Schedule :: 30 July, 2024
Location: Technische Universität Berlin
Format
Each session will have 35 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for commentator and 30 minutes for discussion.
16:30–16:45 Welcome
16:45–18:00 Anna Klieber (Cardiff), "'Call Me by My Name!': Investigating the Harms of Deadnaming"
Deadnaming – calling a trans person by a name they have discarded – is a common problem faced by trans people, and is generally considered to be very harmful. When aiming to understand the harms of deadnaming, it is tempting equate the issue with misgendering – using an incorrect name has similar effects to using an incorrect pronoun. This talk, however, wishes to offer a different picture: While misgendering can be (and usually is) part of the reason that deadnaming is harmful, I will defend the idea that the harm of deadnaming can be understood as a an act of subordinating speech.
Comments: Cassie Herbert (Illinois State)
Chair: Willow Starr (Cornell)
19:00: Reception & Dinner
Admiralstraße 1-2, 10999 Berlin
(All participants are welcome, but we are only able to pay for the meals of organizers/speakers/commentators.)
Schedule :: 31 July, 2024
Location: Technische Universität Berlin
Format
Each session will have 35 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for commentator and 30 minutes for discussion.
9:45–10:00 Coffee & Welcome
10:00–11:15: Deborah Mühlebach (Freie Universität), "'Give me papers!' – Critique, Uptake, Agency"
Comments: Emil Eschenbach (Humboldt-Universität.)
Chair: Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin)
11:30–12:45: Gen Eickers (Bayreuth) & Sam Hesni (Boston U), “Gender Scripts and Gendered Scripts”
This paper has two aims. First, to provide a taxonomy and ontology of social scripts as they relate to gender, by making a distinction between gender scripts and gendered scripts. Second, to argue that these types help us make sense of people’s conceptualization of their own and others’ genders. We also point to how understanding scripts and gender in this way can give us a better grasp of what goes wrong in cases of misgendering, what goes right in cases of gender-affirmation, and how to identify steps towards more gender-inclusive scripts.
Comments: Luna Powierski (Humboldt-Universität)
Chair: Adriene Takaoka (Cornell)
12:45–14:30: Lunch
Some limited catering provided. Participants are also welcome to organize into smaller groups and visit one of the many nearby restaurants.
14:30–15:45: Adriene Takaoka (Cornell), "Philosophy of Language for the People"
Insults, generics, and non-dominant speakers.
Comments: Penelope Freund (Technische Univ. Berlin)
Chair: Willow Starr (Cornell)
16:00–17:15: Willow Starr (Cornell), "Grouping Signals and Social Practice"
The general aim of this paper is to take some first steps in developing an analysis of communication as a social practice: how it connects, aligns and organizes people into groups through repeated interaction and shared values, and how these groups engage in social conflict. I will attempt to motivate a central role for normative social scripts in this theory. This account of practice is then applied to understanding a phenomena I will call grouping signals, which are at the center of many current intergroup conflicts. Examples are drawn from anti-LGBTQ+ speech, anti-racist speech after the murder of George Floyd, and 'Gamergate'. Grouping signals implicitly call in-group members to engage in a practice that furthers their coalition’s aims. Because groups engage in social conflict and struggle, grouping signals can also invite antagonistic responses from out-group members. Understanding social conflict at this level, rather merely at the level of opposed beliefs is relevant to the analysis of polarization. Understanding the power of grouping signals also has implications for the ethics and politics of social conflict.
Comments: Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin)
Chair: Cassie Herbert (Illinois State)
17:30–18:00: Quill R Kukla (Georgetown): Concluding Discussion
Concluding discussion among participants, facilitated by Quill R Kukla.