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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We are delighted to announce the
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">are interested in language policy around the world, and we have plans to host
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">online and offline seminars. Our inaugural event will be at the University of Leeds, 2 September, at the end of this year’s BAAL conference. Meanwhile our email list will be a day-to-day
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Anyone and everyone is welcome to
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">join our group. Membership is free, and you don’t have to be a member of BAAL
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">(though we encourage everyone to join!).
</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">By joining our group you’ll be
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/langpol/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk671508" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1155CC"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://sites.google.com/view/langpol/</span></span></a></span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">.
Click the ‘Join!’ link at the top to sign up.</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hope to see
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">you there!</span></p>
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