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Symposium: Language and Exclusion

The Study Group on Language at the United Nations, in cooperation with the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, invites you to contribute to a symposium on “language and exclusion” on Thursday, May 7, 2015, at the Church Center (777 United Nations Plaza) from 9:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The organizers welcome proposals for brief 20-minute papers on topics such as the following:

Language policy in international organizations
Language parity in international settings
Language use at, and by, the United Nations
Language as a factor in sustainable development
Language and human rights
Discrimination on grounds of language
Language and the post-2015 development agenda
The role of language in international peacekeeping
Language and globalization
Language and minority rights
Mother-tongue education
NGOs and language policy

Please send proposals (200 words or less) to the chair of the symposium organizing committee, Prof. Humphrey Tonkin, at tonkin@hartford.edu, by February 13, 2015. The committee expects to make final decisions on the program by March 1.