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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=2
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<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Aston Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into
Language and Diversity (InterLanD)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>School of Languages and Social Sciences,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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and <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Institute for the Study of Language and Society <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>present the following symposium: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Media Discourses and Diversity: Classifications,
Exclusions and Biases cross Languages and Cultures <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>13<sup>th</sup> May 2009 3.15pm G11 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Main</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Speakers: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor Teun Van Dijk, University Pompeu Fabra, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>;
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr Peter White, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Adelaide</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr Carmen Rosas-Coulthard, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">University of Birmingham</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr Urszula Clark (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Aston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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