36.2837, FYI: New webinar series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-2837. Mon Sep 22 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.2837, FYI: New webinar series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa

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Date: 22-Sep-2025
From: Bert van Pinxteren [afrilang at outlook.com]
Subject: New webinar series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa


Check out a new series of webinars on Language Policy in Africa,
hosted by the University of Bern (Switzerland):
https://initiativeafrique.unibe.ch/news_and_events/events/upcoming_events/index_eng.html
The first of these webinars will be on 3 October, from 4 to 5 pm CEST
(Berlin, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lusaka, Madrid). Speaker will be
Caroline Story from Texas State University, who will discuss her
article “Postcolonial Language Imperialism in Africa – The Latter-day
Saints Missionary Program.” She will explore how and why missionaries
are trained to do their work using certain languages, and not others.
The session will be moderated by Djouroukoro Diallo of the University
of Bern.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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