GaLSig Event 30th April 2014

[Litosseliti, Evangelia]

Dear all,



Please find below details of the annual BAAL GaLSig event on Gender, Language and the Media, to be held in London on the 30th of April.

Please forward to colleagues and students who would be interested in attending, as places are filling up fast!



Best wishes,



Lia





Dr Lia Litosseliti
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
UK

l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk<mailto:l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk>
http://www.city.ac.uk/health/staff-directory/dr-lia-litosseliti


President of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) https://www.facebook.com/InternationalGenderandLanguageAssociationIGALA<https://www.facebook.com/InternationalGenderandLanguageAssociationIGALA>



Associate Editor of Gender and Language

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The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
7th BAAL Gender and Language Special Interest Group Event (GaLSig)

'Gender, Language and the Media'




Date: Wednesday 30th April 2014; 10.00am to 4.30pm
Place: Middlesex University, Media Department, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT.

Registration now open:

http://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=68


Keynote papers:

1.    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Middlesex University and weekly columnist for The Independent)
'Where are we now? Have we travelled any distance?'

2.    Judith Baxter (Aston University)
'Containing femininity: sexualised constructions of leading women in the news media'

3.    Deborah Cameron (Oxford University) and Tamar Holoshitz (Yale Law School)
'News journalism, language and the representation of sexual violence in conflict settings'

4.    Sara Mills (Sheffield Hallam University) on behalf of the Discourses of Marriage research group
'Implicit Homophobia'

5.    Georgina Turner (Loughborough University and the Guardian)
'Women on the back pages: gender, language and sports journalism'

6.    Joanna Thornborrow (University of Western Brittany)
'Media discourse and research practice: Where do we go with gender, representation and the social media?'


Rates: ?45 non-BAAL members; ?40 BAAL members: ?35 full-time students.
This includes lunch, refreshments and the event programme.

Location and directions to the Hendon campus:
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Location/hendon/index.aspx

The full programme will be available on the Gender and Language SiG website: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/organisations/galsig/events.htm from the end of March


For further information, please contact the organisers:
Sylvia Shaw: S.K.Shaw at mdx.ac.uk<mailto:S.K.Shaw at mdx.ac.uk>;
Jo Angouri J.Angouri at warwick.ac.uk<mailto:J.Angouri at warwick.ac.uk>

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