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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:24pt">Language and
Migration:</span></b><b><span style="color:red"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:24pt">Experience and
Memory<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt">Monday, April
19—Saturday, May 1, 2021</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><br><b><span style="font-size:18pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-align:center"><a href="https://migration.princeton.edu/symposium" target="_blank"><span><span> https://migration.princeton.edu/symposium</span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-align:center"><span><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-align:center"><span><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span id="m_-1567753306011075256goog_278106675"></span>**<a href="https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GNf33xbFR1O9wdsn38Hk6Q" target="_blank">Free Registration</a></b>**</span><span id="m_-1567753306011075256goog_278106676"></span><br></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This
</span></b><a href="https://migration.princeton.edu/symposium" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">interdisciplinary
symposium</span></a><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> will convene humanists and social scientists,
field-workers and policy-makers, artists and writers, to think together about
migrants as resourceful users, interpreters, and creators of language. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language is a
vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants, immigrants and
refugees. It has a direct impact on the experiences and choices of individuals
displaced by war, terror, or natural disasters and the decisions made by agents
who provide (or fail to provide) relief, services, and status. Distilled
through memory, it shapes the fictions, poems, memoirs, films and song lyrics
in which migrants render loss and displacement, integration and discovery, the
translation of history and culture, and the trials of identity.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The symposium will take place online between
Monday, April 19 and Saturday May 1, 2021. </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Special events:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Our symposium will
feature two keynote speakers: </span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof. Sarah
Dryden-Peterson</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who will open our
exchange with a lecture on Monday April 19; and <b>Prof</b>. </span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Viet Thanh Nguyen</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, Aerol
Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California, and winner
of the Pulitzer Prize for <i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Sympathizer, who will close the proceedings with a lecture on
Saturday, May 1. O</span></i>n Friday evening, April 30, we are delighted to host
a reading by <b>Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li and
Aleksandar Hemon</b>, three distinguished members of Princeton’s Creative
Writing faculty. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">The symposium program </span></b><span style="color:black">can be found </span><a href="https://migration.princeton.edu/symposium/program" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>here</span></a><span style="color:black">. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Registration information</span></b><span style="color:black"> can be found </span><a href="https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GNf33xbFR1O9wdsn38Hk6Q" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>here</span></a><span style="color:black">. There will be one zoom link for the entire conference.
(Panelists and chairs will also receive a special link for their sessions.) <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our primary sponsors</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> are the Migration Lab of the </span><a href="http://piirs.princeton.edu/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, and the </span><a href="https://www.languageandtheun.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Study Group for Language and the United Nations</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">. We’d like
to acknowledge additional support from the Center for Applied Linguistics, the
Esperantic Studies Foundation, the Centre for Research and Documentation on
World Language Problems, and Birkbeck, University of London. At Princeton,
generous support has also come from the Lewis Center, the Humanities Council,
the Department of English, the Department of Comparative Literature, The
Department of African-American Studies, and the University Center for Human
Values.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please direct questions to </span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sam Evans </span></i><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><<a href="mailto:same@princeton.edu" target="_blank">same@princeton.edu</a>></i></span></font><br></p><p style="text-align:center;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><span><span></span></span></p>
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