Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Coordinación de Humanidades
Centro de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras
Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego"
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

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FIFTH SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE PLANNING

Complexity and language planning: Rights of Minority Communities

Venue: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego"
del 20 al 22 de noviembre de 2013
Puebla de los Angeles, México

The objective of this symposium is to join researchers in Language Policy and Cultural Rights together with specialists on International Law, Language and Complex Systems as well as representatives of indigenous organizations in order to both analyze and evaluate the effects of contemporary changes on sustainability and survival of communities and the emergence of their rights.

In this event, we expect to develop the following discussion lines:

1. Diversity, social cohesion and new minorities from a complex system perspective;
2. Effects of the global crisis on migratory flows as well as on the continuity of their ethnolinguistic heritage;
3. Policy implementation and actors that make planning possible;
4. Appropriateness and quality of plurilingual and intercultural education;
5. Methodologies to study sociolinguistic change and implementation strategies;
6. Diverse functions of writing in plurilingual and pluricultural situations;
7. Reconfiguration of identities in the contemporary glocal scenario;
8. Regulations and legal instruments -both national and international- to recognize and protect minorities.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Javier López Sánchez (Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas)
Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University). Canceled participation
Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University)
Albert Bastardas-Boada (Universidad de Barcelona)
Gunther Dietz (Universidad Veracruzana)