Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace

[Francis M Hult]

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> Date: 20-May-2004 - 23-May-2004
> Location: Barcelona, Spain
> Contact: Josep Cru
> Contact Email: info at linguapax.org
> Meeting URL: http://www.linguapax.org
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> Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2004
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> Meeting Description:
>
> Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace.
>
> The need to preserve the languages of the world and counter the processes
> of language shift that are taking place worldwide has become a major
> concern shared by researchers, scholars and leaders of many language
> communities.
>
> This Dialogue wants to bring together all persons interested in the
> maintenance of linguistic diversity in order to generate fruitful
> discussions that may be used to hold back the current processes of
> cultural homogenization of the world.
>
> The congress will be held in Barcelona between May 20 and 23 in the
> framework of the Universal Forum of Cultures - Barcelona 2004. Working
> sessions will be of two types. On the one hand, the keynote
> communications, that will give a general overview on the three main axes
> of the congress (language diversity, sustainability and peace) and the
> possible interrelations among them, taking into account the new cultural,
> social, political and economic factors stemming from an increasing
> globalization process. On the other hand, the five parallel workshops that
> will be held in the afternoon sessions will have a more specific approach
> to linguistic diversity and its relation to language policy and planning.
> Working languages will be Catalan, English, French and Spanish.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Participants willing to present a communication in the framework of a
> specific workshop are invited to submit an abstract of their paper before
> March 1st 2004 through electronic mail at info at linguapax.org. - All papers
> will be reviewed by the Dialogue's Organising Committee and by the
> corresponding workshop coordinator. The results of the selection process
> will be made public on March 15th. - Criteria for selection are
> appropriateness to the central issue of the workshop, originality,
> innovativeness and diversity in terms of cultural or linguistic origin. -
> Only two communications will be selected for each worskhop. The time
> allocated to each presentation is limited to 30 minutes, followed by a 15
> minutes debate. - Speakers selected through the call for papers process
> will have to be registered as regular participants. - Abstracts will be
> saved as Word, RTF or Word Perfect documents. They shall not exceed 1000
> words or 6000 characters including spaces and must be drafted in any of
> the working languages of the congress (Catalan, English, French, Spanish).
> The intended workshop must clearly be indicated on the top of the front
> page. Authors must indicate their current position and join a short
> paragraph summarizing their background.
>