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).
