From Lucy.Jones at nottingham.ac.uk  Thu Mar  5 13:14:18 2026
From: Lucy.Jones at nottingham.ac.uk (Lucy Jones (staff))
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 13:14:18 +0000
Subject: [IGALA] FW: 2026 LGaS SIG event registration now open!
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Dear IGALA members,

Please see below for an event likely of interest to those in or close to the UK, organised by the BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG.

Best wishes,
Lucy

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From: 'Alexandra Krendel' via BAAL LGaS SIG <baal-lgas-sig at googlegroups.com>
Sent: 05 March 2026 08:54
Subject: 2026 LGaS SIG event registration now open!

Good morning colleagues,

We hope that you are well and enjoying at least a little bit of sunshine.

We are very pleased to announce that registration for this year's LGaS SIG event is now open! Please find the link to register here - https://go.soton.ac.uk/hv8. Thank you so much for your patience with this process - given that the event is taking place on 10th April, what would usually be the early bird rate is the default rate for our event. Please do share this far and wide!

Please also find in this email the provisional talks and the timings for the day - ?[https://res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/assets/fluentui-resources/1.1.0/app-min/assets/item-types/24/docx.png]LGaS SIG 2026 event schedule.docx<https://sotonac-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/ask1c23_soton_ac_uk/IQCHDGBesnbeTJcS38bLzBgVAY7YDvpQS4a2OSBF2sk65gc?e=q7uyLt>? - please check this link to see updates to the keynote titles in due course.

We look forward to welcoming you to Avenue Campus in April!

All the best,
Alex and Lexi


Dr Alexandra Krendel

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics | Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Building 65, Avenue Campus, Room 3077

Highfield Road | Southampton| SO17 1BF
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From bwking at hku.hk  Thu Mar  5 04:24:21 2026
From: bwking at hku.hk (Brian Walter King)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 04:24:21 +0000
Subject: [IGALA] Call for Chapters - Sex, Gender and Biopolitics
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Hello everyone. I would like to make you aware of the recent call for chapters for a proposaed edited volume of mine. The information follows.

Sincerely,

Brian King

Edited volume: Sex, gender and biopolitics: Discourses of normativity and governance in everyday life

Series: Proposal will be made to ?Advances in Sociolinguistics? (Bloomsbury)
Editor: Brian W. King (The University of Hong Kong)
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Volume focus
This edited collection explores how language mediates, sustains, and contests the biopolitical governance of sexed and gendered life. Bringing together sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and conversation analysis, and queer/trans and feminist scholarship, the volume asks how linguistic practices, interactional orders, and language ideologies shape contemporary regimes of sex/gender, embodiment, and population management.?
We invite contributions that are:

  *   Grounded in empirical data (e.g. interactional, ethnographic, corpus, archival, policy/medico?legal, digital/multimodal)
  *   Explicitly engage with biopolitics (and related concepts such as governmentality, necropolitics, debility, datafication)
  *   Make a clear sociolinguistic or discourse-analytic contribution (methods, concepts, or theoretical integration)?

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Thematic Foci
Proposed chapters should connect to one or more of the following strands. Topics within the strands are just suggestions, and there is scope for many more:

  1.
Sexuality as a pivot of biopower

  *
Contributions might examine confessional and disclosure genres, sexual 'truth-telling' and institutional authority, or media and public health discourses of sexual respectability, risk, and citizenship.

  1.
Gender as biopolitical apparatus

  *
Relevant work might address the genealogies and circulations of sex/gender lexicons and discourses, administrative and bureaucratic gender categories as instantiated in forms, databases, and surveys, or language policies and debates around pronouns and grammatical gender.

  1.
Reproduction, family, and demographic governance

  *
Chapters in this strand might explore discourses of fertility, population 'crisis', and national futurity, interaction in reproductive health, counselling, consent, and clinical encounters, or public debates over abortion, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and kinship.

  1.
Queer, trans, and intersex biopolitics

  *
This strand welcomes work on naming, pronouns, self-labelling, and legibility in queer, trans, and intersex communities, clinical, medico-legal, and policy discourses on trans and intersex lives, and activist, artistic, and community practices of refusal, reworlding, or escape.

  1.
Race, necropolitics, and datafied sex/gender

  *
Contributions might analyse policing, borders, welfare, and other institutional sites where racialised and gendered subjects are differentially exposed to harm, the role of sex/gender and race in datasets, algorithms, and platforms, or digital platforms as sites of biopolitical sorting and disposability.

 **Work focusing on the Global South, minoritised languages, and under-represented communities is particularly welcome.
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Sociolinguistic orientation
Submissions should use clearly articulated  discourse-analytic methods grounded in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics or critical discourse studies:

  *   Conversation Analysis
  *   Interactional Sociolinguistics
  *   Ethnography
  *   Critical Discourse Analysis
  *   Corpus-based or corpus-assisted discourse studies
  *   Multimodal and digital discourse analysis

Chapters should make explicit how their analytical approach helps theorize biopolitics and its linguistic/discursive mediation.?
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Practical details

  *   Chapter length: maximum 9,000 words (including references)
  *   Language of publication: English

Timeline (provisional):

  *   Abstracts due: 31 March 2026
  *   Notification of decisions: late April 2026
  *   First full drafts due: March 2027
  *   Revised chapters due: later 2027

These dates will be finalised in consultation with contributors and aligned with the schedule agreed with the publisher.
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Abstract submission
Please submit:

  1.  Chapter abstract (250?400 words), outlining:
     *   Empirical context and data
     *   Methods/analytic framework
     *   How the chapter speaks to biopolitics and to at least one of the strands above
  2.  Short author bio (up to 150 words) including affiliation and up to five key publications.

Send submissions and queries to: Brian King (The University of Hong Kong) at bwking at hku.hk<mailto:bwking at hku.hk> with the subject line: ?Chapter proposal ? Sex, Gender and Biopolitics?

I particularly encourage proposals from early?career researchers and scholars from under?represented regions and communities.
All chapters will be peer-reviewed and closely edited to ensure coherence across the volume.
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