Langscape, the magazine of the NGO Terralingua, just extended the deadline of the call for abstracts for its spring issue. Extracts from the call (with February 7 deadline!) are copied below, but what caught my eye about this …
Category Archives: language
CFP: Language and the SDGs
An upcoming symposium in New York on 21-22 April 2016 will address “Language and the Sustainable Development Goals.” This offers an opportunity to address specific aspects of the importance of languages in international development.
The following call for papers is …
Visualizing language, development, education & ICT connections
A few years ago, I came across the following “model of development communication with regard to language(s) and education” by Ekkehard Wolff, a professor emeritus and former Chair of African Studies at the University of Leipzig. It was …
CFP: Language and Development 2015
The biennial Language and Development Conference will next be held in New Delhi, India on 18-20 November 2015. The first page of the call for papers is displayed below – note 26 June deadline extended to July 12. For …
International Mother Language Day, 2010
The 11th observation of International Mother Language Day takes place today. There are some events that follow in the next couple of days and I’ll post on those separately.
…International Decade of Languages proposed
There has been some formal discussion of the idea of an International Decade of Languages at UNESCO‘s General Conference this month in Paris. On 8 October, the representative of Austria, Dr. Claudia Schmied, “welcomed” a proposal apparently …