IGALA Advisory Council elections: Call for nominations

[Litosseliti, Evangelia]

International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)

Advisory Council elections

There are 8 Advisory Council members' posts (3 year term) coming up for election this autumn: 7 ordinary members and 1 Graduate Student Representative member. Advisory Council elected members work closely with IGALA's Executive Council (together forming the IGALA Executive Committee) and attend committee meetings during IGALA conferences and electronically. They should represent as broad a geographic spectrum as possible (in particular, non-English-dominant countries), a range of gender and language research areas/ priorities, and diverse interests in terms of gender and language policy.

1) Ordinary members take responsibility for a key task (to be agreed at the next committee meeting). To date, such tasks have included liaising with the Association's journal (Gender and Language), organising local
IGALA branches/ events/ book prize, communicating with the media, running elections etc; they may also include supporting members and the Association with conference/ travel grant applications for members to attend IGALA conferences, participating in student bursaries allocation committees, and other tasks that may become necessary as the Association grows.

2) The Graduate Student Representative is responsible for
* bringing issues to IGALA that are of concern and importance to graduate students
* working with other IGALA members and the Executive Committee to make graduate students an active and visible presence within IGALA
* facilitating graduate contributions to and representation at the IGALA conferences and their involvement in other professional activities
* in coordination with the conference organizers and other members of the IGALA executive committee and membership, developing one graduate student workshop at each IGALA conference on a topic or topics relevant to the professional and intellectual development of graduate students and junior academic staff/faculty
* being a member of the committee in charge of the IGALA Graduate Student Essay Competition


Candidates for any of the above posts need to be paid up IGALA members. They may be nominated by any IGALA Member (one nomination per member for each of the two post categories), with the candidate's agreement; candidates may also self-nominate.

Please do not reply to this message.

Nominations for candidates should be sent between 22 August and 23 September to Michelle Lazar, IGALA Secretary (ellmml at nus.edu.sg<mailto:ellmml at nus.edu.sg>), in the form of a short statement giving a brief biography and highlighting the contribution they could make to the IGALA executive committee. Please ensure that your email has the subject header 'IGALA AC Nominations', and that you state clearly where your nomination is for an ordinary member and/or a graduate student representative.

Information on IGALA (including the current committee members, and membership information) can be
found at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html or via the Secretary. In addition to being able to be elected/ involved in the association's activities, being a member of IGALA includes a subscription to the Gender and Language journal, and allows you to submit abstracts and present at IGALA conferences, so we would encourage colleagues and graduate students to become members if not already.

Information on the next IGALA conference (20-22 June 2012) can be found at http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/


We look forward to your nominations.



Lia Litosseliti

IGALA Vice President





Dr Lia Litosseliti
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
UK

l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk
http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/llitosseliti.html

VP/ President Elect of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) -  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html

For the Gender and Language journal (details and subscriptions), see: http://www.equinoxjournals.com/GL/index






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