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<div>Dear IGALA members,</div>
<div><font face="tahoma">Please remember to vote in the IGALA elections before December 5th (details attached below).
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<div><font face="tahoma">If you are a member who has already voted but haven't used your full name, please remember that your vote won't count; you can visit the polls again and vote using your name.</font></div>
<div>Thank you.</div>
<div><font face="tahoma">Lia Litosseliti</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Litosseliti, Evangelia [L.Litosseliti@CITY.AC.UK]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 November 2012 16:41<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [GALA-L] IGALA elections: Voting<br>
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<div>For the attention of all IGALA members</div>
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</span></font><strong><b><u><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) Elections</span></font></u></b></strong></p>
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</span></font></u></b>The call for nominations for IGALA Secretary and IGALA Vice-President (President-Elect) is now closed. Thank you for your nominations. Paid up IGALA members are now invited to vote for these positions between November 5th and December
5th. Each member can vote once for each of these roles. A reminder of the duties for each position can be found below.</p>
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</span></font><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">HOW TO VOTE:</span></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">1. Read the candidates’ statements (found at the bottom of this message)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">2. Visit <a href="http://doodle.com/9sfgrfmfs3ysiaeb" target="_blank">
<font color="#0066cc">http://doodle.com/9sfgrfmfs3ysiaeb</font></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
</span></font>to vote for the position of <strong>Secretary</strong></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">3. Visit <a href="http://doodle.com/aha4nwv6z9fyxqbx" target="_blank">
<font color="#800080">http://doodle.com/aha4nwv6z9fyxqbx</font></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
</span></font>to vote for the position of <strong>Vice-President (President-Elect)</strong></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span lang="EN-US">I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage all members to vote -- this is a great opportunity for you to have a say in how the organisation is changing -- and to invite
non members to join us. Please remember that IGALA membership includes a subscription to the journal. You can join IGALA as a regular member from the Equinox website (<a href="http://www.equinoxpub.com/GL" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">http://www.equinoxpub.com/GL</font></a>)
by going to the subscription pages and choosing IGALA membership. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thank you in advance for your votes!</span></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Lia Litosseliti</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">IGALA President</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></font></p>
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<strong>Secretary</strong> is responsible for</font></span>:</p>
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<li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">gathering agenda items for meetings</span>
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</span></font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">producing and distributing agendas</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">keeping Minutes of IGALA Executive and Open meetings</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">maintaining records of meetings and decisions</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">producing and distributing/posting Minutes of the meetings to the IGALA Membership</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">in conjunction with the Vice President/President-elect, organising elections and distributing/posting
results to the IGALA membership</span> </font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and President-elect)</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">post runs for two years</font></span></li></ul>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang="EN-US">The Vice-President/President-Elect
</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang="EN-US">is responsible for:</span></font></font></font></p>
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<li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">supporting the President as appropriate in all the President’s duties</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">assuming the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and succeeding to the
office of <strong>President*</strong> at the expiration of the term as President-elect</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and Secretary)</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">chairing the Nominations Committee for Advisory and Executive IGALA committee members</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">running the IGALA (Post)graduate Student Essay Competition (including chairing the committee, one
member of whom will be the Graduate Student Representative)</span> </font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Times New Roman">post runs for two years</font></span></li></ul>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial">* The
<b>President</b> [<em>currently Lia Litosseliti, until 2014</em>] is responsible for
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<li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">working for a policy that balances the needs of members with service to gender and language study</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">representing IGALA and when appropriate and necessary speaking on its behalf, including in a lobbying
capacity</span> </font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">working to develop relations between IGALA and other academic, professional and political bodies,
as appropriate</span> </font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">consulting with Executives on issues concerning the management and running of IGALA and coming to
a decision about these issues on the basis of Executive's wishes</span> </font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Times New Roman">ensuring that Executives have regular e-discussions on issues relating to IGALA
</font></span></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Times New Roman">ensuring that the IGALA conference takes place and liaising with the organiser
</font></span></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">chairing (a) an Executive meeting, and (b) an Open Business meeting at the IGALA conference</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">ensuring that decisions that Executives make are followed through (in conjunction with the Secretary)</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">drawing up the Agenda for Executive Meetings (in conjunction with the Secretary) and running the meetings</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">maintaining links with the editors of the
<i>Gender and Language</i> journal</span> </font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US">monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the Vice-President/President-Elect and Secretary)</span>
</font></font></font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">post runs for two years</font></span></li></ul>
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<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><strong><u>Candidates for the position of Secretary (3):</u></strong></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1. Angeliki Alvanoudi<br>
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I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (my defense is expected to take place in early 2013). In my thesis I examine the social and cognitive dimensions of grammatical gender in person reference
in interaction. My research areas are the relationship between language and gender, the intersection between language, culture and cognition, and issues of interdisciplinarity in Women’s/Gender Studies. I currently work as an assistant researcher at the Institute
of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triandafyllidis Foundation). I participated as a co-teacher in the Intensive Programme ‘Practising Interdisciplinarity in European Gender Studies’ organized by the Institute for Gender Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences
at Radboud University, Nijmegen in 2008. Since 2006 I have been actively engaged in European Gender Studies networks, such as the Advanced Thematic Network on European Gender Studies (ATHENA), the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation
(ATGENDER) and the GenderAct network “Academic Cultures and Transformation in European Gender Studies”. I have participated in several conferences; the most recent ones include IGALA 7 in Sao Leopoldo and the 8th European Feminist Research Conference in Budapest.
I have given talks in panels and workshops on the following themes: Challenges for Women’s/Gender Studies in the Neoliberal University (Utrecht 2011), Transdisciplinary Revisited (Berlin 2011), Gender Studies in Times of Austerity and Change (Budapest 2012).
My most recent publications include: co-authored with Th.-S. Pavlidou (in press) “Grammatical gender and cognition” ISTAL 20, (2009) “Travelling between languages and disciplines: linguistic and interdisciplinary translation practices in Women’s/Gender Studies”
Graduate Journal of Social Sciences 6(3), (2009) “Teaching gender in the neoliberal university” in Gronold, Hipfl & Lund Pedersen (eds.), Teaching with the Third Wave – New Feminists' Explorations of Teaching and Institutional Contexts, (2009) “Open letter:
golden boys, marxist ghosts and nomadic feminism” European Journal of Women’s Studies 16(2).
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2. Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio<br>
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I am a senior lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain, where I have been teaching several undergraduate and master courses since 2001. My main research area is Corpus-based CDA, where I focus on notions such as representation and
power enactment as manifested mainly in public discourse. I have also published on language and gender, and have paid attention to the analysis of the way gender (identity) is construed through discourse. Some of the papers connected with this field are the<br>
following:<br>
-1999: "The Playboy of the Western World: The Subversion of a Traditional<br>
Conception of Irishness?”, Journal of Literary Studies, 15(3/4):425-458<br>
- 2000a: “From Countess Cathleen to Nora Clitheroe: an exploration into<br>
Ireland’s Women”, British and American Studies, 6: 22-30<br>
- 2000b: “Gender, Sex and Stereotyping in the Collins COBUILD English<br>
Language Dictionary”, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 20(2): 211-230<br>
- 2002: “‘I want to be a prime minister’, or what linguistic choice<br>
can do for campaigning politicians”, Language and Literature, 11(3):<br>
243-261<br>
- 2004: “The discourse of good and evil in twentieth-century<br>
speeches”, in M. Breen (ed.), Truth, reconciliation, and evil, Amsterdam<br>
& NY: Rodopi, 45-65<br>
- 2007: Corpora in the foreign classroom (co-edited with J. Santana and L.<br>
Quereda). Amsterdam & NY: Rodopi<br>
- 2009: “The Metaphorical Construction of Ireland”, in K. Ahrens<br>
(ed.), Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors. Houndmills & NY:<br>
Palgrave/Macmillan, 112-136<br>
-2010: “Side Effects of the Linguistic Construction of Others’<br>
Wickedness”, in N. Billias (ed.), Promoting and Producing. Amsterdam &<br>
NY: Rodopi, 33-63<br>
- 2011a: “Politics and Language: The Representation of some “Others”<br>
in the Spanish Parliament”, in J. Collins & N. Vosburg (eds), Lesbian<br>
Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell<br>
University Press and Rowman & Littlefield, 119-148<br>
- 2011b: “Critical Discourse Analysis, an Overview”, Nordic Journal of<br>
English Studies, 10(1): 183-210</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">3. Agnes Kang<br>
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My name is Agnes Kang, and I am happy to accept the nomination for IGALA Secretary. I have been teaching Language and Gender along with other courses in sociolinguistics and discourse at the University of Hong Kong since 2000, after completing my Ph.D. at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. My research has centered on discourse and identity studies and interactional sociolinguistics, and in the last several years I’ve expanded my research areas to include research in language and gender. The first venue
I sought for presenting this research was the 5th IGALA meeting in 2008 in Wellington. I remember that meeting fondly as a place where one has opportunities to meet and talk with international researchers interested in similar issues, which, unfortunately,
is not always the case at international conferences. I am running for IGALA Secretary for two main reasons. First, I would like to work closely with some of the interactional researchers I have met in the last several years to strengthen and develop IGALA
as an organization that continues to support data-driven research on gender, language and sexuality. Second, I hope that by serving as IGALA Secretary, I can raise the profile of gender and language research in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region as a whole.
I am currently working on a paper on “Kong girls”, a negatively charged gender stereotype in Hong Kong. I am interested in how this stereotype takes shape through participation in online discussion forums, and what this can tell us about gender identities
in Hong Kong. I believe any position on the Executive Council of IGALA entails a role in promoting the study of gender and discourse in one’s local communities. It is an exciting time to be involved in gender and language research, which continues to become
more international and more interdisciplinary in scope.<br>
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<p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1. Michelle M. Lazar</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Michelle Lazar (Ph.D from Lancaster University, UK) is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of
Singapore. In her research on gender, she brings to bear a critical perspective to the study of femininities and masculinities in discourse. She is editor of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power and Ideology in Discourse and Communicating
(Post)Feminisms in Discourse, and is currently completing a monograph on critical analyses of gender and feminisms in discourse. She is founding editor of the Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse monograph series, and is on the editorial boards of ten
international journals, including Discourse and Society, Gender and Language, Critical Discourse Studies and Social Semiotics. She peer reviews articles for numerous other international journals including Feminist Media Studies, Women’s Studies International
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In terms of administrative experience, Michelle is the Academic Convenor of the Gender Studies programme at her university, Assistant Dean of Research, and Head of the Singapore Research Nexus in her Faculty. Michelle has served many years in IGALA committees,
first as an Advisory Council member, in charge of promoting the internationalisation of IGALA through the organisation of local gender and language events around the world, and second as the Secretary in the Executive Committee. Apart from her duties as Secretary,
she also chaired the IGALA7 International Bursary Committee and has been involved in running the elections for both the Advisory and Executive committees. As a native of Singapore, and a scholar from the global South, Michelle lends another important perspective
and voice to the Association, and remains strongly committed to the internationalisation of IGALA.
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy<br>
Department of Language and Communication Science<br>
City University London<br>
Northampton Square<br>
London EC1V 0HB<br>
UK<br>
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