[With apologies for cross-posting]
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011
IGALA 7 (7th International Gender and Language Association Conference)
invites submissions for oral presentations, posters, organized round tables
(aka panels), and workshops on all scientific approaches and disciplines to
analyzing and interpreting the relationships among language, gender and
sexuality.
With the theme *Resignifying Gender and Sexuality in Language and Discourse*,
IGALA 7 aims to bring together scholars from diverse fields of knowledge as
well as geographical regions who are interested in broadening and deepening
our understanding of the complex relationships among language, gender and
sexuality. In so doing, we encourage new ways of signifying these concepts
and their interrelationships, in the following conference thematic areas:
1. Gender, sexuality, body and identities
2. Gender, sexuality and health
3. Gendered performances as discourse
4. Gender and (dis)empowerment
5. Gender, class, ethnicity and age
6. Gender, sexuality and institutions
7. Gender, media and technology
8. Gender and violence
Guest Speakers
Celia Kitzinger (University of York, UK)
Guacira Lopes Louro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Iriny Lopes (Brazilian Minister for Women's Affairs) - to be confirmed
Jussara Reis Prá (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Kira Hall (University of Colorado, USA)
Lilian Krakowski Chazan (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos, Brazil)
Liliana Cabral Bastos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Maria Izabel Magalhães (Universidade de Brasília; Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil)
Mary Bucholtz (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Some important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011
Notification of reviewers’ decision: January 15, 2012
Deadline for early bird registration payment by: January 31, 2012
Final deadline for conference registration payment (for your submission to
be included in the conference program): February 29, 2012
Deadline for becoming an IGALA member: April 1st, 2011.
Further information on IGALA 7
Website: http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Igala-7/187800897935547
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/igalabrazil
Submission process starts at:
http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/index.php/igala/IGALA7/user/account
Conference Chair: Ana Cristina Ostermann, UNISINOS, Brazil
Alexandre do Nascimento Almeida, UFCSPA, Brazil
Aline Winter Sudbrack, UFCSPA, Brazil
Ana Maria de Mattos Guimarães, UNISINOS,
Brazil
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, University of Birmingham, UK
Cristiane Maria Schnack, UNISINOS, Brazil
Daniela Andrade, UNISINOS, Brazil
Janine Trevisan, PUCRS, Brazil
Joseane de Souza, UNISINOS, Brazil
Marcia del Corona, UNISINOS, Brazil
Mariléia Sell, UNISINOS, Brazil
Sílvio Cazella, UNISINOS/UFCSPA, Brazil