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This fifth ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University in the North-East of England, and hosted by the University’s Applied Linguistics & Communication (ALC) research team. ALC at Newcastle has a long and proud history of research in social interaction research, and L2 interaction more specifically, dating back over 20 years.

Belonging is a complex and contested issue within the queer community. Those who identify as queer often experience a complicated sense of (dis)belonging—not only when navigating heteronormative social structures that privilege heterosexuality and cisgender identities, but also within queer communities and spaces themselves. By emphasizing queer (dis)belonging, we wish to interrogate the politics of inclusion and exclusion both within and beyond queer spaces, inviting research that critically examines how queer people negotiate their identities within: i) social structures such as political systems, class hierarchies, nation states, kinship networks, and religious institutions; and ii) technologies such as AI, social media, and digital communication.

Queer (dis)belonging