We are pleased to invite you to this two-day workshop on the relationship between grammatical gender and ‘natural’ gender in order to bring together specialists in the linguistics of gender to reflect on these two notions: how they relate to each other, how they interact, and what potential alignments and mismatches between the two exist, and how the relationships between grammatical and ‘natural’ gender play out in language variation and linguistic typology. Moreover, the workshop findings on language structure will make an informed contribution to current public debate on gender in language.

Talks will be held by (in alphabetical order)

Marc Allassonnière-Tang (CNRS Éco Anthropologie) • Xavier Bach (Trinity College, Oxford) • Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Cité) • Francesca Di Garbo (Aix-Marseille University/CNRS Parole et Langage) • Luise Esher (CNRS-LLACAN) • Sebastian Fedden (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris) • Sascha Gaglia (Freie Universität Berlin) • Vera Gheno (Università degli Studi di Firenze) • Valentina Ibba (Freie Universität Berlin) • Marie-Claude Marsolier (CEA Saclay & CNRS Éco Anthropologie) • Tania Paciaroni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) • Christin Schütze (Philipps-Universität Marburg) • Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) • Olga Steriopolo (ZAS Berlin) • Priscille Touraille (CNRS Éco Anthropologie) • Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN) • Annemarie Verkerk (Saarland University) • Bernhard Wälchli (Stockholm University) • Marine Wauquier (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris)

The workshop is funded by the Oxford-Berlin Partnership, a collaboration between the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) and the University of Oxford.