An international conference on sustainable multilingualism will be held on 26-27 May, 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
The Sustainable Multilingualism conference aims at bringing together scholars and professionals to discuss issues relevant to the sustainable development of individual and societal multilingualism. Keynote speakers include Manuel Célio Conceição, President of the European Language Council (ELC) and Jean-Marc Dewaele, President of the International Association of Multilingualism.
The "Sustainable Multilingualism" conference aims at bringing together scholars and language education professionals to share their research insights and discuss the issues relevant to the development of individual and societal multilingualism, including language policy, linguistic human rights, and language education in higher education.
Confirmed keynote speakers are Manuel Célio Conceição, President of the European Language Council (ELC), Jean-Marc Dewaele, President of the International Association of Multilingualism, Rober Phillipson (Copenhagen Business School) and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Roskilde University).
The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 March 2017. Submissions are welcome in areas such as language policy, language education in multilingual and multicultural environment, minority language education, multilingualism for business and in business, multilingualism and educational mobility, non-formal and informal development of plurilingual competence, literature and multilingualism, and translation in multilingual environment.
Reasons to attend this conference include the opportunity to meet in person world-known researchers in linguistic human rights and outstanding language policy researchers and developers, the opportunity to share your research insights within the international community, discuss current issues of multilingualism with members of the international community, strengthen your existing partnerships and establish new partnerships in the international research and education community. And by the way, Lithuania, one of the three Baltic states, is the country where the oldest surviving Indo-European language is spoken.
The conference is organised by the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in cooperation with the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA).
For more information, please visit http://uki.vdu.lt/conferences/sustainable-multilingualism-2017/