Date: Thu, 16 May 96 16:10:51 EDT From: william leap Subject: lav lg IV update !!!!! The Fourth American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics Washington DC September 27-29, 1996 Preliminary Conference Inventory Plenary speakers: Ellen Lewin (independent scholar, San Francisco) Language of lesbian/gay commitment ceremonies Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University, Washington DC) [studying gay language] Riki Anne Wilchins (Transsexual Menace, New York City) The erotic construction of your genitals and other linguistic illusions Charles Nero (Bates College, Maine) Language in African American gay men's fiction **************************** Scheduled Sessions: ***Recovering lavender presence Christopher Lane Is there a homosexual in this text? Identity, opacity and the elaboration of desire Merrill Cole Empire of the Closet: T. S. Eliot's textual erotics Brett Abrams Bending medical textbook conventions: The words of homosexuals within Havelock Ellis' Sexual Inversion (1897) David Peterson [Walt Whitman's use of queer language to construct gay identity] ***Interpreting gay erotic messages Richard Martin The photographs of Herb Ritts: Mainstream muscle, homoerotic sensibility Fred Fejes Sexual utopias and gay male pornography John Haywood Representations of violence in Straight to Hell Arnold Zwickey [Reading from his gay erotic fiction] ***Lavender life stories Dawn Atkins Communicating queer: Bisexuals sharing coming out stories Leota E. Dye and Bryan K. Horikami The commanding narrative: An analysis of coming-out stories using the narrative paradigm Karen Nakamura Suturing the transsexual body ***Straight readings of lavender texts Melinda Chen Group character as an explanation for differing conceptualizations of homosexuality Ron Butters How private is your toilet: Anatomy of a harmful speech debate Liz Sheehan Why Tom Dooley will never be a Catholic Saint ***Lavender language meets queer theory [in preparation] Birch Moonwomon [tba] Suzanna Walters From here to queer: Radical feminism, postmodernism and the lesbian menace (or why can't a women be more like a fag?) Antje Hornscheidt Feminist linguistics meets queer theory: Some Issues and comments ***Lavender bodies Amy Cowen Cracking Written on the Body's code: Lesbian metaphor/lesbian text Liora Moriel Tatoos: A significant language Tina Palivos [lesbian s&m] ***Media constructions of gay identity Jeff Deby And who are you? How print advertising suggests what it means to be gay Richard Slusarczyk Accidental marking: Viatical advertising and gay/lesbian teens Denis Provencher Gay nation: The textual construction of a sexual identity in the French press Carolyn Parkhurst The blindfolded tango: Safety and desire in male cross-dressing comedies ***Lavender text, Chicano text Jonathan Ortiz City of Night: Reading the ethnic in a queer text Carlos Schroder John Rechy: The racial outlaw: Race and ethnicity in queer discourses" discussant: [tba] ***Lavender language, identification, and erasure Robyn Queen, Rusty Barrett and Keith Walters Butches and bi's, fats and femmes: Cognitive categories and the linguistic construction of shared queerness Tamarah Cohen Does gay visibility entail lesbian invisibility? Miodarg Kojadinovic A analysis of the grammatical gender dysphoria in Serbo-Croat in the context of former Yugoslavia's fall into chaos Liz Morrish The case of the indefinite pronoun: Concealing sexual identity in class ***Panhistoric Multilingual Sapphic Poetics: Writing and reading Sapphic sexual texts Carole D. Breakstone "How can harmless lovers please themselves?": Platonic friendships and lesbian relationships in the works of Katherine Fowler Philips and Margaret Lucas Cavendish Carol J. Galbraith Repeating Gertrude Stein: Apprehension through a discourse of modernism Geoffrey Saunders Schramm Digging the (sub)text: Using Lesbian reading practices to unearth (sub)textual ground in H.D.'s "Paint it Today" and three additional papers on similar themes. ***Lavender presence in narrative and conversation Lisa Bland Hidden hardware: Functions of narratives in lesbian discourse Fernando Ona (2)getha 4eva: AIDS activists narrating in time dysphoria Michal Brody Islands of lesbos: Creating lesbian context in public contact Christine Nardacci Crooked talk: Generational differences in the use of gay linguistic code among gay men in Chicago ***Lavender language, gendered violence [in preparation] Tricia Silver et al. ***Lavender abjection Marianne Noble [Emily Dickenson's poetry] Robert Sember The self surfaces: Vision and Infection ***Language and lavender space Ira Tattelman How to make a queer monument Bill Leap Language(s) of the gay city, compared: Washington DC and Capetown ZA Bonnie Morris A lexicon of "festivalese": The language of women's music festivals *************************** Special Events: Sunday breakfast/roundtable [sponsored by American University's Lambda Graduate Students Association} time: Sunday morning, September 29th, 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. topic: (e)Race(ure) in Lavender Discourse Displays/Booksignings: Roz Warren and her lesbian humor books A selection of current fiction and nonfiction from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered authors Performances: Bonnie Morris Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor Ernest Schwartz "For whom the southern belle tolls" by Christopher Durang the Polyester Liberation Organization's Fall Fashion Show Registration: Preregistration is not required. There is a $10.00 conference registration fee, payable at the door, and adjusted on a sliding scale for students, unemployed and low-income'd persons. Persons with special needs: Please contact the program committee (address below) in advance of the conference dates, to arrange for appropriate services. Conference Housing: Please contact the Program Committee for the names of hotels offering reduced rates for conference participants. For more information, please contact: Lav Lgs IV Planning Committee c/o department of Anthropology American University Washington DC 20016 (voice mail) 202-885-1831 (fax) 202-885-1837 (e-mail) wlm@american.edu