao among Gay Men in Urban China
Presenter(s): Shutong Han
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Temporal Governance and the Construction of Trans (Dis)Belonging in South Korean Media
Presenter(s): Abigail Cowan
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
From Plague to PrEP: Gay Gen X and the Meaning of Midlife
Presenter(s): David Divita
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Multimodal constructions of transgender (dis)belonging in an American political talk show
Presenter(s): Martino Mangano
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Keynote 4: Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli – ‘But we who?’ The interactional making of queer (dis)belonging: From public discourse to psychotherapy
Presenter(s): Stamatina Katsiveli
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Keynote 5: Dr. Eddie L. Ungless – Synthesising queerness: how AI represents queer identities
Presenter(s): Eddie L. Ungless
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Yes, but: non-binary students’ linguistic self‑reference across languages
Presenter(s): Bel Olid
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
“God made trans people”: Resisting trans disbelonging through religio-political rhetoric
Presenter(s): Philip Duncan
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Out of Place, Yet Speaking: Affect, Normativity and Haitian Migrant Visibility across Media in Mexico
Presenter(s): Diana Ortiz Rojo
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
The Lexicalisation of Gay: Language, Normativity, and Queer Belonging in Chinese Sina Weibo ‘Tree-Hole’ Discourse
Presenter(s): Ningxin Yin
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
A guide to nonbinary Galician language: collaborative experiences in a sociolinguistically minoritized, stateless nation
Presenter(s): Daniel Amarelo
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Rainbow Beasts: Legitimating Rightwing Christian Nationalist Queerphobic Governance in Project 2025
Presenter(s): David Peterson
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Languaging (Dis)Belonging: Queer Latinx Resistance, Fear, and Solidarity under Anti-LGBTQ+ and Anti-Immigrant Policies
Presenter(s): Fernando Lesniak
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
We can change the language: Linguistic (r)evolution among nonbinary high school learners of French & Spanish
Presenter(s): Julia Spiegelman
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
“We don’t have beaches in our townships”: Muhsin Hendricks, gay Islam and queer translanguaging
Presenter(s): William Leap
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Languages of (Dis)Belonging: Chinese Gay Men Navigating Queer Identity Across Chinese, English, and Japanese
Presenter(s): Chuan Tian
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Queer FC? A cross-linguistic comparison of identity labels and inclusion-oriented lexis in amateur women and queer football clubs
Presenter(s): Cheryl Yeo
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Overcoming resistance to gender-inclusive language teaching: research-informed pathways for teachers in world language classrooms
Presenter(s): Diana Carter
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Conflicted Identities: Religious Gay Speakers’ Use of Creaky Voice in Taiwan
Presenter(s): Yu-Che Jackson Chou
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Lost in Translation, Found in Language: Queer (Dis)Belonging among Japanese-English Multilingual Nonbinary Individuals
Presenter(s): Yuka Takao
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
What’s in a (trans) name? Indirect sociolinguistic profiling of personal names chosen by trans individuals in Spain
Presenter(s): Emma Machado de Souza
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
Transgressive Mouthings: Indexing Queerly in ASL
Presenter(s): Erin Moriarty
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
Discourses of diversity in Hong Kong Universities: belonging & identity in cosmopolitan, Confucian & Christian context
Presenter(s): Philip Freestone
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
The Unspeakable Tongue and a Borrowed Code: How the Korean Lez Clips English and Cuts through Silence
Presenter(s): Julia Kim
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
The inclusional fallacy: Discourses of queer disbelonging in Norwegian textbooks
Presenter(s): Yvonne Jasmine Demirel
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
Pragmatic camouflage: The Estonian slur pede across hostile, ironic, and ‘neutral’ uses
Presenter(s): Aet Kuusik
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Contextualizing (dis)belonging: Nonbinary attitudes towards style shifting beyond the queer safety vs. risk paradigm
Presenter(s): Ariana Steele
Location: G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre
“Between Analysis and Evocation”: A Discourse Analysis of First-Person Stances in Trans Scholarship
Presenter(s): Mary Ann Saunders
Location: Seminar Room 1, CM
“Any homophobe can take a new untarnished word and make it a slur by context and tone alone”: Perceptions of LGBTQ+ Slurs
Presenter(s): Sloane Cheesebrough
Location: Seminar Room 2, CM
Owning it, owning us: experiences of belonging and solidarity as a reaction to HIV/AIDS in the Swedish queer press, 1982–1986
Presenter(s): Martina Terrazzano
Location: Seminar Room 4, CM
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