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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Language Policy: Theory, Method, and Advocacy for Contemporary Geopolitics</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">a symposium at the</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">International Association of Applied Linguistics/</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">World Congress</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">August 9-14 2020</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Groningen, the Netherlands</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">***Call for Abstracts***</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Submission Deadline: September 16, 2019</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Language Policy Research Network (LPReN), a </span><a href="https://aila.info/research/list-of-rens/overview-of-rens/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Research
Network</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> affiliated with the </span><a href="https://aila.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Association Internationale de Linguistique
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font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> or International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), is inviting submissions for its symposium at the 2020 AILA World Congress to be held August 9-14 in Groningen, the Netherlands.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">LPReN intends to host three half-day sessions,
<span style="color:black">organized around three areas within the broader field of scholarship relevant to language policy, politics, and planning: Theory, Method, and Advocacy. Foci include, but are not limited to, reconceptualizing global innovations in language
policy and planning, employing novel research methodologies in language policy, and promoting language rights to preserve minoritized languages.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Each half-day begins with a talk by a featured speaker.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Submissions for presentations may be made in one of the three areas.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Theory</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Featured Speaker:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lionel Wee, National University of Singapore</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topics for submissions to the Theory session may include: Exploration of the theoretical constructs, origins, potential, and philosophical implications of language policy,
politics, and planning as they relate to the structures, individuals, communities, and societies in which they are undertaken.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Method</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Featured Speaker:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topics for submissions to the Method session may include: Identification and explication of the means through which language policymaking, management, and planning take shape,
including identification of the particular overt and covert activities, parties, and institutions that constitute methods employed to burden, obstruct, or facilitate the implementation of policy. Also, critical examination of research methods for investigating
language policy texts and practices including issues of ethics and research design in language policy research.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advocacy</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Featured Speaker:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nkonko Kamwangamalu, Howard University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topics for submissions to the Advocacy session may include: Engagement with of the role of power, elitism, prejudice, privilege, exclusivity, and hegemony in acts associated
with language policy; engagement in activities to expose majoritarian narratives and highlight language rights, promote heritage language maintenance and prosperity, and resolve conflicts among language communities and in organizations.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How to Submit</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The call for papers for the World Congress of Applied Linguistics has now been posted and is available </span><a href="https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: </span><a href="https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The 2020 Congress is organized a bit differently than previous meetings. Rather than submitting to a general call, presenters should submit to <b><i>a particular symposium</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The list of symposia is </span><a href="https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?Uf7d080c8-98a4-48ad-b7f4-0c302630dd35" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: </span><a href="https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?Uf7d080c8-98a4-48ad-b7f4-0c302630dd35" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?Uf7d080c8-98a4-48ad-b7f4-0c302630dd35#</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Proposals for this LPReN symposium should be made to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Symposium 138, Language Policy: Theory, Method, and Advocacy for Contemporary Geopolitics</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All submissions are peer reviewed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Presenters at the AILA World Congress, including the LPReN symposium, are responsible for their own travel and lodging costs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Final Submission Deadline: September 16, 2020</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">LPReN Symposium Co-organizers
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sarah C.K. Moore, David Cassels Johnson, and Francis M. Hult</span></p>
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