sT
The 21 Anniversary
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE
ON
LAVENDER LANGUAGES AND
LINGUISTICS
CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
& ABSTRACTS
February 14-16, 2014
www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages
The first Lavender Languages conference was held in conjunction with the National
March on Washington, DC for Lesbian and Gay Equality in 1993. Through support from
American University's Department of Anthropology, the College of Arts & Science and other
academic units and organizations on campus, the Lavender Languages Conference has
become an annual event. This year, Lav Lgs celebrates its 21st anniversary as an
international, multidisciplinary conference in queer linguistics.
Conference activities are always open to anyone interested in projects that engage
language use in lgbtq people’s daily lives. Conference participants work hard to maintain
this conference as a “no attitude”, user-friendly event. The Lavender Languages conference is
the longest running lgbtq studies conference in the USA and, perhaps, the world.
Like Blanche Dubois, the success of this conference depends on the kindness of
strangers. May I give a particular note of thanks this year to: Jean Wogaman
(Administrative Assistant, Department of Anthropology), Thomas Meal (webmeister),Denis
Provencher (preliminary program management), Ali Erol (Facebook site manager and
Twitter blast),, Laura Jung and Rebecca Stone Gordon (refreshments), Taimur Khan
(housing coordinator), Service Campus (registration table volunteers), Siobhan McGuirk
(conference poster design) Ross (signage), Stephanie DeStefano and her staff (water support)
-- and to all the other individuals who stepped in to help in one way or another as we moved
into the final days of planning.
With best wishes for a successful conference, snow or now snow,
Wlm. L. Leap,
conference coordinator
Members of the Program Committee for Lavender Languages 21 include :
Brian Adams-Thies (Drake University)
Elijah Edelman (American University)
Lucy Jones (University of Hull)
Tomasso Milani (University of Witwatersrand)
David Peterson (University of Nebraska – Omaha)
Robert Phillips (University of Manitoba)
Denis Provencher (University of Maryland Baltimore County)