<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Bessie Dendrinos</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:vdendrin@enl.uoa.gr">vdendrin@enl.uoa.gr</a>></span><br><br></div><div link="#0563C1" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word" lang="en-GR"><div class="m_6760244103881088362WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Dear colleagues, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">We would like to invite you as guests to the ECSPM Online Symposium (28-29 June 2021) on </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://ecspm.org/symposium-2021/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">Multilingualism in HE in Europe</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">during which the important issue of monolingualism and the role of English in Higher Education (HE), linked to the internationalisation of universities, will be addressed in a critical fashion. Invited speakers with research and academic experiences in Europe and other continents will present their views and research results regarding the monolingual ethos and colonisation of curricular knowledge in HE but will also move beyond critique to constructive proposals. This online event is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism of the University of Konstanz, Germany, as well as by the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) which is funded by the EU.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Attached please find symposium pamphlet, in pdf form (which can also be downloaded from </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://ecspm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ECSPM_2021_Symposium_Pamphlet.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">) containing the programme, abstracts and bios of speakers and discussants. Also, please be informed that you may register now (free of charge) at: <a href="https://www.mehrsprachigkeit.uni-konstanz.de/news-events/ecspm-symposium/" target="_blank">https://www.mehrsprachigkeit.uni-konstanz.de/news-events/ecspm-symposium/</a> You will then receive the Zoom link so you can participate in the Symposium. You’re welcome to share the information with colleagues of yours who you know are interested / have published on the issue.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">As previous ECSPM annual events, this is not a conference based on an open call for papers, but an occasion for reflection and discussion among the invited speakers and the CURUM members, as well as symposium guests, with a view to building on an interdisciplinary project leading to recommendations for practices in European academic institutions and to research-based policies to be submitted to the European Commission and the European Council.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">The ECSPM event will follow the 2021 Conference on Multilingualism (COM2021) organised and hosted by the Centre for Multilingualism of the University of Konstanz 23-25 June 2021. For more information: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=com2021" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=com2021</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">With best wishes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Bessie </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><img style="width:.9583in;height:.4895in" id="m_6760244103881088362Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:17a356224874cff311" alt="signature_760555791" width="92" height="47" border="0"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Bessie Dendrinos, Professor Emeritus National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, | </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:vdendrin@enl.uoa.gr" target="_blank">vdendrin@enl.uoa.gr</a> | +30 6944 905954 & +30 210 7214978 | ECSPM </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">President <a href="http://ecspm.org" target="_blank">http://ecspm.org</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS"> </span></p></div></div>
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