Cherish your Mother Language! A celebration on the occasion of Mother Language Day

In partnership with the Division of Conference Management at the United Nations Office at Geneva, we invited you to an online event to celebrate intercultural dialogue and the safeguarding of the diversity of mother languages around the world. 

Check out our recorded session as participants engaged in the conversation on how the UN could act for these purposes and learned more from our guest experts on endangered languages and cognitive studies.

Participating in this session:

Speakers

Professor Ghil ’ad ZUCKERMANN, Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The University of Adelaide, Australia 
Dr. Sheena SHAH, Linguist, Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany
Kira KRUGLIKOVA, Director of Division of Conference Management, and Chair of the Multilingualism Action Team

Moderator

Léa KOTLAR, Knowledge & Learning Commons