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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">IGALA 9 Committee</span><span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">__________________________________________________________________________________________</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Below is the final call for papers for
IGALA 9. <b>The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 15 December
2015</b>.</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">We are also pleased to announce the
offer of the <b>IGALA Hardship Registration fee</b> (HKD250) for a limited
number of scholars from economically disadvantaged countries who attend and
present at IGALA 9. For the application guidelines, please refer to the
registration page of our website:
<a href="http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/registration.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/registration.jsp</a>.</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Details of the conference can also be
found in the attached poster. <span style="color:black">If this is not
your research field, could we ask you to forward it to those who might be
interested? Thank you.</span></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Best wishes,</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">IGALA 9 Committee</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">IGALA 9</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Time and Transition: Gender, Sexuality,
Discourse and Language</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">19-21 May 2016</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">City University of Hong Kong</span></i><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Final Call for Papers</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"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. </span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"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?</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">More specifically:<br>
- How do gender, sexuality, discourse, and language intersect with rapid
change?<br>
- How are transitions, discourse, language, gender, and sexuality mutually
constitutive?<br>
- How are meanings discursively constructed across various timescales in
relation to gender and sexuality? <br>
- How do short-term gender performances persist across time as we interact in
the present? <br>
- How do we project our gendered and sexualized ‘selves’ and societies into the
future while drawing on the past?</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"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
(<a href="http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/speakers.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/speakers.jsp</a>)</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Panel abstract submission has been
closed, but we are still inviting abstract submission for Individual Papers.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><br>
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Submission of Abstracts:<br>
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All submissions have to be made via our online ''EasyAbs'' page on Linguist
List:
(<a href="http://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=6102JA4458BE925840A050441" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=6102JA4458BE925840A050441</a>).<br>
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Deadline for individual paper abstract submission is <b>15 December 2015
(extended)</b>. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors in January
2016.<br>
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Word limits for abstracts: <br>
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Panel overview (submitted by panel organizer) - 750 words<br>
Individual panel contribution and individual paper - 500 words</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN">Conference committee </span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN">Chair</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN">Brian King</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN">Members</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Agnes Kang<br>
Allyson Jule<br>
Federica Formato<br>
Mandy Hoi Man Yu<br>
Ben Rowlett<br>
Anna Wing-bo Tso</span><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN">Secretary</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Queenie Wong</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">You can find more information on the
website of the conference: <a href="http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/" target="_blank">http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/</a> or
visit our Facebook page <span style="color:rgb(0,102,204)"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/IGALA9" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.facebook.com/IGALA9</span></a></span>,
Twitter @igala9 or contact us at <a href="mailto:igala9hk@gmail.com" target="_blank">igala9hk@gmail.com</a>.</span><span></span></p>
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