Online Symposium – Language Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

3 November 2020, by Abteilung Internationales

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

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

There are two parts:

• Chinese-language session on Friday, Nov 06, 2-4pm Beijing time (=7-9am CET)
• English-language session on Saturday, Nov 07, 3:30-6pm Beijing time (=8:30-11am CET)

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.

 Funded by the MQ-FU-HAM Funding 2020 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, Universität Hamburg and Macquarie University.