Conference announcement

[Peter Austin]

** Posted on behalf of my colleague Itesh Sachdev **

Dear colleague,

This email announces a call for papers for our second international
conference with MERCATOR at the Fryske Akademy.  It will take place on
7-8th April, 2011 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands, under the
general theme of 'LANGUAGES OF THE WIDER WORLD: RESILIENCE & SHIFT IN
REGIONAL AND MINORITY LANGUAGES" .  The details for the conference
subthemes, registration, etc are in the attached document.  The
keynote addresses will be delivered by Richard Bourhis, Professor of
Social Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; Ofelia
Garcia, Professor of Urban Education, The City University of New York,
USA; Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director, The European Centre for
Modern Languages, Graz, Austria; Anne Pauwels, Professor of
Sociolinguistics, SOAS, University of London, UK, Miquel Strubell,
Executive Secretary, Linguamón & U.O.C. Chair in Multilingualism,
Barcelona, Spain.

I would be grateful if you could pass on this call to interested
others.  Please also note that the deadline for submission of
abstracts (250 words) is 10th January, 2011.  Abstract should be
submitted to mercator at fryske-akademy.nl

Many apologies if you have already received this.

best wishes

itesh

-- 
Itesh Sachdev, PhD (Psychology),
Professor of Language and Communication
Department of Linguistics

-- 
Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

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