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<b>Travel Bursaries to IGALA13 for Scholars from Low-and-Middle-income countries</b></div>
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Please submit all required material by 5pm Thursday, June 30, 2025 (EST).</div>
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<b>The International Gender and Language Association</b> (IGALA) is pleased to be able to offer a limited number of travel bursaries for scholars from Low-and-Middle-income countries attending and presenting a paper at the IGALA13 conference in Montevideo, Uruguay,
July 23-25, 2025.</div>
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<b>Selection policy</b>: Bursaries will be determined based on the conference abstract, the applicant’s potential benefit from attending, and financial need. Preference will be given to participants from economically disadvantaged countries and to participants
who demonstrate creativity in meeting much of the cost from other sources. A limited number of bursaries will be available to scholars who cannot attract funding support from their own institutions or networks.</div>
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<b>Selection Process</b>: Applicants should submit the following items to the president of IGALA: Denise Troutman (troutma1@msu.edu).</div>
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A statement of the amount requested and a detailed budget (e.g., airfare and accommodation).</li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">
A short statement from an academic supervisor or head of department to explain why the applicant would benefit from attending the conference, and why the applicant’s institution and/or country of residence is not able to provide funding to attend the conference.</li></ul>
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<b>Note</b>: Individuals who are not affiliated with an academic institution at the time of application may submit a short statement explaining their funding situation and outlining how they may benefit from attending the conference. Applications written in
English, Spanish, <b>or</b> Portuguese are acceptable for submissions.</div>
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<b>Due Date</b>: Applications for travel bursaries for IGALA13 must be received by 5pm, June 30, 2025 (EST). </div>
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<b>Notification</b>: A committee drawn from IGALA executive members will assess the application and will notify successful applicants as soon as possible after receiving the application.</div>
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<b>Receipt stipulation</b>: Successful applicants are required to submit all receipts to the application committee upon attending the conference. Travel bursaries will be distributed by the IGALA13 Conference Organizing Committee.</div>
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<b>Summary of main criteria</b>:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>1) The applicant’s abstract as relevant to the conference theme
</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>[<a href="https://igala2025.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1st.-call-for-papers.pdf" id="LPlnk316662" class="OWAAutoLink">https://igala2025.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1st.-call-for-papers.pdf</a>]
</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>and/or relevance to IGALA’s aims </i>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>[see IGALA’s website: <a href="https://igalaweb.wixsite.com/igala/about" id="LPlnk565043" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://igalaweb.wixsite.com/igala/about</a>]</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>.</i></span></div>
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<i>2) Evidence of benefit from attendance as provided by referee.</i></div>
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<i>3) Evidence of inadequate level of financial support as provided by referee.</i></div>
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Denise </div>
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Denise Troutman, Ph.D.</div>
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President, International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)</div>
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Michigan State University</div>
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Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures<br>
Department of Linguistics</div>
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troutma1@msu.edu</div>
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Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of YAHWEH ELOHIM, and JESUS our LORD. 2 Peter 1:2 This is my perspective. Hope you share yours.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><u>Please note:</u> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">I am not always immediately able or available to respond to emails; thus, my responses, at times, will be delayed. Additionally, I am typically away from my email
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">after 9 pm Monday through Friday and on weekends</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Please
note that emails sent outside of these times may not be immediately addressed.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><u>Land Acknowledgment:</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: normal;">Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples.
In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;"><u>Labor Acknowledgment:</u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;">The United States resides on Native Land and was built on the backs of kidnapped and enslaved Africans.</span></div>
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