1. English as an International Language: Teaching perspectives

Luis Guerra and Paulo Mendes

University of Évora, Portugal

Mid-Atlantic English and the EFL learner

Juan de Dios Martinez Agudo

University of Extremadura,  Badajoz, Spain

Pedagogical flexibility in FLT

Denise Santos

University of Reading, UK

Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Brazil: New Directions

Dagmar Scheu Lottgen and José Saura Sanchez

University of Murcia, Spain

Intercultural competence bridging communication problems in ELT

2. Private vices, public virtues: Gendered sexuality and citizenship (parallel with  session 3)

Linda Silaghi

Hungary

Forms of subversive desire in Winterson’s Powerbook

Miodrag Kojadinovic

Queer Studies Programme, Belgrade

‘Harder, harder!’ – Un cri primâle: A look at some themes of gay algolagnia and their (mis)representations in linguo-didactic manuals

Monica Pa

New York, USA

Beyond the pleasure principle: the criminalization of sadomasochistic sex

Nancy Pedri

Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands

Engendering portraits: verbal and visual portrayals of gender in Gender Outlaw and The Last Time I Wore a Dress

Ayaz Latif Palijo

Sindh Research Council, Sindh, Pakistan

South Asian conflicts between religion and gender balance

3. Private vices, public virtues: Gendered sexualities and citizenship (parallel with session 2)

Elleke Boehmer

Nottingham Trent University, UK

Tropes of yearning and desire: questions of sexuality in Zimbabwean women’s writing

Jose B. Loureiro

London College of Printing, UK

Dismantling machismo and homophobia: talking about rural x urban masculinities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Simone Browne

University of Toronto, Canada

‘Passport babies’: border control and the peculiar case of Mavis Barker vs. Canada

Tracy Simmons

Nottingham Trent University, UK

‘Akin to marriage’ same-sex couples and the unmarried partners rule in the UK

Michelle M. Wright

Macalaster College, St. Paul, USA

How I got Ovah: from Black national to Black diasporic subjects

4. Trajectories of the self

Peter Bansel

Centre for Critical Psychology, Australia

Subjectivity in a changing Australian labour market

Inge Aures

Lives interrupted: Exile experience and the construction of a new self

Niels Buch-Jepsen

Cornell University, USA

No subject? E-mail, epistolarity, and authorship

Niamh Stephenson

Illness trajectories a ontologising neoliberalism?