IGALA 3 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

[Sally McConnell-Ginet]

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IGALA 3 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED

The third biennial conference of the International Gender and
Language Association will be held 5-7 June, 2004 at Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

The conference will open Saturday morning, 5 June, with a plenary
presentation on media issues by Deborah Cameron, newly elected
Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford
University.  Two other individual plenary presentations are scheduled.
Professor Norma Mendoza-Denton of the University of Arizona will
speak about adolescents and adolescence, and Professor Niko
Besnier, currently visiting at UCLA, will give the final individual plenary
on issues of globalization.

To emphasize the I in IGALA, there will also be a plenary panel
featuring distinguished international language and gender scholars.
Confirmed panelists at present are Professor Momoko Nakamura of
Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan and Professor Fatima
Sadiqi of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fes, Morocco.  The
panel will be chaired by Professor Keith Walters of the University of
Texas.

The conference will include an extensive poster session as well as
oral presentations selected on the basis of abstracts submitted for
receipt by 15 January, 2004.  Contributions are strongly encouraged
on any aspect of the interaction of language with gender and/or
sexuality, and we welcome contributors from anywhere in the world.
The conference closes at lunchtime, Monday, 7 June, 2004, but there
will be several post-conference participatory workshops scheduled
the afternoon of 7 June.  Ithaca is located in the beautiful Finger Lakes
region of central New York State, a pleasant locale for those who
might want to combine a trip to the conference with vacationing.
Further information is available at www.linguistics.cornell.edu/igala3/.
The Call for Abstracts appears there as well as below.

Call for Abstracts

The International Gender and Language Association invites abstracts
for IGALA 3, to be held 5-7 June, 2004.  We seek presentations that
deal with language in relation to gender and/or sexuality.
Presentations will be in the form of 20-minute papers (followed by
5-minute discussion period) or posters (presented during plenary
session with presenters available for discussion). All presenters,
whether of 20 minute talks or posters, will be listed in the program,
and all accepted abstracts will appear in the program abstract booklet.
There will be limited time for oral presentations and posters are
strongly encouraged. Guidelines for Abstracts, Guidelines for
20-minute Papers, and Guidelines for Posters are posted on the
conference website, www.linguistics.cornell.edu/igala3/.

The conference is interdisciplinary, and we invite work on diverse
languages from a variety of fields, including not only linguistics but
also such fields as anthropology, education, feminist studies,
philosophy, queer studies, and sociology.  The conference is also
international, and we especially encourage submissions from
scholars living or working outside North America and western Europe.
Each person may submit at most one individual and one jointly
authored abstract. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed.

Submissions should consist of the following:

<sum> Name(s) of author(s) (should not appear in text of the abstract)
<sum> Author affiliation(s), email, phone number, mailing address
<sum> Indication of whether the presentation is to be considered as an oral
paper, a poster, or either
<sum> Equipment requests (e.g., overhead, TV/VCR, CD/cassette
play—request only what you are sure is needed and contact
organizers if you have additional needs)
<sum> Two empty spaces
<sum> Title
<sum> Up to 3 key words identifying subject matter of the presentation (e.g.,
variation, adolescence, profanity)
<sum> Abstract text (no longer than 500 words, include precise word count)

Abstracts should present clearly and specifically the main points to be
made in the presentation.  No more than one individually authored
presentation and one co-authored presentation may be submitted by
the same person.

Please submit your abstract as a regular, single email message and
do not send any attachments or use any special formatting.  See
Guidelines for Abstracts at http://ling.cornell.edu/igala3/.  Email
abstracts to igala3 at cornell.edu. If you do not receive email
confirmation within 2 days of emailing your submission, please
resend. Faxed abstracts will not be accepted. If you do not have
access to email, please send a  message to the address below for
alternative submission instructions.

IGALA 3
Department of Linguistics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 15 January, 2004
Notification: 28 February, 2004