***IGALA nominations (REMINDER)***

[Ana Cristina Ostermann]

Dear IGALA members,
 
We would like to encourage you to nominate gender and language scholars
to run for the positions of Vice-President//President Elect and
Secretary. If you are interested in serving this exciting international
association yourself in any of these positions, do not hesitate to
nominate yourself, as self-nominations are also welcome.
 
We will be collecting proposals until November 15. 
 
In order nominate:

*Include: your name, nominee*s name, position nominated for, and
nominee*s e-mail address.
*Do NOT click *reply all*. 
* Send your nomination to Laurel Kamada at laurelkamada at hotmail.com
 
Detailed information on the IGALA nomination process and
responsibilities for each position can be found below.
 
We are looking forward to receiving your nominations!
 
Best wishes,
Ana Cristina Ostermann, IGALA President
 




IGALA NOMINATIONS OPEN(until 15 Nov)
For two Executive Committee posts: 
Vice-President/President-Elect and Secretary
 
IGALA (International Gender and Language Association) is now calling
for nominations for the posts of:
*Vice-President (President-Elect)    (see duties below)
*Secretary                                                           
(see duties below)
 
CLOSING DATE FOR NOMINATIONS:  
15 November, 2010
 
IMPORTANT STIPULATIONS:
*ONLY paid up members can nominate someone.
*ONLY paid up members can be nominated.
*You may nominate yourself.
 
IN ORDER TO NOMINATE: 
*Include: your name, nominee*s name, position nominated for, and 
nominee*s e-mail address.
*Do NOT click *reply all*. 
Reply to Laurel Kamada at laurelkamada at hotmail.com
 
If you are interested in nominating a person (including yourself) who
is NOT yet an IGALA member, you (and they) have until elections begin
(Nov. 18) to join IGALA. To join IGALA (which includes subscription to
the journal Gender and Language), please go to:
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/index.php/GL/about/subscriptions
 
ELECTIONS will begin after the nomination period is completed:
              Elections will run from 18 November through 18 December,
2010.
 
DUTIES
The Vice-President/President-Elect is responsible for:supporting the
President as appropriate in all the President*s duties 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) post runs for two years

 
The Secretary is responsible forgathering 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) post runs
for two years

 
For your information,Ana Cristina Ostermann recently took over the
duties of President (from her previous role as
Vice-President/President-Elect) and will continue in this post for the
next two years until 2012.
 
The President is responsible for working for a policy that balances the
needs of members with service to gender and language study representing
IGALA and when appropriate and necessary speaking on its behalf,
including in a lobbying capacity working to develop relations between
IGALA and other academic, professional and political bodies, as
appropriate consulting with Executives on issues concerning the
management and running of IGALA and coming to a decision about these
issues on the basis of Executive's wishes ensuring that Executives have
regular e-discussions on issues relating to IGALA ensuring that the
IGALA conference takes place and liaising with the organiser chairing
(a) an Executive meeting, and (b) an Open Business meeting at the IGALA
conference ensuring that decisions that Executives make are followed
through (in conjunction with the Secretary) drawing up the Agenda for
Executive Meetings (in conjunction with the Secretary) and running the
meetings maintaining links with the editors of the Gender and Language
journal 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 Vice-President/President-Elect and Secretary)
post runs for two years

 
Both up-for-election posts (Vice-President/President-Elect and
Secretary) are for a period of two years. (For more information about
IGALA, please see the website: 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html
 
We are looking forward to your nominations! 
Warm regards,
 
Laurel Kamada, IGALA Advisory Board member
Michelle Lazar, IGALA Advisory Board member
Ana Cristina Ostermann, IGALA President
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