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From http://www.languageandtheun.org/events.html

The Study Group on Language and the United Nations invites you to a Symposium 
The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a Multilingual World
May 9-10, 2019
New York, New York

This symposium will give particular attention to the question of language. Although the UN has always promoted dialogue, in recent years it has grown more sensitive to the need for equality in dialogue. In other words, it has become increasingly aware of the need to listen to its constituents rather than simply talking to them, and to understand as well as to be understood. Such concepts are inherent in the Sustainable Development Goals accepted in 2015 and setting the agenda for the UN as it grows closer to its first hundred years. In a world in which thousands of languages are spoken, is the UN ready for equal dialogue, now and in the future? If not, what is to be done to create linguistic readiness – both in the internal workings of the organization and in its relations with the larger world? These questions have particular relevance in 2019, the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages.

Visit the symposium website for more details: http://www.languageandtheun.org/events.html