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Please see below for an event likely of interest to those in or close to the UK, organised by the BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Lucy
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#009BBD">Lucy Jones</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.queerlinglang.wordpress.com/">website</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lucyjones.bsky.social">bsky</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> |
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President of the <a href="https://igalaweb.wixsite.com/igala">International Gender and Language Association</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 'Alexandra Krendel' via BAAL LGaS SIG <baal-lgas-sig@googlegroups.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> 05 March 2026 08:54<br>
<b>Subject:</b> 2026 LGaS SIG event registration now open!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We are very pleased to announce that registration for this year's LGaS SIG event is now open! Please find the link to register here -
<a href="https://go.soton.ac.uk/hv8">https://go.soton.ac.uk/hv8</a>. Thank you so much for your patience with this process - given that the event is taking place on 10<sup>th</sup> April, what would usually be the early bird rate is the default rate for our
event. Please do share this far and wide!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Please also find in this email the provisional talks and the timings for the day -
</span><span class="entitydelimiterbefore"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"></span></span><span class="entity"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://sotonac-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/ask1c23_soton_ac_uk/IQCHDGBesnbeTJcS38bLzBgVAY7YDvpQS4a2OSBF2sk65gc?e=q7uyLt"><span class="MsoSmartlink"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="18" height="18" style="width:.1916in;height:.1916in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/assets/fluentui-resources/1.1.0/app-min/assets/item-types/24/docx.png"></span></span><span class="MsoSmartlink">LGaS
SIG 2026 event schedule.docx</span></a></span></span><span class="entitydelimiterafter"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> - please check this link to see updates
to the keynote titles in due course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lecturer in Applied Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Building 65, Avenue Campus, Room 3077<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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