37.3092, FYI: New Season of Webinars on 'Language Policy in Africa' to Start 2 October 2026

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Subject: 37.3092, FYI: New Season of Webinars on 'Language Policy in Africa' to Start 2 October 2026

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Date: 26-Sep-2026
From: Bert van Pinxteren [afrilang at outlook.com]
Subject: New Season of Webinars on 'Language Policy in Africa' to Start 2 October 2026


A new season of the webinar series "Conversations on Language Policy
in Africa" ​​is about to begin! The first webinar, scheduled for
October 2 at 4:00 PM (CEST), will take the form of a roundtable
discussion on the topic: "Language Policy and Planning in Africa: What
Role for Terminology?" Please note that this webinar will be conducted
in French.
The next session will take place on November 6 at 4:00 PM (CET) and
will be led by Gladys Nyarko Ansah and Nana Ama Agyeman; it will focus
on language policies in education in Ghana and the identification of
gaps.
For more information and to register, please visit:
https://initiativeafrique.unibe.ch/events/events/upcoming_events/index_eng.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Bambara (bam, bamb1269)
                     Baoulé (bci, baou1238)

Language Family(ies): Gur (gura1261)
                      Kwa



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