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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Study Group on Language at the United Nations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">in cooperation with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">invites you to contribute to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt">A Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">on Thursday & Friday, April 21 & 22, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">at the Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">First Avenue at 44<sup>th</sup> Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thurs. 1:00-5:00; Fri. 9:15-5:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The 17 Sustainable Development Goals approved by the United Nations General Assembly for the period 2015-2030 (</span><a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">)
replace the eight Millennium Development Goals that covered the period 2000-2015. They aim to engage not only governments, but “all people, everywhere,” at all levels of civil society. Carrying them out will require active, two-way, democratic communication,
in a multiplicity of languages. Furthermore, several of the Goals imply direct attention to issues of language. Study and research on language in relation to economic and social development is a well-established field. What does this field have to contribute
to the realization of the SDGs? What linguistic obstacles stand in the way of their successful realization?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The organizers welcome proposals for brief 20-minute papers on topics linked to the SDGs, such as:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language as a factor in sustainable development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language as a factor in the realization of the SDGs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language revival and maintenance in relation to the SDGs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language and quality education (Goal 4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language and mother-tongue education (Goal 4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language and gender equality (Goal 5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language and economic growth (Goal 8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.95in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language and reduced inequalities (Goal 10)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language and peace & justice (Goal 16)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cooperation in the fulfilment of the SDGs (Goal 17)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">NGOs and language policy in relation to the SDGs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">UN language policy and the SDGs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please send proposals (200 words or less, accompanied by an approximately 50-word biography) to the chair of the symposium organizing committee, Prof. Humphrey Tonkin, at
</span><a href="mailto:tonkin@hartford.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">tonkin@hartford.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, by February 15, 2016. The committee expects to make final decisions on the program by March 1.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Humphrey Tonkin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">President Emeritus & University Professor of the Humanities</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Office: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Mortensen Library, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Tel: +1 860-768-4448 Fax: +1 860-768-4274</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Home: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">279 Ridgewood Road, West Hartford, CT 06107, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Tel: +1 860-561-2669 </span>
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