{"id":657,"date":"2026-07-27T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?post_type=confab_session&#038;p=657"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:34:41","slug":"keynote-2-prof-erez-levon","status":"publish","type":"confab_session","link":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?confab_session=keynote-2-prof-erez-levon","title":{"rendered":"Keynote 2: Prof. Erez Levon &#8211; Freedom to hate: Anti-gender discourse and the forging of fascist consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"taxonomy-confab_location wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Location: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?location=g07-meadows-lt\" rel=\"tag\">G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the presenter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/erez2023_web-small-3.png-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/erez2023_web-small-3.png-1.webp 978w, https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/erez2023_web-small-3.png-1-287x300.webp 287w, https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/erez2023_web-small-3.png-1-768x803.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><a href=\"http:\/\/gensexdatalab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/erezlevon.com\/\">Erez Levon<\/a> (he\/him) is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Director of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csls.unibe.ch\/index_eng.html\"> Center for the Study of Language and Society<\/a> at the University of Bern. His work uses quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methods to examine how people produce and perceive socially meaningful patterns of variation in language. He is particularly interested in how variation signals group membership and in the relationship between language and broader structures of social inequality. He examines these issues primarily as they relate to gender, sexuality, social class and national belonging, and he has conducted field research on these topics in Israel\/Palestine, South Africa, the US, &amp; the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Erez Levon &#8211; Freedom to hate: Anti-gender discourse and the forging of fascist consensus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"confab_track":[27,28,29,26],"session_locations":[25],"class_list":["post-657","confab_session","type-confab_session","status-publish","hentry","confab_track-cm-1","confab_track-cm-2","confab_track-cm-4","confab_track-0-meadows","confab_location-g07-meadows-lt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/confab_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/657\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"confab_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fconfab_track&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"confab_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsession_locations&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}