forward from Sara Mills: IGALA 4 conference Fes, Morocco

[Uri Horesh]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious about the connection between
the war crimes committed by Israel in Palestine and a gender and language
conference in Morocco. Can anyone who is in the know elaborate on this?

Thanks,
Uri

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mary Bucholtz wrote:

> IGALA 4 conference Fes, Morocco
>
> As many of you know, the IGALA4 conference was planned to be held in Fes,
> Morocco in 2006, and the planning for this was at a fairly advanced stage.
> However, unfortunately, we have run into some institutional and political
> difficulties with holding the conference in Fes, due to the continuing
> conflict over Palestine and political sensibilities about this within
> Morocco.  It is for this reason that, very regretfully,  we are having to
> change the venue for the conference and we will send you more information
> about the new location and date in due course.  On behalf of the IGALA
> executive I would like to extend our thanks to Fatima Sadiqi the organiser
> of the conference who has put so much into the planning and organisation of
> this conference so far and we hope that at some stage in the future it will
> be possible to hold the conference in Morocco.
>
>
>
> Prof. Sara Mills, English, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate
> Crescent, S10 2BP; tel: 0114-225-2257; e.mail: s.l.mills at shu.ac.uk
>
> Linguistic Politeness Research Group: http://politeness.lboro.ac.uk
> Journal of Politeness Research: http://politeness.lboro.ac.uk
> Working Papers on the Web: www.shu.ac.uk/wpw
> Discourse Analysis On-Line: www.shu.ac.uk/daol
> International Gender and Language Association:
> http://www.stanford.edu/group/igala
>
>
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