Join Andrew Nevins, Professor of Language Sciences at University College London, for a series of podcasts discussing the underrepresentation of minoritized languages within languages sciences research.
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12/1/2022
Join Andrew Nevins, Professor of Language Sciences at University College London, for a series of podcasts discussing the underrepresentation of minoritized languages within languages sciences research.
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12/1/2022
UCL Women's Liberation are delighted to welcome Dr Katie Alcock: "Children of preschool and early primary age often have poor understanding of logic and this extends to concepts of sex and gender, and often leads to younger children displaying more stereotyped preferences and behaviour than older children. I will discuss the literature on this aspect of development including how this applies to children with autism and what other influences may affect this."
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12/1/2022
UCL Women’s Liberation are delighted to welcome Dr Karleen Gribble.
"In early 2022, I was co-author, with nine others, of a paper on the importance of sexed language in communications about pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. The paper attracted a lot of interest and has had nearly 100 000 reads. It is being applied in diverse contexts including being cited in the UK parliament as underpinning policy on use of sexed language in legislation. The paper was responding to the trend to desex language and much of the discussion around this has focused on the impact of desexing language on women’s rights. However, my work is very much anchored in a child rights perspective. In this presentation I will describe how I came to the sexed and gendered language issue and how and why ‘mother’ is such an important word in protecting the rights and needs of children."
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11/22/2022
Both conservative and progressive movements have a long history of engagement in verbal hygiene, attempting to influence the use of language so that it aligns with their beliefs and values. In this talk I will focus on the ways in which progressive movements, including feminism, have sought to regulate language-use in pursuit of political goals, looking at the forms their interventions have taken and the questions or problems these may raise. ‘Use the right words’ may be a familiar exhortation, but determining what ‘the right words’ are is a more complicated matter than it might look. UCL Women's Liberation welcomes Professor Deborah Cameron.
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3/25/2022