<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>first of all, <b style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#ff0000">Happy New Year</font></b>! This year is going to be a great one for IGALA with the conference approaching and I hope to meet many of you in Hong Kong! (please do not forget that we are still accepting submissions from graduate students ONLY - deadline 5th January).</div><div><br></div><div>Today I am writing with regard to <b>our blog</b>! The first issue was a great success and the second issue is on its way, indeed we will be posting more contributions later this month. You can access the blog <a href="http://igalaweb.wix.com/igala#!igala-blog/cbfq">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>We have now open the <b>call for posts</b> for the next issues (published in March/April). We would love to receive your contributions on the topic of language and gender. If you feel like sharing stories, events, reflections on how 'gender' may affect or is affected by language, we would be more than happy to share it on our website. Whether you are a member of staff or a student or a member of a non-academic audience please do send your contributions. We will review them and advise you on changes and/or the date of publication.</div><div><br></div><div>The deadline for submitting your post is <b>15 February 2016</b>. You can send it to <a href="mailto:federicaformato.ac@gmail.com">federicaformato.ac@gmail.com</a>. <span style="color:rgb(41,40,40)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The posts must be in <b>English</b> (<u>and</u> in another language if you wish) and its word count should not exceed <b>500-700 words</b>.</font></span></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px"><font color="blue"><font color="black" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:10pt"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:10pt;background:white">Federica Formato BA, MA, PhD</span><span style="color:silver;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:7pt"> </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Researcher in Language and Gender</span><span style="color:black"> </span></font></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">Member Advisory Council </span><i style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">IGALA</i><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"> (International Gender and Language Association)</span></p><font color="#000000" face="times new roman,serif" size="2"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="color:black"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="2"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:13.3333px;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;vertical-align:middle;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2">Lecturer in Multimodality - Loughborough University</font></font></p><p style="font-size:13.3333px;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;vertical-align:middle;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2">Lecturer in Language and Gender - Westminster University</font></font></p><p style="font-size:13.3333px;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;vertical-align:middle;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2">Lecturer in Corpus Linguistics - Salford University</font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="times new roman,serif" size="2"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="color:black"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2"><br></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="color:black"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2">Columnist <i>Lingua di Genere</i></font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="times new roman,serif" size="2"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/linguadigenere" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="2">http://tinyurl.com/linguadigenere</font></span></a></span></p><font color="#000000" face="times new roman,serif" size="2"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="2"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="times new roman,serif" size="2"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;background:white"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(166,77,121);background:white">"Make sure the fortune that you seek <font face="times new roman,serif">i</font></span><span style="color:rgb(166,77,121);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;background:white"><font face="times new roman,serif">s the fortune that you need" (B.Harper)</font></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></span></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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