IGALA office (VP, Sec) nominations

[Victoria L. Bergvall]

Dear IGALA members (and those wishing to become members soon!),

I'd like to reiterate the invitation below from our wonderful secretary, Ana, that we are looking for dynamic, experienced gender and language researchers to serve as our Secretary (2008-2010) and Vice-President/President-Elect (VP from Nov. 2008-2010, President from 2010-12). 

These are very important positions that help serve as the face of IGALA to the academic world, and we are very interested in finding those who would be willing to be our advocates as well as leaders. 

Again: you must be a member to act as an officer, and a member to vote in the coming elections. (If you are not a member yet [why not?], see the directions in Ana's message about how to join.)

If you are interested in serving, please let another IGALA member know, so that they can nominate you (or let me or Ana know). Please do NOT respond to the list directly, but to  Ana Cristina Ostermann @ <aco3 at terra.com.br> or me at <vbergval at mtu.edu>

If you have questions about what the positions entail, see details in Ana's note below or contact her or me. 

I'm looking forward to talking with you!

Vicky

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Victoria L. Bergvall
President, International Gender & Language Association (IGALA)
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department of Humanities
Michigan Tech University

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Ana Cristina Ostermann" <aco3 at terra.com.br>
To: "vbergval" <vbergval at mtu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:12:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: announcement for GALA-L list


Dear IGALA members,

We would like to invite nominations for the following IGALA positions:

1. Vice President/President-Elect
2. Secretary

(Job descriptions are included below.)

Both 'nominators' and candidates must be paid-up members of IGALA. In accordance with the IGALA Bylaws,
self-nominations are *not* allowed. Of course, anyone interested in standing can explain to a colleague
(anywhere in the world) who is also an IGALA member why they would be a good person to be nominated for one of
these positions.

I will be responsible for contacting all nominees to determine whether they are willing to stand. Please
address all responses to me <aco at unisinos.br> rather than to the entire list. The nomination period will close
on Oct 15, 2008.

We take this opportunity to encourage and welcome new IGALA members! The IGALA membership form is available at
<http://www.equinoxpub.com/downloads/igalamember.pdf>;;; and should be sent directly to Equinox (contacts can be
obtained on the form). Information about IGALA can be found at
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.htm>;;;.

Best,
Vicky Bergvall, IGALA President
Ana Cristina Ostermann, IGALA Secretary

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Job Descriptions

1. Vice-President (President-elect)

The Vice-President is responsible for

•   supporting the President as appropriate in all the above
•   assuming the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and succeeding to the office
of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect
•   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and Secretary)
•   chairing the Nominations Committee for Advisory and Executive IGALA committee members
•   running the IGALA (Post)graduate Student Essay Competition (including chairing the committee, one member of
whom will be the Graduate Student Representative)
*The Vice-President is also strongly encouraged to attend the IGALA International conferences.


2. Secretary

The Secretary is responsible for

•   gathering agenda items for meetings
•   producing and distributing agendas
•   keeping Minutes of IGALA Executive and Open meetings
•   maintaining records of meetings and decisions
•   producing and distributing/posting Minutes of the meetings to the IGALA Membership
•   in conjunction with the Vice President/President-elect, organising elections and distributing/posting
results to the IGALA membership
•   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and President-elect)
*The Secretary is also strongly encouraged to attend the IGALA International conferences.