26.471, Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA

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Subject: 26.471, Calls: Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:20:59
From: Asya Pereltsvaig [asya_pereltsvaig at yahoo.com]
Subject: A Symposium on Language and Exclusion

 
Full Title: A Symposium on Language and Exclusion 

Date: 07-May-2015 - 07-May-2015
Location: New York, NY, USA 
Contact Person: Humphrey Tonkin
Meeting Email: tonkin at hartford.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 13-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

The organizers welcome proposals for brief 20-minute papers on topics such as the following:

- Language policy in international organizations
- Language parity in international settings
- Language use at, and by, the United Nations
- Language as a factor in sustainable development
- Language and human rights
- Discrimination on grounds of language
- Language and the post-2015 development agenda
- The role of language in international peacekeeping
- Language and globalization
- Language and minority rights
- Mother-tongue education
- NGOs and language policy

Call for Papers:

Please send proposals (200 words or less) to the chair of the symposium organizing committee, Prof. Humphrey Tonkin, at tonkin at hartford.edu, by February 13, 2015.  The committee expects to make final decisions on the program by March 1.







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