Gênero, linguagem e teoria queer

Programas de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários

Centro de Comunicação e Expressão

UFSC

Convite

Round Table/Mesa Redonda:

GenderStudies: Theories and Applications

Data: 21/03/2016

Sala Machado de Assis, CCE, 14 horas.

Esta mesa redonda tem por objetivo a discussão de temas relacionados às questões de Linguagem/Discurso e Gênero Social, tão importantes no momento social e político que vivemos no momento. Os/as participantes são reconhecidos/as (internacional e nacionalmente) como analistas de discurso e sua presença na PGI e UFSC certamente contribuirá para que nossos/nossas pesquisadores/as tenham um olhar ainda mais aprofundado na intersecção Discurso e Gênero.

Após as exposições, haverá um debate entre os/as apresentadores/as e a audiência. Contamos com a participação de todos/as.

Dr. Tommaso Milani

Universidade de Witwatersrand, South Africa

“Gender and Language: Where are we now?”

Dra. Silvana Mota-Ribeiro

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Dr. Rodrigo Borba

A renúncia de si: interação, gênero e (des)identificação no ProcessoTransexualizador

Prof. Dra. Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

Professora Titular da PGI e da PGET

Coordenadora do Evento

P.S – Esta mesa redonda contará como ‘Open Seminar’ para os/as alunos/as da PGI.

Convite

Aula Magna

Programas de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários

Centro de Comunicação e Expressão,UFSC

Local – Auditório Henrique Fontes

Data: 22 de marco, 2016 as 10 horas

Palestrante: Dr. Tommaso M. Milani

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Título: Queer performativity

Over the last two decades, performativity has become one of the most significant notions – if not the most influential one – in the study of language and socio-cultural processes. Most commonly associated with the work of the American philosopher Judith Butler on gender, sexuality and the sexed body (1990, 1993, 2004, 2011), performativity’s uptake has far exceeded the original focus of the concept. Though appreciating the wide-raging impact of the concept, in this talk, I propose that it is perhaps time to “bring performativity back” (Livia and Hall 1997) to its origins; this time though it’s not its linguistic heritage that we should rediscover but its queer pedigree (Sedgwick 1993), which lies at the crossroads of gender, sexuality and the body. Such a suggestion might sound paradoxical, because the very existence of an origin(al) is undermined by a performativity approach. However, renewed attention to the body brings with it the promise of broadening the remit of inquiry beyond a narrow focus on language so as to encompass “aspects of experience and reality that do no present themselves in propositional or even in verbal form” (Sedgwick 2003: 6), such as affect and materiality (see also Bucholtz and Hall, in press, Peck and Stroud 2015). A re-centering of performativity around its queer roots also has the potential to re-frame ongoing discussions about (anti)normativity in gender and sexuality research.

Bio-Data

Dr. Tommaso M. Milani is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is Co-Editor of the journals African Studies (Taylor and Francis) and Gender and Language (Equinox) with Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard; he is also Editor of the book series Advances in Sociolinguistics (Bloomsbury). His work has appeared in many international journals, including Discourse & Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, and Language in Society. He has recently edited the book Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations(Routledge, 2015).