The Church Center777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY

(First Avenue and 44th Street)

Registration details at: www.languageandtheun.org

Multilingualism in International Organizations and in International Co-operation:

A SymposiumNew York, Thursday-Friday, May 10 & 11, 2018

organized byThe Study Group on Language and the United Nations

in co-operation withBirkbeck, University of London

Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington DCCenter for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems

Universal Esperanto Association

Keynote Speaker: Michele GazzolaA specialist in the economics of language, Michele Gazzola is a member

of the Research Group on Economics and Language, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Universität Leipzig, Germany.

Featured speakers will include H.E. Amb. Narjess Saidane, Permanent Observer to the UN for the International Organization of La Francophonie, H.E. Amb. Rudolph Michael Ten-Pow, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guyana to the UN, H.E. Amb.

Valentin Rybakov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the UN, H.E. Amb. Martín García Moritán, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the UN, Carolyn Benson (Teachers College, Columbia U.), John Edwards (St. Francis Xavier U., Canada), Francis M. Hult (Lund U., Sweden), Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck, U of London), Timothy Reagan (U. of Maine),

Humphrey Tonkin (U. of Hartford), and Joel Goméz (Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington DC).

Thursday, 9:00am–5:00pm, Friday 9:00am–5:00pm