The workshop will address the following questions:
1. In what ways are linguistic practices associated with the construction of gender identities and
indexing of sexual orientations of the speaker, addressee, or referent?
2. In what way are language policies, language in education policies, and the regulation of
gender-neutral language addressed, received, discussed, and managed in different sociocultural
and historical contexts?
The three panels have a clear connection with the research line within the Language and Power Network that deals with the relationship between language, power, and identity creation, as well as connections to ideologies and attitudes.

PROGRAM

November 23 – Romklass, room B522

13:00-14.40: Panel 1: Debates about gendered and neutral forms in diverse geographies
Charlotta Seiler Brylla (Professor of German, Stockholm University)
13.00-13.15: The gender-fair language debate in Germany
Nicolai Witthøft (PhD student in French Linguistics, Stockholm University)
13.15-13.30: The gender-fair language debate in France and Quebec
Ben Papadopoulos (PhD student in Spanish Linguistics, University of California Berkeley)
13.30-13.45: The gender-fair language debate in the US
Laura Álvarez López (Professor of Portuguese, Stockholm University)
13.45-14.00: The gender-fair language debate in Latin-America
14.00-14.15: Questions and wrapping up (Moderator: Karin Milles)
14:15-14:45 Coffee break
14.45-18.00: Panel 2: Presentations of Pd.D. projects
Carin Leibring Svedjedal (Ph.D. student in Nordic languages, Uppsala University)
14.45-15.15: Swedish-speaking transgender people’s self-chosen first names and pronouns
Elli van Berlekom (Ph.D. student in Psychology, Stockholm University)
15.15-15.45: Exposure to the Swedish neopronoun hen facilitates gender categorization beyond the binary
Ben Papadopoulos (Ph.D. student in Spanish Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley)
15.45-16.15: Toward a new theory of gender in language
Break (16.15-16.25)
Julia Tibblin (Ph.D. student in French Linguistics, Lund University)
16.25-16.55: Gender-fair forms in French: effects on representation and on processing
Nicolai Witthøft (Ph.D. student in French Linguistics, Stockholm University)
16.55-17.25: Gender-fair French in a foreign-language context: learners’ attitudes, processing, and acquisition
Éléonore de Beaumont (Ph.D. student in language Science, University of Lorraine)
17.25-17.55: Learning a gendered language when one's first language has no gender: from constraint to emancipation
17.55-18.15 Questions and wrapping up (Moderators: Ben Papadopoulos & Nicolai Witthøft)

November 24 - Gula Villan, Minerva
9.00-10.30 Panel 3: How is Sweden moving away from binary forms?
Karin Milles (Professor of Swedish, Södertörn University)
9.00-9.20: Personal pronouns in school - a question of identity, inclusion and icebergs
Daniel Wojahn (Ass. Professor of Swedish, Södertörn University)
9.20-9.40: Attitudes towards the Swedish gender-neutral pronoun hen in public online comments and official language recommendations (2012-2022)
Emma Renström (Ass. Professor in Psychology, Kristianstad University), Marie Gustafsson Sendén 9.40-10.10: (Ass. Professor in Social Psychology, Stockholm University)
Hen – Attitudes, Meaning, and Consequences
10.10-10-30 Questions and wrapping up (Moderators: Laura Álvarez López & Charlotta Seiler Brylla)

PLEASE CONTACT Nicolai Witthøft <nicolai.witthoft@su.se> to sign up or get further information