Welcome to IGALA 7!

Welcome to the 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference (IGALA 7) website! IGALA 7 will be held at Universidade do Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil, on June 20-22, 2012. Taking place for the first time in South America, the conference will provide researchers worldwide with an opportunity to present their work and share ideas in the fields of language, gender, and sexuality. With the theme *Resignifying Gender and Sexuality in Language and Discourse*, IGALA 7 aims to bring together scholars from diverse fields of knowledge as well as geographical regions who are interested in broadening and deepening our understanding of the complex relationships among language, gender and sexuality. In so doing, we encourage new ways of signifying these concepts and their interrelationships, in the following thematic areas: 1. Gender, sexuality, body and identities 2. Gender, sexuality and health 3. Gendered performances as discourse 4. Gender and (dis)empowerment 5. Gender, class, ethnicity and age 6. Gender, sexuality and institutions 7. Gender, media and technology 8. Gender and violence 9. Gender studies in (applied) linguistics 10. Gender and sexuality in literature Guest Speakers Celia Kitzinger (University of York, UK) Guacira Lopes Louro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira (Brazilian Minister for Women's Affairs) - to be confirmed Jussara Reis Prá (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Kira Hall (University of Colorado, USA) Lilian Krakowski Chazan (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro; Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos, Brazil) Liliana Cabral Bastos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Maria Izabel Magalhães (Universidade de Brasília; Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil) Mary Bucholtz (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) IGALA 7 will include the following presentation formats: Plenaries (Guest Speakers), Special Forums (Guest Speakers), Oral Presentations, Round Tables, Workshops, and Posters. Informations: http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/index.php/igala/IGALA7