The International Gender and Language Group, or IGALA, is an international interdisciplinary organization that promote research on language, gender, and sexuality. The association was formed in 1999, and developed out of the graduate-student-run Berkeley Women and Language Group. IGALA holds a biannual conference and publishes the academic journal Gender and Language.
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
For further information on Igala 7, please visit the website http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/