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 hopes to bring together scholars from the most diverse fields of knowledge and geographical regions interested in broadening and deepening our understanding of the complex relationship between language, gender and sexuality and in adding new layers of meanings to it; in other words, interested in "resignifying it."

The following thematic areas will be highlighted:

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

Organizing Committee 

Conference Chair: Ana Cristina Ostermann, UNISINOS, Brazil

Alexandre do Nascimento Almeida, UFCSPA, Brazil
Aline Winter Sudbrack, UFCSPA, Brazil
Ana Maria de Mattos Guimarães, UNISINOS, Brazil
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, University of Birmingham, UK
Cristiane Maria Schnack, UNISINOS, Brazil
Daniela Andrade, UNISINOS, Brazil
Janine Trevisan, PUCRS, Brazil
Joseane de Souza, UNISINOS, Brazil
Marcia del Corona, UNISINOS, Brazil
Mariléia Sell, UNISINOS, Brazil
Sílvio Cazella, UNISINOS/UFCSPA, Brazil