International Gender and Language Association

The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), is an international interdisciplinary academic organisation that promotes and supports research on language, gender, and sexuality.^[1]

The association was formed in 1999, having developed out of the graduate-student-run 'Women and Language' group at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] IGALA holds a biannual conference.^[2] The society's official academic journal is Gender and Language, launched in 2007 by Equinox Press and now published by University of Toronto Press.^[3][4] IGALA also publishes volumes of selected proceedings.^[5] Together these projects have helped shepherd in the expansion of language, gender and sexuality studies into a wider set of topics from a wider range of regions than before, expanding beyond the earlier focus on English speakers that dominated work of earlier decades.^[6]

• IGALA 1 – Stanford University, Stanford, California, May 5–7, 2000
• IGALA 2 – Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, United Kingdom, April 12–14, 2002
• IGALA 3 – Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, June 5–7, 2004
• IGALA 4 – University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, November 8–10, 2006
• IGALA 5 – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, July 3–5, 2008
• IGALA 6 – Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan, September 18–20, 2010
• IGALA 7 – Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil, June 20–22, 2012
• IGALA 8 – Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, June 5–7, 2014
• IGALA 9 – City University of Hong Kong, May 19–21, 2016^[7][8]
• IGALA 10 – University of Botswana, 20–22 June 2018^[2]
• IGALA 11 – Queen Mary University of London, 22–24 June 2021^[9]
• IGALA 12 – University of Queensland, 4-6 July 2023^[2]
• IGALA 13 – Universidad de la República de Uruguay, 23-25 July 2025^[2]

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