Workshop on gender and linguistic fieldwork

THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED

Various speakers

Date: 8 June 2015Time: 9:00 AM

Finishes: 8 June 2015Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: 4426

Type of Event: Workshop

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a platform for fieldworkers to exchange their experiences and reflections on the role gender plays in both their work and personal life while in the field.

A lot has been said about the relationship between gender and fieldwork in anthropology, but no such exchange has yet been initiated in documentary linguistics. By means of this workshop we hope to start bridging that gap, and hopefully make fieldworkers more aware of ways of conceptualising, and relating to both their gendered experience, and gender dynamics in their host communities.

This event is an all-day workshop, with a plenary talk followed by presentations by selected speakers. Each of the presenters will have 20 minutes for the talk, plus 10 minutes for questions.

Plenary talk:

Natalia Buitrón Arias, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, LSE & Grégory Deshoullière, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) of Paris: Imperfect ethnographers and heterogeneous voices: gendering fieldwork in Ecuadorian Amazonia.

Keynote speaker:

Professor Anne Pauwels, SOAS, University of London: Does gender really matter in linguistic fieldwork?

Programme

Time	Speaker	Title
9:15-9:45	Welcome
9:45-10:45	Natalia Buitrón Arias (LSE) & Grégory Deshoullière (EHESS, Paris)	PLENARY Imperfect ethnographers and heterogeneous voices: gendering fieldwork in Ecuadorian Amazonia.
10:45-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-11:45	Pamela Innes, University of Wyoming	Gender and its role in shaping my understanding of the Mvskoke linguistic world
11:45-12:15	Virginia Grover, Birkbeck	Insider-Outsider Identities and Gender in Fieldwork in India
12:15-12:45	Lindsay Morcom, Queen’s University	Indian Status, Idle no More, and Indigenous Language Revitalization: The Renaissance of Indigenous Female Leadership in Ontario
12:45-13:45	Lunch break
13:45-14:15	Anne Pauwels, SOAS	KEYNOTE Does gender really matter in linguistic fieldwork?
14:15-14:45	Anthony Capstick, Lancaster University	Gender dynamics in research on the multilingual literacy practices of migrants in Pakistan and the UK: exploring language in migration and researcher reflexivity.
14:45-15:15	Coffee break
15:15-15:45	Sarah Foxen, University of Exeter	High heels or football boots?: Reflections on gender, decision making and data collection in sociolinguistic fieldwork
15:45-16:15	Łukasz Pakuła, University of Poznań	‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ in Polish ELT: gaining insights from within the classroom
16:15 – 17:00	Round table discussion and close

Registration

There is no need to register in advance: just turn up on the day.

SOAS University of London

Department of Linguistics, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics