<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear all,</span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia">Below is the second call for papers for IGALA 9. </font><font face="Georgia"><b>The deadline for panel abstract submission has been extended to 15 November 2015</b></font><font face="Georgia">. Details of the conference can also be found in the attached poster. <font color="#000000">If this is not your research field, could we ask you to forward it to those who might be interested? Thank you.</font></font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia">Best wishes,</font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia">IGALA 9 Committee</font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif">__________________________________________________________________________________________</font></span></font></div><div align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif" size="4"><b>IGALA 9</b></font></span></font></div><div align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia" size="4">Time and Transition: Gender, Sexuality, Discourse and Language</font></span></font></div><div align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia" size="4"><b>19-21 May 2016</b></font></span></font></div><div align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia" size="4"><i>City University of Hong Kong</i></font></span></font></div><div align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></div><div align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia"><b>Second Call for Papers</b></font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif">The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) is delighted to announce its next conference, IGALA9, which will take place at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on 19-21 May 2016. </font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif">The theme for IGALA 9 is Time and Transition: Gender, sexuality, discourse and language. This theme reflects Hong Kong, a city in which time and transition are unusually salient and omnipresent themes in social life. Working in this context has prompted the organizers to reflect on timescales and transitions in relation to this conference. How do time and transition interact with gender, sexuality, discourse and language? And how is this interaction manifest in the rest of the world?</font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif">More specifically:</font><font face="Georgia,serif"><br> - How do gender, sexuality, discourse, and language intersect with rapid change?</font><font face="Georgia,serif"><br> - How are transitions, discourse, language, gender, and sexuality mutually constitutive?</font><font face="Georgia,serif"><br> - How are meanings discursively constructed across various timescales in relation to gender and sexuality? </font><font face="Georgia,serif"><br> - How do short-term gender performances persist across time as we interact in the present? </font><font face="Georgia,serif"><br> - How do we project our gendered and sexualized </font><font face="Georgia,serif"><span lang="zh-CN">‘</span></font><font face="Georgia,serif">selves</font><font face="Georgia,serif"><span lang="zh-CN">’</span></font><font face="Georgia,serif"> and societies into the future while drawing on the past?</font></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 10pt;text-align:left"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif">We have invited six prominent scholars in the field of language, gender and sexuality:  Sally McConnell-Ginet, Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, Peter A. Jackson, Jie Yang, Tommaso Milani (</font><a href="https://exchange.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=NXRIodBnF2y3-BDNQyw6Dp4aAqLZFdkExboVayB6b4W6NkUCv9_SCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBlAG4AZwBsAGkAcwBoAC4AYwBpAHQAeQB1AC4AZQBkAHUALgBoAGsALwBlAG4ALwBwAG8AcgB0AGEAbAAvAGkAZwBhAGwAYQAvAHMAcABlAGEAawBlAHIAcwAuAGoAcwBwAA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.english.cityu.edu.hk%2fen%2fportal%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e="font-size:12pt;background-color:white"><font color="#222222" face="Georgia,serif"><span lang="en">Winnie Cheng</span></font></span></font></div><div align="justify" style="margin:0px 0px 10pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Georgia,serif">You can find more information on the website of the conference: </font><a href="https://exchange.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=glP7HgH3omAQiOEMqiCqTj2jDq9iJE2I-GgZuKZwiCW6NkUCv9_SCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBlAG4AZwBsAGkAcwBoAC4AYwBpAHQAeQB1AC4AZQBkAHUALgBoAGsALwBlAG4ALwBwAG8AcgB0AGEAbAAvAGkAZwBhAGwAYQAvAA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.english.cityu.edu.hk%2fen%2fportal%2figala%2f" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="Georgia,serif">http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/</font></a><font face="Georgia,serif"> or visit our Facebook page </font><a href="https://exchange.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=8VUV65uYbzhjxLhfvN2V1V9wmHWoGvxofyDRbjBM5fW6NkUCv9_SCGgAdAB0AHAAcwA6AC8ALwB3AHcAdwAuAGYAYQBjAGUAYgBvAG8AawAuAGMAbwBtAC8ASQBHAEEATABBADkA&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fIGALA9" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="Georgia,serif">https://www.facebook.com/IGALA9</font></a>, <font face="Georgia">Twitter @igala9</font><font face="Georgia">  or contact us at </font><a href="https://exchange.lancs.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=OJxvEvr94XwCgyOnlaPAHRuW50blKw7tB2M_k6cv7-66NkUCv9_SCG0AYQBpAGwAdABvADoAaQBnAGEAbABhADkAaABrAEAAZwBtAGEAaQBsAC4AYwBvAG0A&URL=mailto%3aigala9hk%40gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="Georgia">igala9hk@gmail.com</font></a></span></font></div></div></span></font></div></div></div></div></div>