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[Chris Beckwith]

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Chris Beckwith

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Trechter, Sara wrote:

> the unenclosed version:
>
> Minutes of IGALA E-meeting (August-September 2000) and update.
> Participating:
> Executive Committee: Penny Eckert, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Vicky Bergvall,
> Sara Trechter
> Advisory Council: Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall, Anna Livia, Bonnie McElhinny,
> Ingrid Piller, Yukako Sunaoshi
>
> 1.  Journal and Communications.  The feasibility of a journal for language
> and gender was addressed again.  The advantages and disadvantages of
> electronic versus paper journals were discussed:  1) Hard copy potentially
> has more prestige for the authors and respect for the journal  2) electronic
> journals allow for greater international accessibility. 3)  A combination of
> both, electronic for working papers and  with the hard copy coming out less
> often. 4) Recommended also were different journal formats with the inclusion
> of more than the typical academic article (teaching, reviews of films,
> reviews of articles in related disciplines, etc).  There was a
> recommendation to form a communications committee to consider communications
> as a part of a strategy to (a) create an intellectual community, (b) get
> ideas out in a visible place, and (c) create status for the field. It would
> also consider the journal question in detail. The committee members are
> (EC/AC members Victoria Bergvall, Penny Eckert, Mary Bucholtz, Ingrid
> Piller, Anna Livia, and IGALA members Sara Mills and Jane Sunderland).
>
> 2. Conference. After discussion the combined committees decided to hold the
> conference bi-annually.  In an effort to reach an international audience,
> the next conference (2002) will be held outside of the United States.  The
> 2002 conference will be held at the University of Lancaster, UK and the 2004
> conference is tentatively scheduled for Cornell University, US.
>
> 3.  Advisory Council Appointments. In its appointments, IGALA tried to
> address concerns about the need for increased internationality in
> organization leadership.  Discussion also favored appointments to the slots
> (when possible) to people who have careers outside of academy because they
> could potentially bring more diverse experience and representation to the
> organization. The appointments to the Advisory Council are:
>
> Student 			Catherine Sangster (Oxford University)
> Queer/sexuality in langauge 	Birch Moonwomon Baird(California State
> University, Sonoma)
> Outside of academy representative	 (Suzette Haden Elgin, linguist and
> author of Native Tongue, etc.)
> Feminist 			Fatima Sadiqi (University of Fes, Morocco)
> Minority Language Rep.	Barbara LeMaster (California State University, Long
> Beach)
> Outside of US, UK, etc	as yet unfilled (potential candidates asked to
> contact strechter at csuchico.edu <mailto:strechter at csuchico.edu> for
> information
>
> The Advisory Council will meet and elect a representative to the Executive
> Committee.
>
> 4. Materials and Account Transfer.  Penny Eckert has moved all Berkeley
> Women and Language Group materials from Berkeley to Stanford.  Previous
> proceedings volumes and accounts were transferred to IGALA through the help
> of the graduate students at Stanford and Suzanne Wertheim at Berkeley.
> Devyani Sharma and Penny Eckert are constructing an IGALA webpage at
> Stanford.
>
> Until it is up and running send orders for previous BWLC proceedings to
> igla at csli.stanford.edu <mailto:igla at csli.stanford.edu> or mail to: IGLA,
> Department of Linguistics, Stanford Univeristy, Stanford, CA 94305-2150
>
> 5. Thank yous.  It was agreed that thank you letters should be sent out by
> Penny Eckert on behalf of Megan Crowhurst to her dean and chair and to
> Suzanne Wertheim. The letters recognize their work in the formation of IGALA
> and transition from the Berkeley Women and Language Group to IGALA,
> respectively.
>
> 6.  IGALA at Summer Institute in U.S. Mary Bucholtz, Robin Queen, and Miriam
> Meyeroff will organize an IGALA event at the Linguistics Summer Institute in
> Michigan 2003.
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Sara Trechter, Asst Professor
> English/Linguistics, CSU, Chico
> Chico, CA 95929-0830
> (530) 898-5447 (office)
> (530) 898-4450 (fax)
> strechter at csuchico.edu
>
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