Online symposium to discuss language challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Following on from the recently published special issue of Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic Diversity in a time of crisis“, we are pleased to announce an online symposium, where contributors to the special issue will discuss language challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are two parts:

·         Chinese-language session on Friday, Nov 06, 2-4pm Beijing time (=5-7pm AEDT)

·         English-language session on Saturday, Nov 07, 3:30-6pm Beijing time (=6:30-9pm AEDT))

Both events will be live-streamed on Bilibili: http://live.bilibili.com/22589379

An overview of the program of the two sessions is available here, and additional information about each session can be found at 危机时期的语言多样性 or Linguistic Diversity in a time of crisis.

The online symposium is convened by Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University), Yongyan Zheng (Fudan University) and Jia Li (Yunnan University). It is co-hosted by Fudan University, Yunnan University, Hamburg University, and Macquarie University, and funded under the Hamburg-Macquarie-Fudan Trilateral Partnership Agreement.

You are cordially invited, and please help us share information about this free symposium with your colleagues and students.