IGALA 3 Program on line

[Tanya L. Matthews]

The program for IGALA3, the third biennial conference of the International Gender
and Language Association being held at Cornell University 5-7 June, has just been
posted at http:/ling.cornell.edu/igala3.  In addition to plenary addresses from
Deborah Cameron, Norma Mendoza-Denton, and Niko Besnier, there is a plenary
panel, "Studying Language and Gender: International Perspectives," that is
moderated by Keith Walters (US) and includes talks from Ana María Martirena
(Argentina), Momoko Nakamura (Japan), Binh Nguyen (Vietnam), and Fatima Sadiqi
(Morocco).  And there are 40 oral presentations (presented in two parallel sessions)
and 50 poster-based presentations that were accepted on the basis of refereed
abstracts.   Topics cover a wide range of issues in the general area of language,
gender, and sexuality studies, and presenters come not only from the US and
Canada and other English-speaking countries (the UK, Australia, New Zealand) but
also from many other places (the list includes at least France, The Netherlands,
Belgium, Estonia, Russia, Cameroon, Lebanon, South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia).
Presentations begin at 9:30 on Saturday, 5 June, and conclude at 12:55  on
Monday, 7 June.  Post-conference workshops will be held 7 June, 2:15-5:15 pm.
The workshop on teaching language and gender is facilitated by Janet Holmes and
Marisol del Teso Craviotto, that on research ethics is facilitated by Penelope Eckert
and Tanya Matthews, and that on phonetic research is facilitated by Lisa Lavoie and
Rob Podesva.  Full descriptions of the workshops will be posted online very soon,
and we have already begun registering people who have expressed interest in
them.  
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