27.680, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 27.680, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Gen Ling, Socioling/USA

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:10:38
From: Lisa McEntee-Atalianis [l.atalianis at bbk.ac.uk]
Subject: A Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals

Full Title: A Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals 

Date: 21-Apr-2016 - 22-Apr-2016
Location: New York, New York, USA 
Contact Person: Humphrey Tonkin
Meeting Email: tonkin at hartford.edu
Web Site: http://www.languageandtheun.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 17th Sustainable Development Goals approved by the United Nations General
Assembly for the period 2015-2030 (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/)
replace the eight Millennium Development Goals that covered the period
2000-2015.  They aim to engage not only governments, but “all people,
everywhere,” at all levels of civil society.  Carrying them out will require
active, two-way, democratic communication, in a multiplicity of languages. 
Furthermore, several of the Goals imply direct attention to issues of
language.  Study and research on language in relation to economic and social
development is a well-established field.  What does this field have to
contribute to the realization of the SDGs?  What linguistic obstacles stand in
the way of their successful realization?  

Call for Papers:

The Study Group on Language at the United Nations in cooperation with The
Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems and the
Center for Applied Linguisticsinvites you to contribute to

A Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals

Thursday & Friday, 21-22 April, 2016  
at the Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 
(First Avenue at 44th Street), Thursday 1:00-5:00; Friday 9:15-5:00

The organizers welcome proposals for brief 20-minute papers on topics linked
to the SDGs, such as:

- Language as a factor in sustainable development
- Language as a factor in the realization of the SDGs
- Language revival and maintenance in relation to the SDGs
- Language and quality education (Goal 4)
- Language and mother-tongue education (Goal 4)
- Language and gender equality (Goal 5)
- Language and economic growth (Goal 8)
- Language and reduced inequalities (Goal 10)
- Language and peace & justice (Goal 16)
- Cooperation in the fulfilment of the SDGs (Goal 17)
- NGOs and language policy in relation to the SDGs
- UN language policy and the SDGs

Please send proposals (200 words or less, accompanied by an approximately
50-word biography) to the chair of the symposium organizing committee, Prof.
Humphrey Tonkin, at tonkin at hartford.edu, by 15 February 2016. The committee
expects to make final decisions on the program by 1 March.

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