New York, Thursday-Friday, April 21 & 22, 2016
Symposium organized by
The Study Group on Language and the United Nations
in co-operation with
The Center for Applied Linguistics and the
Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems
Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Romaine
Well-known for her work on historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, from 1984 to 2014 Suzanne Romaine was Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford
The Church Center
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
(First Avenue and 44th Street)
Thursday, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals approved by the UN General Assembly (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/) for the period 2015-2030 replace the eight Millennium Development Goals that covered the period 2000-2015. They aim to engage not only governments, but “all people, everywhere,” at all levels of civil society. Carrying them out will require active, two-way, democratic communication, in a multiplicity of languages. Furthermore, several of the Goals imply direct attention to issues of language. Study and research on language in relation to economic and social development is a well-established field that does not always receive the attention it merits. What does this field have to contribute to the realization of the SDGs? What linguistic obstacles stand in the way of their successful realization?
Registration details at: www.languageandtheun.org
UN and UN mission staff, and NGO representatives, are especially welcome
2016 Symposium Registration
2016 Symposium Call for Papers
2016 Symposium Programme
Event Documents for the Symposium on Language and Language and the Sustainable Development Goals