For more information, visit: https://www.uky.edu/commencement/springceremonies 

This webinar explores LGBTQ+ issues in Linguistics from the perspectives of a master’s student, a doctoral candidate, and a postdoctoral fellow. Building from the LSA Special Interest Group on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics’ 2019 panel “New Directions in LGBTQ+ Linguistics,” this webinar also addresses contemporary topics of interest in the study of language, gender, and sexuality. This webinar is of interest to LGBTQ+ linguists and allies at all career stages, those seeking to promote LGBTQ+ issues in the wider discipline, and those seeking to learn how to organize around these topics.

The webinar will take place on Friday, April 12 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM U.S. Eastern Standard Time.  Participation will be limited to 100, with LSA members given priority.

For more information and to sign up for the webinar, click here. 

ASL interpretation will be provided for LSA webinars if at least one week’s advance notice is provided.  This notice is required in order to secure the services of qualified interpreters.   If less advance notice is provided, the LSA will attempt to secure interpreters but cannot guarantee availability. Please provide advance notice by contacting David Robinson, the LSA’s Director of Membership and Meetings.

Participants: 

Tyler Kibbey, University of Kentucky

Jeremy Calder, University of Colorado Boulder 

Kirby Conrod, University of Washington 

Closed group meeting.

Closed group meeting. 

Closed group meeting.

This panel will consist of multiple activists from various faith communities who will discuss contemporary issues related to religion and sexuality as it is approached through theological and public discourse.

In October 2015, a cathedral dedicated to the Russian New Martyrs and Confessors (an order of saints dedicated to victims of the Soviet official policy on atheism) was consecrated in Lozhok, a small town approximately 50 kilometers to the east of Novosibirsk. The consecration was the culmination of 9 years of construction on the cathedral, which is located on the site of a holy spring on a former GULAG. The spring, credited with healing miracles, is considered to be sacred precisely because of its connection to camp victims. The consecration was presided over by two metropolitans (one local, one from Belarus), three bishops from the Novosibirsk and Iskitim dioceses, and Nikita Buick, director of Russian American Community Services of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia as well as prominent local politicians from the United Russia and Communist parties. This lecture will examine the intersection of the political and religious events, and the language used by the participants, to explore the symbolic roles of the officiants and the socio-cultural roles that this spring (and the cathedral on this site) play in the diocese and among the laity in this region. 

Reweaving the warp and the weft: Two Spirit activism at the intersections of language sexuality and religion

Join us for a lecture on the contemporary two-spirit movement in the United States approached through the lens of indigenous language documentaon and in indigenous religious studies. Specifically, Dr. Davis examines the impact of the boarding school era on indigenous religion, language, and sexuality.