30.77, Calls: Applied Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 30.77, Calls: Applied Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:11:00
From: Lisa McEntee-Atalianis [l.atalianis at bbk.ac.uk]
Subject: The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a Multilingual World

 
Full Title: The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a Multilingual World 

Date: 09-May-2019 - 10-May-2019
Location: New York, USA 
Contact Person: Lisa McEntee-Atalianis
Meeting Email: l.atalianis at bbk.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a
Multilingual World

The Study Group on Language and the United Nations invites you to contribute
to a Symposium on:
  
The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a
Multilingual World
 
on Thursday & Friday, May 9-10, 2019
at the Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA
First Avenue at 44th Street
 
The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco on June 26, 1945, and
came into force on October 24 of that year. Thus the United Nations will
celebrate its 75th anniversary in the year 2020. For the past 74 years, the
United Nations has worked (in the words of the Charter) “to save succeeding
generations from the scourge of war,” “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights,” and “to promote social progress.”

In short, it has created a framework of international agreement and
cooperation that, though fragile and often threatened, has endured for three
generations. What can be done to secure its future?

According to Article 1 (3) of the Charter, among the purposes of the United
Nations is the achievement of “international co-operation in solving
international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian
character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or
religion.”

This symposium will give particular attention to the question of language.
Although the UN has always promoted dialogue, in recent years it has grown
more sensitive to the need for equality in dialogue. In other words, it has
become increasingly aware of the need to listen to its constituents rather
than simply talking to them, and to understand as well as to be understood.
Such concepts are inherent in the Sustainable Development Goals accepted in
2015 and setting the agenda for the UN as it grows closer to its first hundred
years. In a world in which thousands of languages are spoken, is the UN ready
for equal dialogue, now and in the future? If not, what is to be done to
create linguistic readiness – both in the internal workings of the
organization and in its relations with the larger world? These questions have
particular relevance in 2019, the UN’s International Year of Indigenous
Languages.


Call for Papers:

The organizers of the Symposium welcome proposals from scholars and
practitioners for brief 20-minute papers, both applied and theoretical, on
such topics as:

Dialogue in development
Language policy in the UN and other international governmental and
nongovernmental organizations
Translation and interpretation (e.g., translator and interpreter training,
working with translators and interpreters, ongoing professional development
for language proficiency maintenance)
Multilingualism at the UN and in international co-operation
The role of language in public diplomacy, outreach, and other fieldwork
Professional development needs for multilingual operations, including
development, peacekeeping, and diplomacy
Language and the three pillars of the UN: human rights, peace and security,
and development
Professional development for language proficiency: Building organizational
language capacity as a human resource
The role of language in negotiation
Monolingualism and the illusion of consensus
Language problems and miscommunication
Language awareness among UN agencies and staff
Language education: Preparing the next generation for international relations
Indigenous languages and the work of the United Nations
 
Please send proposals (200 words or less, accompanied by a biography of
approximately 50 words) to Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (l.atalianis at bbk.ac.uk),
by February 15, 2019.  The committee expects to make final decisions on the
program by March 4, 2019.




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