Resignifying Gender and Sexuality in Language and Discourse (IGALA 7)

[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