Calendar of Events

21-02-2008 - 17-12-2008 (many) 

• 21 Febuary:  (UNESCO Paris) Official Launching of the Year with a Conference on standard-setting instruments promoting multilingualism
  
  
• 5-7 March:  (Johannesburg, South-Africa) and 22 to 24 April (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) Conferences of the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN) on "The role of trans-border languages and of lesser-used languages in Africa" 
  
  
• 28 May: (UNESCO Paris) Conference of  ACALAN on "African Languages as a factor of integration" 
  
  
• 9 June: (Paris, France) Launch of the Chirac Foundation and its Programme for the Protection of Endangered Languages
  
  
• 13-15 June: (Eisenstadt, Austria) International Conference “Multilingualism in every-day life"
  
  
• 1-3 July: (Bangkok Thailand) 2nd International Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Ethnolinguistic Communities;
  
  
• 2-4 July: (Yakutsk, Russian Federation) International Conference "Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace"
  
  
• 27-28 August: (Tokyo, Japan) UNU-UNESCO Conference “Multilingualism and Globalization"
  
  
• 7 October:  (UNESCO, Paris) Executive Board Thematic Debate on “Protecting indigenous and endangered languages and the role of languages in promoting EFA in the context of sustainable development.”
  
  
• 9-10 October: (Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain) International Conference “Challenges of Minority Languages at the Globalization Age”
  
  
• 4 November: (UN Association of Spain, Lleida) International Year of Languages Seminar
  
  
• 27-20 November: Minority languiages conference, Helsinki
  
  
• 17 December: Linguistic Diversity, Globalization and Development, UN Headquarters, NYC