The presentations will be recorded and freely available on the research centre's website a few days after the conference: https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/emma
The conference is free to attend whether online or in person:
Ann Coady (in person), Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France: "Pronoun sharing and stancetaking: political and cultural (dis)alignment"
Alexandra Gilbert (online), Arizona State University, USA: “Epistemology and sharing one’s pronouns: First, second, or third-person knowledge?”
Carlos Hartmann (in person), Universität Zürich, Switzerland: “A sociolinguistic case study on the Pronoun Declarers of Reddit”
Theresa Heyd (online), Universität Heidelberg, Germany: “Mock pronouns”
Justyna King & Elijah King (in person), Universität Bern, Switzerland: “Pronouns in Motion: Pronoun variability among Swiss non-binary individuals”
Lena Mattheis (in person), University of Surrey, UK: “Gendernonconforming Pronouns in Literature”
Brittney O’Neill(online), York University, Toronto, Canada: ““What’s a she/they?”: An (auto)ethnographic exploration of epistemic justice and the double bind of split pronoun display.”
Laura Paterson(in person), "Pronouns in bio: A site of empowerment, validation, struggle, performance, distraction, and corporate rainbow washing?"
Claudine Raynaud (in person), Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France: "Pronous, past struggles, new practices: Political continuity or radical change?"
Hannah Sawall (online), Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany: ““Mein Name ist Lena und meine Pronomen sind she/her”: Exploring Indexicalities of Pronoun Sharing Practices in English and German”
Katie Slemp (online), York University, Toronto, Canada (online): ““Wait, what are your pronouns, sorry?”: Conversation analysis of pronoun requests in comedians’ crowd work on TikTok”
Sandrine Sorlin (in person), Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France: "What's in a pronoun and how does it matter? From a pragmatics perspective"
Marina Zhukova and Cooper Bedin (online), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA: ““Questions that people are afraid to ask out loud”: Fear vs. Self-Determination in Anglophone and Russophone Pronoun Discourses"
Lal Zimman (online), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA: "Pronouns, positionality, and power: Institutionalized transphobia, intersectionality and trans-affirming language"