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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:black">The Study Group on Language and the United Nations</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:black">invites you to contribute to a</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:22.0pt">The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a Multilingual World</span></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">on Thursday & Friday, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 9-10,
<span style="color:black">2019</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">at the Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco on June 26, 1945, and came into force on October 24 of that year. Thus the United Nations will
celebrate its 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary in the year 2020. For the past 74 years, the United Nations has worked (in the words of the Charter) to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, and to
promote social progress. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">In short, it has created a framework of international agreement and cooperation that, though fragile and often threatened, has endured for three generations.
What can be done to secure its future?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">According to Article 1 (3) of the Charter, among the purposes of the United Nations is the achievement of <span style="background:white">international
co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion</span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">This symposium will give particular attention to the question of language. Although the UN has always promoted dialogue, in recent
years it has grown more sensitive to the need for equality in dialogue. In other words, it has become increasingly aware of the need to listen to its constituents rather than simply talking to them, and to understand as well as to be understood. Such concepts
are inherent in the Sustainable Development Goals accepted in 2015 and setting the agenda for the UN as it grows closer to its first hundred years. In a world in which thousands of languages are spoken, is the UN ready for equal dialogue, now and in the future?
If not, what is to be done to create linguistic readiness both in the internal workings of the organization and in its relations with the larger world? These questions have particular relevance in 2019, the UNs International Year of Indigenous Languages.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">The organizers of the Symposium welcome proposals from scholars and practitioners for brief 20-minute papers, both applied and theoretical,
on such topics as</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">Dialogue in development</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">Language policy in the UN and other international governmental and nongovernmental organizations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">Translation and interpretation
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; color:black">(e.g., translator and interpreter training, working with translators and interpreters, ongoing professional development for language proficiency maintenance)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">Multilingualism at the UN and in international co-operation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; color:black">The role of language in public diplomacy, outreach, and other fieldwork</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white">Professional development needs for multilingual operations, including development, peacekeeping, and diplomacy</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; background:white"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Language and the three pillars of the UN: human rights, peace and security, and development</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Professional development for language proficiency: Building organizational language capacity as a human resource</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">The role of language in negotiation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Monolingualism and the illusion of consensus</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Language problems and miscommunication</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Language awareness among UN agencies and staff</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Language education: Preparing the next generation for international relations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black; margin-bottom:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Indigenous languages and the work of the United Nations</span></li></ul>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Please send proposals (200 words or less,
</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt">accompanied by a biography of approximately 50 words</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">) to Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (l.atalianis@bbk.ac.uk), by February 15th, 2019. The
committee expects to make final decisions on the program by March 4<sup>th</sup>, 2019.</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></b></p>
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