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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Study Group on Language and the United Nations</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
in cooperation with<br>
<b>The Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> the <b>Center for Applied Linguistics
</b>and<b> Birkbeck, University of London<br>
</b>invites you to a symposium on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Multilingualism in International Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">and in International Co-operation</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">on Thursday & Friday,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 10-11, <span style="color:black">2018</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">at the Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (as of April 4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Speakers will include:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">H.E. Amb. Narjess Saidane, Permanent Observer for the International Organization of La Francophonie to the United Nations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">H.E. Amb. Valentin Rybakov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">H.E. Amb. Michael Ten Pow, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guyana to the United Nations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Carole Maisonneuve, Public Information and Multilingualism Coordination Officer, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, United Nations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Joel Gómez, President and CEO, Center for Applied Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Humphrey Tonkin, Director, Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Michele Gazzola, Research Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><i>The economic effects of language regimes:
</i><i><span style="color:black">The case of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the European Patent Office</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.3in;text-indent:-.3in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Papers and presentations will include:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline">John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University, Canada)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Language claims & language rights<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline">Timothy Reagan (University of Maine, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Sign language multilingualism: The forgotten language diversity in disempowered communities<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Emma Asonye (University of Mexico), Ezinne Emma-Asonye (University of Mexico), Queenette Okwaraji (University of Rochester, USA) and Khadijah Asili (Vizionz-Sankofa)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>Linguistic diversity and the language rights of the underprivileged population in Africa and<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>America: Towards an inclusive society in 2030<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline">Nirvana Bhatia (Linguistic Rights Specialist)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<i>The paper chase: A review of the UN’s recent language-rights legislation<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Phindile Dlamini (University of Swaziland)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Swaziland’s</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">
</span><i>dream of linguistic representation in international organisations: Will the<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>sociolinguistic map of the United Nations ever change?<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maneeratana Sawasdiwat Na Ayutthaya (ASEAN Center for Multilingualism, Translation & Interpretation, Thailand)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>Multilingualism, translation and interpretation in the ASEAN Community<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leigh Swigart (Brandeis University, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>English at the International Criminal Court: Working language or default language?<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beatrice Owiti (Kenya Methodist University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>Interpretation and translation in the International Criminal Court<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), Michele Gazzola and Torsten Templin (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>Measuring diversity in multilingual communication<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Francis M. Hult (Lund University, Sweden)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Parallel language use: A Nordic solution for multilingual organisations?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dorte Lřnsmann (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) & Janus Mortensen (University of Copenhagen)
<span style="color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i>English only? A critical examination of the ‘natural’ status of English as a corporate language<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Spencer Hazel (Newcastle University, UK), Katherine Kappa and Kamilla Kraft (University of Copenhagen)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Language policing in international organisations: Explicit and embedded orientations to<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">language repertoires and their impact on professional identity<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pia Decarsin (JPD Systems Translation Services)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Language policy in international organisations: Criteria and recommendations for strategic content selection for translation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mirna Soares Andrade (Inter-American Defense College, Washington, D.C.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Multilingualism and language services at the Inter-American Defense College<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Shana Pughe Dean (Tone Translate, Utica, NY, USA))<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Creating opportunity and understanding in a multicultural world on the move: Refugee resettlement agencies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Carol Benson (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The importance of a multilingual habitus when assessing literacy skills in educational<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">development<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Erina Iwasaki (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Reframing multilingualism in terms of opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ari Sherris (Texas A & M University-Kingsville, Texas, USA) & Joy Kreeft Peyton (Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The power of multilingualism and multiliteracy for languages and groups<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Additional information and registration at
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.languageandtheun.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Humphrey Tonkin</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">President & University Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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