<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>The the preliminary program for our upcoming virtual event around language and migration is now available at the event webpage. This program includes descriptions of the various discussion boards, questions to prompt discussion, and short readings that can help registered participants prepare. The registration deadline has also been extended until 9 November.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see the call for participation below for the link to both the event webpage and the registration form. We are particularly eager to have practitioners among our participants - interpreters and translators, legal counsel, social service providers, etc. - so please spread the word to practitioners in your circles. We also have a discussion board devoted to the language experiences of international students, so forward this call on to that target audience as well. </div><div><br></div><div>We are still looking for people who might wish to serve as facilitators over the course of the two-day event in 3-hour blocks. Let me know if you are interested if you haven't already. We will soon send around a link to a sign-up sheet where you can choose the discussion board that interests you and the time block that suits your schedule and time zone. We will then follow up with guidelines about how facilitation works. It is not hard and is very interesting. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much in advance. </div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Leigh Swigart and the LCJ Hub team<div>International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life</div><div>Brandeis University</div><div>Waltham, MA, USA<br><div><a href="mailto:LCJHub@brandeis.edu" style="color:rgb(51,51,153);font-size:13px" target="_blank">LCJHub@brandeis.edu</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/internationaljustice/language-culture-justice/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/internationaljustice/language-culture-justice/index.html</a><br></div></div><div>+1 781 736 2694</div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u>
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<div style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br><strong>FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</strong><br><br><strong><em><span style="font-size:15px">Rights, Rules and Rhetoric</span></em><br>Exploring language for and about migrants in Australia, Europe and North America</strong><br>17-18 November 2020<br><br>The <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/8gje2c/g7wc9wd/sctmml" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Language, Culture and Justice Hub</a> invites you to participate in an asynchronous and written online “learning exchange” exploring diverse language challenges facing migrants as they navigate legal and other critical contexts, work in academic/professional settings, and respond to rhetoric that (mis)(re)presents them. <br><br><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/8gje2c/g7wc9wd/84tmml" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">The preliminary program is now available on the event webpage</a>.<br><br><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/8gje2c/g7wc9wd/oxumml" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Register at this link</a> until 9 November 2020.<br><br>Participation is simple: over the course of 17 and 18 November (starting 16 November in North America), attendees log on at their convenience to the learning exchange platform to review comments and contribute their own thoughts to the developing group conversation. A minimum of two hours of participation is expected, and there are no registration fees. <br><br>Entitled <em>Rights, Rules and Rhetoric</em>, this virtual exchange seeks to examine and compare diverse language-related facets of the migration experience across Australia, Europe and North America. These facets can be grouped along three axes:<br> </span></div>
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<div style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5"><span style="line-height:1.5">1) the rights enacted through laws or directives ensuring procedural fairness for migrants, including their ability to access critical information in their languages through translated documents or interpretation;<br><br>2) the everyday rules, written and unwritten, of language provision and practice in situations involving migrants which may fall short of formally guaranteed rights and reflect various "language ideologies," that is, common if sometimes misguided understandings of how language works; and<br><br>3) the problematic or demonizing rhetoric about migrants and their communities of origin, and the obstacles such rhetoric may create for people on the move.<br><br>The exchange will also examine the impact of the current pandemic both on the availability and adequacy of language services, and on public narratives about migrants from regions that have been described, often inaccurately, as sources of the coronavirus.<br><br><em>Rights, Rules and Rhetoric</em> seeks participation by a broad range of actors: migrants, international students, asylum seekers/refugees, scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners and policymakers from diverse fields. The working language of the exchange will be English, but contributions can also be offered and read in Spanish, French, and Arabic with the help of computer-generated translation.<br><br><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/8gje2c/g7wc9wd/4pvmml" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Visit the event webpage</a> to download the preliminary program and read more about the aims of the learning exchange, organizers and partner institutions, and how it will all work.<br><br><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/8gje2c/g7wc9wd/kiwmml" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Register</a> for the <em>Rights, Rules and Rhetoric</em> learning exchange until <strong>9 November 2020</strong>. <br><br>Direct any questions to learning exchange coordinator Hillary Mellinger: <a href="mailto:hmellinger@brandeis.edu" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">hmellinger@brandeis.edu</a>.<br><br>We hope you will contribute your perspectives and experiences during this important event exploring language and migration. Please forward on this call for participation to others who might be interested and share the <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/8gje2c/g7wc9wd/0axmml" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Facebook event</a> with your networks.<br></span></div>
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