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International Gender and Language Association

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Formation
  
1999

President
  
Michelle M. Lazar

Purpose
  
An international interdisciplinary academic group that promotes research on language, gender, and sexuality

The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), is an international interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes research on language, gender, and sexuality. Michelle M. Lazar is its current president.

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History

The association was formed in 1999, having developed out of the graduate-student-run Berkeley Women and Language Group. IGALA holds a biannual conference. The society's official affiliated academic journal is Gender and Language, launched in 2007 by Equinox Press. IGALA also publishes volumes of selected proceedings. Together these projects have helped shepherd in the expansion of gender studies into a wider set of topics from a wider range of regions than before, expanding beyond the earlier focus on English speakers that dominated work of earlier decades.

Conferences

  • IGALA 1 - Stanford University, Stanford, California, May 5–7, 2000
  • IGALA 2 - Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, United Kingdom, April 12–14, 2002
  • IGALA 3 - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, June 5–7, 2004
  • IGALA 4 - University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, November 8–10, 2006
  • IGALA 5 - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, July 3–5, 2008
  • IGALA 6 - Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan, September 18–20, 2010
  • IGALA 7 - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil, June 20–22, 2012
  • IGALA 8 - Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, June 5–7, 2014
  • IGALA 9 - City University of Hong Kong, May 19–21, 2016

    • References

    International Gender and Language Association Wikipedia
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