Past Events

Gender and Language in the Public Space
The 5th BAAL Gender and Language Special Interest Group Event (GaLSig): Gender and Language in the Public Space was held on Tuesday 20th September 2011 at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Click here for more information.

Gender and Corpus Linguistics
This event was held on Tuesday March 30th 2010 at Lancaster University. Corpus linguistics involves the use of large collections of naturally occurring texts, encoded in electronic form so that they can be analysed with the help of computer software to extract linguistic patterns. In recent years, this approach has begun to be utilised by linguists who are interested in analysing issues relating to gender. This BAAL event aims to bring together researchers working in the field, as well as showcasing recent corpus-based gender research, and enabling debate on best practice. Invited speakers included Bandar Al-Hejin (Lancaster), Cinzia Bevitori (Bologna), Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Brona Murphy (Edinburgh), Michael Pearce (Sunderland), Costas Gabrielatos (Lancaster) and Eivind Torgersen (Lancaster). For the powerpoint presentations click here For photos from the event click here

Joint SIG Roundtable Seminar: (Gender and Language; Language in Africa) Language and Gender in African Contexts was held on Saturday November 17th at the Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Click here for more information

Current Issues in the Teaching of Language, Gender and Sexuality in Further and Higher Education One-day Seminar
This event was held at Liverpool Hope University 15th September, 2006.

Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Gender and Language Study This event was held on November 18-19 2005. Click here to download the abstract details and list of participants. The Birmingham conference resulted in a collection entitled 'Language and Gender research Methodologies', edited by Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti, Helen Sauntson and Jane Sunderland (Palgrave, 2008)