Sex in Romance (SiR2025): Perspectives to Gender and Sexuality in Romance Languages, University of Helsinki 25.–26.8.2025
Updated: 14 August 2025
| Monday 25.8.2025 | ||
| 8.30–9.15 |
Registration Location: Unioninkatu 34 (University of Helsinki main building, entrance from the Senaatintori Square), third floor close to hall U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
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| 9.15–9.30 |
Conference opening Pekka Posio Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
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| 9.30–10.30 |
Plenary Session 1: Antonia Virginia Acuña Ferreira Chair: Pekka Posio Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
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| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee break | |
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Session 1a: Sociolinguistics Chair: Johanna Isosävi Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
Session 2a: Discourse analysis and literature Chair: Silvia Ramírez Gelbes Location: U4072 |
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| 11.00–11.30 | Sven Kachel et al. Do Gender and Sexual Orientation Stereotypes Encompass Morphosyntactic Features: Experimental Evidence from Mexico and Spain |
Beatriz de la Fuente Marina El léxico erótico en la comedia romana y su traducción al castellano renacentista
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| 11.30–12.00 |
Pekka Posio et al. The CoLaGe Corpus for the Study of Language and Gender in Spanish |
Teresa Gruber & Düstersiek Liliana Sex and the German Gaze on Hispanic Culture: Hispanisms in German Pop Music |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Fien De Latte et al. Does speakers’ gender affect the use of verbs in the first-person singular in Spanish? Evidence from Mexico and Spain |
Sara Federico & Samuel Vernet Queering The Game in Marseille: Do Female Rappers Subvert Hetero-Capitalist Order? |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch break | |
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Session 1b: Sociolinguistics Chair: Carmen Acosta Vicente / Krista Leipivaara Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
Session 2b: Discourse analysis, literature and translation Chair: Teresa Gruber Location: U4072 |
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| 14.00–14.30 |
Nele Van Den Driessche Gender, Identity, and Language Change in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Anglicisms in Spanish youth language |
Jacob dos Santos Biziak & Mônica Graciela Zoppi Fontana Body, Subjectivation and Otherness in a Short Story by Clarice Lispector: a Materialist Reading on Enunciation, Language and Literature
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| 14.30–15.00 |
Joshua James Zwisler Spanish T-V Pronoun Choice and Male Sexuality in Ibagué, Colombia |
Petra Svobodová & Jana Vanečková Moral Guardians of Brazil: Bolsonaro and Evangelical Discourse in Relation to Gender and Sexuality |
| 15.00–15.30 |
Iiris Rennicke et al. Sociophonetics of /s/ in the Spanish of Guadalajara (Mexico) and Valencia (Spain) |
Silvia Ramírez Gelbes & Ana Costantini Orrego Insults in the Feminine in Argentinian Spanish: Rudeness and Subtle Sexism in Language |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Yu-Tse Lee The Seductive Voice: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Vocal Strategies in French-Speaking Belgium |
Simo Määttä Translating sexual orientation in an asylum interview |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16.30–17:30 |
Plenary Session 2 Fabio Fasoli Perceiving Sexual Orientation from Voice: Exploring Stereotypes and Discrimination Chair: Sven Kachel Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
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| Tuesday 26.8.2025 | ||
| 9.30–10.30 |
Plenary Session 3 Julie Abbou Linguistic structures, social structures and breaches. Considerations in French language Chair: Johanna Isosävi Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
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| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee break | |
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Session 3a: Morphology and gender Chair: Iiris Rennicke Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
Session 4a: Gender inclusive and gender-neutral language Chair: Mattia Retta Location: F3010 |
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| 11.00–11.30 |
Ben Papadopoulos Investigating the Romance Languages as the Most Gendered in the World |
Irene Caiazzo IncluInstIt: a Corpus for Analyzing Italian Gendered and Inclusive Language on Instagram |
| 11.30–12.00 |
Federica Marenghi An Experimental Investigation of the Innovative Suffix -ə in Italian |
Laura Nadal Lenguaje inclusivo y representaciones mentales: un estudio sobre el masculino genérico y sus alternativas en español e italiano |
| 12.00–12.30 |
Elena Pepponi & Gloria Comandini Simplification and Inclusion in Institutional Italian. A First Study on the ALIAS Corpus |
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| 12:30–14.00 | Lunch break | |
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Session 5b: Gender, language and politics Chair: Marlies Jansegers Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
Session 4b: Gender inclusive and gender-neutral language Chair: Andrea Carcelén Guerrero Location: F3010 |
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| 14.00–14.30 |
Krista Leipivaara Argumentation and Pluricentric Dimensions during Belgian, French, and Swiss Parliamentary Discussions on Gender-inclusive Language |
Guillermo Miguel Pastrán Yáñez et al. Diversity Grammaticalized: -es in Gender Inclusive Spanish |
| 14.30–15.00 |
Laura Mariottini Gender identities in Spanish and Italian laws: a linguistic-discursive analysis |
Clémence Doumengès Gender-Inclusive Language and Regional Languages |
| 15.00–15.30 |
Iida Pulju & Mattia Retta Implicit Language in Political Discourse on Twitter: Interaction with Gender and Political Ideology
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Thom Westveer « Iel est petit ou petite, ou petit·e ? » How to Agree with the French Inclusive Pronoun iel? |
| 15.30–16.00 | Coffee break | |
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Session 5a: Gender, language and politics Chair: Krista Leipivaara Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) |
Session 4b: Gender inclusive and gender-neutral language Chair: Fien de Latte Location: F3010 |
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| 16.00–16:30 |
Tanja Trebucchi & Serena Coschignano Gender and Institutional Prestige in Turn Allocation: A Case Study of the Italian Political Talk Show Porta a Porta |
Andrea Carcelén Guerrero et al. Actitudes lingüísticas de hablantes de español ante el lenguaje inclusivo e igualitario. Estudio contrastivo entre Valencia (España) y Guadalajara (México) |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Cristophe Gagne Joys and Perils of Gender Neutrality: How the French Senate passed a Bill to ban Écriture Inclusive |
Marlies Jansegers & Linde Roels (Non-)Sexist Language in Spanish Politics: The Role of Ideology and Discourse Genre |
| 17:00-17:15 |
Location: U3032 (Karolina Eskelin) Closing words |
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| 18:00– | Social program for conference participants | |