Thailand Royal Institute International Conference on Language Policy, Second Announcement

[Harold Schiffman]

SECOND CIRCULAR

"NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY FOR NATIONAL UNITY"
NEW DATE: July 4-5, 2008

The Royal Institute of Thailand, in cooperation with UNESCO-Bangkok,
UNICEF-Thailand, the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education
Organization (SEAMEO), the Embassy of Australia, and SIL
International, invites scholars, government officials, and language
practitioners from around the globe to submit abstracts for an
international conference on "National Language Policy: Language
Diversity for National Unity," July 4-5, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Keynote speakers will include Bernard  Spolsky, Joseph LoBianco, David
Bradley, and other noted language policy experts.  Conference topics
 will include (but are not limited to):

• Case studies in language planning and language policy;
• English education in non-English speaking countries;
• Language policy and conflict resolution;
• Language policy and refugee/transnational migration situations;
• Bilingual and multilingual education policies and practice;
• Language policy and ethno-linguistic minority languages;
• Translation policies and practices on the international, national,
and local levels;
• Corpus planning for national languages;
• Language policy and the UN Millennium Development Goals
• Language policy and socio-economic theory (with special emphasis on
the Self-
  Sufficiency Economic Theory of His Majesty King Bhumibol of Thailand)

Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts: March 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2008
Deadline for submission of papers for publication in proceedings:
August 31, 2008

Registration:

Participant – Thai Resident  Baht 2,000 /person
• Student – Thai Resident   Baht 1,000 /person
• Non-Thai Resident
- before April 30, 2008  US $ 150 /person
- after April 30, 2008   US $ 175 /person
Accommodations: TBA

Contact: Dr. Cholthicha  Sudmuk  cholthicha at royin.go.th
http://www.royin.go.th/th/home/
 or http://www.royin.go.th/en/home/

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length, and include the
speaker's name, email address, and affiliation.  Abstracts should be
submitted as Word documents.  Presentations will be limited to 20
minutes, with 10 minutes for questions.  In keeping with the
multilingual spirit of the conference, presentations may be made in
any language, but non-English speaking presenters must themselves
arrange for translation into English, and must conform to time
limitations.

This conference immediately follows the "Second International
Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and
Multilingual Education in Ethnic Minority Communities" (July 1-3,
2008) http://www.seameo.org/_ld2008/.


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