<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Dear all,</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">The deadline for the *IGALA 9 Graduate Student Paper Award* is fast approaching - February 29th, 2016 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Looking forward to receiving your submissions soon!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) is calling for *language and gender* outstanding student papers. The theme of the IGALA 9 2016 conference is *Time & Transition: Gender, sexuality discourse and language*. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers which work within this broad thematic area. More specific topic areas in this area are detailed below:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">1. Gender, sexuality, body and identities<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">2. Gender, sexuality and health<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">3. Gendered performances as discourse<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">4. Gender and (dis)empowerment<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">5. Gender, class, ethnicity and age<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">6. Gender, sexuality and institutions<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">7. Gender, media and technology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">8. Gender and violence<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">9. Gender and sexuality studies in (applied) linguistics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">10. Gender and sexuality in literature <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Submissions should be 5,000- 7,000 words in length, in Word (.doc) format, Times New Roman 12 pt. font, and will be accepted in English only. Submissions should not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere and co-authored submissions are acceptable as long as all authors are graduate students. Submissions co-authored by advisors are not allowed. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Submissions should be emailed as an attachment to: <<a href="mailto:IGALA9paperprize@gmail.com" class="">IGALA9paperprize@gmail.com</a>>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Please include your name, address, department and university, telephone number, and email address in the body of the email; in addition, indicate your status as graduate student member of IGALA. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Awards to be presented at the IGALA 9 conference, May 19 - 21, 2016 at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">The winner will </span><span lang="PT-BR" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">receive a two year subscription to IGALA which includes a subscription to the journal <i class="">Gender and Language.</i> The winner will also have a chance to work with the publishers of the journal to develop the paper into a published article. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">For other questions concerning the award, please contact <<a href="mailto:IGALA9paperprize@gmail.com" class="">IGALA9paperprize@gmail.com</a>>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">International Gender and Language Association (IGALA): <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><a href="http://igalaweb.wix.com/igala" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">http://igalaweb.wix.com/igala</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Facebook<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InternationalGenderandLanguageAssociationIGALA?fref=ts" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">https://www.facebook.com/InternationalGenderandLanguageAssociationIGALA?fref=ts</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">9th International Gender and Language Association Conference (IGALA 9):<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/en/portal/igala/" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">http://www.english.cityu.ed</span></a></span></body></html>