<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Announcing *</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IGALA 11 Best Graduate Student Paper Award* </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Submission Deadline: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">March 31st, 2020</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) is calling for *language and gender* outstanding graduate student papers. The theme of the IGALA 11 2020 conference is </span><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Language and the Geopolitics of Gender. </b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Transnational discourses of gender and sexuality</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Language, gender and sexuality in conflict/war zones</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Gender, language and human migration</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Gender, language and sexuality in borderless communities</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Language and body politics in the new media</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Language, alternative sexualities and social media</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>New/ social media, democracy, sexual and gender politics</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Gender, sexuality and religious/cultural diversity</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Language, gender, sexuality and youth cultures</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Language, gender and sexuality and indigenous cultures</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Gender, sexuality and the discourse of human trafficking</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Submissions should be 6,000- 8,000 words in length, in .pdf 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Submissions should be emailed as an attachment to: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="mailto:racheliw@umich.edu" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">racheliw@umich.edu</font></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Submissions must be received by March 31st 2020</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Awards will be presented at the IGALA 11 Conference, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">June 29th – July 2nd, 2020</a> at the Queen Mary University of London. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The winner will receive a two year subscription to IGALA which includes a subscription to the journal <i>Gender and Language.</i>The winner will also have a chance to work with the editors of the journal to develop the paper into a published article. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For other questions concerning the award, please contact Rachel Elizabeth Weissler, IGALA graduate student representative: <a href="mailto:racheliw@umich.edu">racheliw@umich.edu</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">International Gender and Language Association (IGALA): </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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