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<div>Dear members of IGALA</div>
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<div>We are pleased to announce that the proposed amendments to the IGALA bylaws have passed by members:</div>
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<div>1. Amendments to Articles VI and XIII clarifying responsibility for calling, running, and announcing results of elections - 97% YES</div>
<div>2. Amendment to Article XII clarifying that current members may run for election again to the same role - 97% YES</div>
<div>3. Amendment to Article XV to replace Equinox with University of Toronto Press - UNANIMOUS</div>
<div>4. Amendment to Article VII to clarify responsibility for the Conference Handbook - UNANMOUS</div>
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<div>Thank you to all of you who participated in the recent ballot!</div>
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<div>Please find a copy of the bylaws attached for your records.</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Scott (on behalf of Executive Committee)<br>
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<div>___________________________<br>
Scott Burnett (he/him)<br>
Assistant Professor of <a href="https://africanstudies.la.psu.edu/directory/skb6434/">African Studies</a> and <a href="https://wgss.la.psu.edu/people/skb6434/">Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a></div>
<div>The Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>Research Associate, <a href="https://www.wits.ac.za/wicds/">Wits Centre for Diversity Studies</a>, University of the Witwatersrand</div>
<div>scott.burnett@psu.edu</div>
<div>Sparks 015H</div>
<div>Investigator: <a href="https://sites.psu.edu/birthingthenation/">Birthing the Nation</a></div>
<div>Secretary: <a href="https://igalaweb.wixsite.com/igala">IGALA</a></div>
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Publications: <a href="https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=mmPM2PEAAAAJ&hl=en">Google Scholar</a></div>
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The Pennsylvania State University campuses are located on the original homelands of the Erie, Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), Lenape (Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe, Stockbridge-Munsee), Monongahela, Shawnee (Absentee,
 Eastern, and Oklahoma), Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nations. As a land grant institution, we acknowledge and honor the traditional caretakers of these lands and strive to understand and model their responsible stewardship. We also acknowledge the longer
 history of these lands and our place in that history.</div>
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