International Gender and Language Association Conference (2025)
Short Title: IGALA 13

Date: 23-Jul-2025 - 25-Jul-2025
Location: Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Contact: Victoria Furtado
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://igala2025.wordpress.com

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

Founded in 1999, IGALA is the premiere international scholarly organization committed to the promotion and support of research on language, gender, and sexuality. The theme of IGALA 13 (2025) is: Re- thinking (g)local genders, sexualities, and activisms. We aim to foster a critical examination of the current political, ideological, social, and cultural tensions between local, regional, and global understandings of genders and sexualities -and their intersection with other social categories such as race, social class, age, etc.

Our goal is to showcase research on language, gender, and sexuality from a diverse range of cultural, linguistic, and geographical contexts, in particular work that engages with issues of individual/collective/institutional power dynamics and agency in the situated representation, construction, and negotiation of gender and sexuality and their connection to language and, more broadly, semiosis. We also wish to encourage theoretical, empirical, and methodological discussions on the past, present, and future of the field.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dr. Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK)
Dr. Lexi Webster (University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Glenda Melo (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Important dates:
Proposal submissions - from May 20th to July 15th 2024
Notification of acceptance - October 2024
Registration period - starts in October 2024
Conference dates - July, 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2025.