Call for Papers: Fifth biannual REAL symposium "Human Capital, Languages, and New Literacies: Theories, Policies, and Impacts"

REAL (Research group "Economics, policy analysis, and language") in cooperation with Ulster University, Universitat de Barcelona, and Universitat Rovira i Virgili organizes an interdisciplinary symposium on "Human Capital, Languages, and New Literacies: Theories, Policies, and Impacts" on 3–4 June 2024 at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

The call for papers and infos are available here https://www.congressos.urv.cat/real-symposium-2024-human-capital/

The symposium aims to discuss the relationship between languages and human capital in the widest possible sense while paying attention also to the new forms of literacies that the digital revolution has brought about. Contributions to the symposium can cover theoretical and empirical research on the topic, or the practical implications in terms of language policy and impact. The symposium is interdisciplinary, and contributions are accepted from economics, political science, sociology, law, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. 

Those interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract of no more than 500 words to Bengt-Arne Wickström bengt-arne.wickstroem@andrassyuni.hu before the 15th of April 2024.