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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Study Group on Language and the United Nations</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 22pt;">Multilingualism in International Organizations and International Co-operation</span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on Thursday & Friday, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">May 10-11, 2018</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">at the Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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</span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Multilingualism in international co-operation entails both costs and benefits:
<i>costs</i> because it requires mechanisms such as the selection of multilingual staff and the mediation of language professionals;
<i>benefits </i>because, if properly managed, it includes all parties to decision-making, promotes consensus, supports programme delivery, and aids dissemination of results. Thus it favours social justice and inclusion. Increasingly, multilingualism is seen
as a positive force, though it is not always recognized as such by all stakeholders.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Within the United Nations, for example, owing in particular to the scarcity of available data, advocates
of multilingual language policies often face ideological, financial and administrative resistance, despite a growing recognition that multilingualism, as a core value of the UN, is a potential source of strength.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This symposium seeks to focus on, and generate interest in, these issues. We invite contributions
addressing the challenges of supporting multilingualism in organizations or in sites of international co-operation across different sectors (e.g. business, diplomacy, economics) or communities. Theoretical and methodological studies are welcome, as well as
those addressing specific practical challenges – especially papers that focus directly on the work of the UN system or other international bodies, or research having obvious implications for their work.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Suggested themes:</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">evolving perceptions of multilingualism in international settings</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">interpretation and translation in international organizations</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">speed of decision-making vs. information loss in monolingual contexts</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">inclusive communication in local and international development</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;">multilingualism and NGOs</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The organizers welcome proposals for brief 20-minute papers on topics linked to the symposium themes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please send proposals (200 words or less) to Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (l.atalianis@bbk.ac.uk), by February 16th, 2018. The committee expects to make final
decisions on the program by March 5<sup>th</sup>, 2018.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p>
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