<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpren@caltalk.cal.org">lpren@caltalk.cal.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM<br><br>Symposium on Languages and Internationalization in Higher Education: Ideologies, Practices, Alternatives in Reykjavik<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A Symposium on <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Languages and Internationalization in Higher Education:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Ideologies, Practices, Alternatives<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18-20, 2013<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (Rotterdam, Netherlands), the sponsor of the journal
<i>Language Problems and Language Planning, </i>organizes occasional invited international symposia on aspects of international language use and language policy. These events (known as Nitobe Symposia, after the well-known Japanese diplomat associated with
the League of Nations in the 1920s) have been held in Prague (1996), Berlin (1999), Beijing (2004), Vilnius (2005), and Tokyo (2007). The Tokyo symposium was held at Sophia University on the topic “Towards Equitable Language Policy in Asia.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We plan to hold a Nitobe Symposium in Reykjavik in July 2013 on the topic<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"Languages and Internationalization in Higher Education: Ideologies, Practices, Alternatives"<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Symposium will consist of papers, presentations and panel discussions by experts from across the world, with particular emphasis on the Nordic countries and on languages of instruction in higher education.
The topic will be linked to the coming publication of the book edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen, and Jacob Thøgersen,
<i>English in Nordic Universities: Ideology and Practice</i>, to be published in the series
<i>Studies in World Language Problems, </i>probably in early 2014, by the publisher John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The symposium will begin on the evening of Thursday, July 17, and end in the early afternoon of Saturday, July 20, 2013.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The symposium is taking place under the auspices of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, and financial support has been received from the Esperantic Studies Foundation and from John Benjamins
Publishing Company. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The symposium organizing committee consists of Mark Fettes (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada), Frans Gregersen (University of Copenhagen), Anna Kristina Hultgren (Open University, UK), Ari Páll Kristinsson
(University of Iceland), Jacob Thøgersen (University of Copenhagen), and Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Participation in the symposium is by invitation. Please contact Humphrey Tonkin at tonkin @ <a href="http://hartford.edu" target="_blank">hartford.edu</a> for further information.
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