Programme

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!!!Please note all times are FRENCH TIMES!!!

9.15am: Conference registration

9.45am: Opening words

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Session 1: Chair: Sandrine Sorlin (Université Paul-Valéry/IUF, France) & Ann Coady (Université Paul-Valéry, France)

10.00-11.00am: (in person) Plenary: Laura Paterson, Open University, UK: “Pronouns in bio: A site of empowerment, validation, struggle, performance, distraction, and corporate rainbow washing?”

11.00-11.30am: Coffee break

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Session 2: Chair: Sandrine Sorlin (Université Paul-Valéry/IUF, France)

11.30-12.00pm: (online) Theresa Heyd, Universität Heidelberg, Germany: “Mock pronouns”

12.00-12.30pm: (online) Hannah Sawall, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany: ““Mein Name ist Lena und meine Pronomen sind she/her”: Exploring Indexicalities of Pronoun Sharing Practices in English and German”

12.30-2.00pm: Lunch at university

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Session 3: Chair: Theresa Heyd (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

2.00-2.30pm: (in person) Ann Coady, Université Paul-Valéry, France: “Pronoun sharing and stancetaking: political and cultural (dis)alignment”

2.30-3.00pm: (in person) Sandrine Sorlin, Université Paul-Valéry/IUF, France: “What’s in a pronoun and how does it matter?: From the perspective of pragmatics”

3.00-3.30pm: (online) Brittney O’Neill, York University, Canada: ““What’s a she/they?”: An (auto)ethnographic exploration of epistemic justice and the double bind of split pronoun display”

3.30-4.00pm: Coffee Break

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Session 4: Chair: Ann Coady (Université Paul-Valéry, France)

4.00-4.30pm: (online) Marina Zhukova and Cooper Bedin, 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”

4.30-5.00pm: (online) Alexandra Gilbert, Arizona State University, USA: “Epistemology and sharing one’s pronouns: First, second, or third-person knowledge?”

7.30pm: dinner in a Montpellier restaurant

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Session 1: Chair: Ann Coady (Université Paul-Valéry, France)

9.00-10.00am: (online) Plenary Lal Zimman, University of California Santa Barbara, USA: "Pronouns, positionality, and power: Institutionalized transphobia, intersectionality and trans-affirming language"

10.00-10.30am: (in person) Carlos Hartmann, Universität Zürich, Switzerland: “A sociolinguistic case study on the Pronoun Declarers of Reddit”

10.30-11am: Coffee break

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Session 2: Chair: Claudine Raynaud (Université Paul-Valéry, France)

11.00-11.30am: (online) Lena Mattheis, University of Surrey, UK: “Gendernonconforming Pronouns in Literature”

11.30-12.00pm: (in person) Justyna King and Elijah King, Universität Bern, Switzerland: “Pronouns in Motion: Pronoun variability among Swiss non-binary individuals”

12.00-1.30pm: Lunch at university

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Session 3: Chair: Lynn Blin (Université Paul-Valéry, France)

1.30-2.00pm: (online) Katie Slemp, York University, Canada: ““Wait, what are your pronouns, sorry?”: Conversation analysis of pronoun requests in comedians’ crowd work on TikTok”

2.00-3.00pm: (in person) Plenary: Claudine Raynaud, Université Paul-Valéry, France: “Pronouns, past struggles, new practices: political continuity or radical change?”

3:00pm: End of conference: Wine, fruit juice, biscuits, fruit