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Opening Event: Research Networking Project. Click here for the programme, presentation files, and recordings.
Introduction of project, content, and participants; group discussions. This event was for all research networking project participants. The event informed the following conferences / workshops with regard to the academics’ and practitioners’ questions, needs, and sharing of information and good practice.
Directly contributing were 31 presenters, residing in 14 countries, working on 15 languages - and well beyond. In addition, there were another 51 attendees from 21 countries. The total number of 82 participants shows that the interest in this subject area is considerable, and that cooperation between practitioners and academics is indeed what people are missing.
The archive of recordings and presentations can be accessed via the above link.
Conference & Workshop 1 “Language and Gender: Achieving Conceptual Clarity”. Click here for the programme, presentation files, and recordings.
Selected academics presented papers, with other interested academics and practitioners joining as “attending only”, to participate in discussions, etc. On this workshop, we specifically dealt with unclear and overlapping use of terms such as “gender-inclusive”, “gender-fair”, “gender-neutral”, etc. in various disciplines and languages. The aim of the conference / workshop was to gain conceptually clarity; ideally standardisation.
In total, 137 participants registered for the conference. They were based in in 38 countries: Algeria, Austria, Beirut, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China (incl. Hong Kong), Denmark, DR Congo, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and the USA.
This conference / workshop will lead to further research that will be published in an edited volume, with a publisher of excellent international standing. No proceedings will be published, but the archive of recordings and presentations can be accessed via the above link.
Conference & Workshop 2 “Language and Gender: Research and Desiderata”
Selected academics will present papers, and other interested academics and practitioners will be able to join as “attending only”, to participate in discussions, etc.
This conference / workshop will lead to further research that will be published in an edited volume, with a publisher of excellent international standing. No proceedings will be published, but the archive of recordings and presentations will be accessible via the above link.
Conference & Workshop 3 “Language and Gender: Practical Aspects and Implementation”
This conference / workshop will be led by participating practitioners. Other interested practitioners and academics will be able to join as “attending only”, and will be able to participate in discussions, etc.
This workshop will result in a stakeholder targeted report. As of yet, there is no plan to publish the proceedings. However, the archive of recordings and presentations will be accessible via the above link.
Closing Event: Research Networking Project
This event is for all research networking project participants. It will bring together academics and practitioners to draw conclusions, discuss possible future projects, etc. Other interested practitioners and academics will be able to join as “attending only”, and will be able to participate in discussions, etc.
If you have any questions or comments, please email the research project organiser:
Dr Falco Pfalzgraff.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.ukQueen Mary University of LondonSchool of Languages, Linguistics and FilmMile End CampusLondon E1 4NSUnited Kingdom