CFP: Thailand “NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY: L ANGUAGE DIVERSITY FOR NATIONAL UNITY”

[Doug Cooper]

(Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts: March 15, 2008)
(http://www.royin.go.th/en/home/)


“NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY FOR NATIONAL UNITY”
NEW DATE: July 4-5, 2008

The Royal Institute of Thailand, in cooperation with UNESCO-Bangkok, 
UNICEF-Thailand, the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization 
(SEAMEO), the Embassy of Australia, and SIL International, invites scholars, 
government officials, and language practitioners from around the globe to 
submit abstracts for an international conference on “National Language Policy: 
Language Diversity for National Unity,” July 4-5, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. 
  Keynote speakers will include Bernard  Spolsky, Joseph LoBianco, David 
Bradley, and other noted language policy experts.  Conference topics  will 
include (but are not limited to):
• Case studies in language planning and language policy;
• English education in non-English speaking countries;
• Language policy and conflict resolution;
• Language policy and refugee/transnational migration situations;
• Bilingual and multilingual education policies and practice;
• Language policy and ethno-linguistic minority languages;
• Translation policies and practices on the international, national, and local 
levels;
• Corpus planning for national languages;
• Language policy and the UN Millennium Development Goals
• Language policy and socio-economic theory (with special emphasis on the Self-
   Sufficiency Economic Theory of His Majesty King Bhumibol of Thailand)

Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts: March 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2008
Deadline for submission of papers for publication in proceedings: August 31, 2008

Registration:
• Participant – Thai Resident  Baht 2,000 /person
• Student – Thai Resident   Baht 1,000 /person
• Non-Thai Resident
- before April 30, 2008  US $ 150 /person
- after April 30, 2008   US $ 175 /person
Accommodations: TBA

Contact: Dr. Cholthicha  Sudmuk  cholthicha at royin.go.th
http://www.royin.go.th/th/home/
  or http://www.royin.go.th/en/home/

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length, and include the speaker’s 
name, email address, and affiliation.  Abstracts should be submitted as Word 
documents.  Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for 
questions.  In keeping with the multilingual spirit of the conference, 
presentations may be made in any language, but non-English speaking presenters 
must themselves arrange for translation into English, and must conform to time 
limitations.

This conference immediately follows the "Second International Conference on 
Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in 
Ethnic Minority Communities" (July 1-3, 2008) http://www.seameo.org/_ld2008/.