Full Title: Sex in Romance: Perspectives to Gender and Sexuality in Romance Languages (SIR2025)

Date: 25-Aug-2025 - 27-Aug-2025
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Web Site: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/sir2025

Call Deadline: 23-Apr-2025

Final Call for Papers:

#SiR2025 is a three-day conference organized by the research project Gender, society, and language use: Evidence from Mexico and Spain and other researchers interested in language and gender at the University of Helsinki. The conference brings together scholars working on different perspectives to gender and sexuality in Romance languages from different perspectives, including but not limited to sociolinguistics, morphosyntax, pragmatics, social psychology, and phonetics.

While the study of language, gender and sexuality has become a central research topic in linguistics in past decades, the vast majority of the research has focused on the Anglosphere. In Romance linguistics, the interplay of language, gender and sexuality has received less attention. At the same time, there is a growing interest in phenomena like gender-neutral or inclusive language and the connection between grammatical and societal gender. The purpose of the conference is to provide an international discussion forum for scholars interested in different aspects of gender and sexuality in Romance languages. We include all theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to the following:
- sociolinguistics of language, gender and sexuality
- interfaces between morphological and social gender
- pragmatics of gender and/or sexuality
- social psychology of language and gender
- corpus linguistic approaches to studying language and gender/sexuality
- ethnographic approaches to studying language and gender/sexuality
- construction of gender and sexual identities in discourse
- queer and trans linguistics

The conference will take place at the University of Helsinki on 25–27 August 2025.
New deadline for submissions of abstracts: 23th April 2025.

The lingua franca of the conference is English, but we welcome submissions and presentations in Romance languages as well. The planned length of presentations is 20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and comments.

If you have any questions or need more information concerning the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]

More info: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/sir2025