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<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please remember that the deadline for abstract submission is April 15</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">!</span></b></div>
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</span><a href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/simila2023/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/simila2023/" data-loopstyle="link" id="LPlnk929381"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">1st Symposium on Indigenous Minority
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Symposium aims to bring together researchers and specialists of indigenous minority language learning, and to open discussion on the challenges of developing teaching and
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The symposium aims to offer multisited discussion fora, we invite panels, papers, workshop-like presentations and discussions as well as tutorials of already developed learning
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The symposium focuses primarily on Arctic indigenous minority languages, but accepts proposals discussing other language families or geographic areas as well. </span></div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Promoting multilingualism and the use of indigenous minority languages is priority of the symposium. The working languages of the symposium are English and indigenous minority
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