9:00 – 10:00 AM (ALL TIMES ARE U.S. Pacific)
Opening Keynote Speech
Teaching the Unknown Genders: Grassroots Research for Language and Linguistics Instructors
Dr. Kirby Conrod, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College
10:05 – 11:00 AM Panel 1: Power, Pedagogy and the Politics of Language Learning
Moderator Ben Papadopoulos (University of California, Berkeley)
- Queering the “Third Space” to Promote a “Culture of Peace” in EFL Classrooms in France
Véronique Perry (Université de Toulouse III, France) - The Benefits and Challenges of Queering TESOL: A Qualitative Research Synthesis
Mattia Zingaretti (York St John University, UK) - Teacher Authority and the Power of Context: What Impact on Non-Binary Students?
Julia Donnelly Spiegelman (University of Massachusetts Boston)
11:05 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel 2: Gender, Identity and Innovation in Language Education
Moderator Jackie Cohen-Steinberg (University of Southern California)
- Portuguese as a Second Language for Indigenous Warao Women: Gender-Inclusive Pedagogical Practices and Materials
Carolina Coelho Aragon, Juliana Luna Freire, Emanuel Fernandes Gomes Gonzaga, Guilherme da Silva Lima, Juliana Melo Lopes, Kalyana Pereira de Alencar, Lidyane Santos de Lima (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil) - Changing the Game: Language, Gender, and Sports Culture
Nooshan Ashtari (University of Southern California) - Artificial Intelligence and Gender-Fair Language in School Books: Pedagogical Insights from Potentialities of Using an Autocorrect in Education
Martina Rosola, Greta Persico and Simona Frenda (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy, and University Heriot-Watt, UK)
12:00 – 12:20 PM
Break
12:20 – 1:20 PM
Workshop
Doing Gender-Justice in Language Education: Open-access materials and coalitional efforts
Kris Kinsley (The University of Arizona)
Moderator: Kiki Kosnick (Augustana College)
This workshop will center on the presentation of a series of open-access publications and materials created for teachers of all languages, based on data collected from French languages and learners. At the end of the session, attendees will engage in collaborative exploration of nonbinary languaging data in a gender-just pedagogical framework, leveraging an open-access introduction to gender-just applied linguistics for language educators. Participants will be offered a series of data-driven pedagogical exercises which we will complete together. We will discuss how they might be adapted for use in our contexts of teaching and learning.
1:25 – 2:25 PM
Panel 3: Gender-Incluse Pedagogies: Strategies and Innovations
Moderator: Francesca Ricciardelli (University of Southern California)
- Addressing Gender Diversity in Romance Language Teaching: An Action Plan
Bel Olid and Nicolas Portugal (University of Chicago) - Giving Voice to All: Gender-Just Pedagogies for Italian Beginners
Riccardo Amorati (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Teaching Gender-Inclusive Spanish Using Comprehensible Input
Kodi Rain and Theresa Jensen (Montessori School of Northampton / Millard North High School)
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Closing Keynote Speech
Teaching and Thinking beyond the Binary: Lessons from Designing a Gender-Inclusive Language Curriculum
Maureen Gallagher, Australian National University, Australia
3:30 – 3:40 PM
Closing Remarks