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mso-outline-level:2;tab-stops:.25in'>The 2002 Esperanto Studies Conference, held this year under the auspices of the Center for Exploration and Documentation of the World Language Problem (CED) during the World Esperanto Congress in <span class=SpellE>Fortaleza</span>, Brazil (August 4-10, 2002) will have the theme  Esperanto Culture: Diversity in Unity, Unity in Diversity .</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:14.25pt;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; mso-outline-level:2;tab-stops:.25in'>The Conference will be divided into two sections. In the first, a panel of experts will discuss the characteristics of the Esperanto culture as a whole and what can be done to strengthen both it and the language community which carries it. In the second section, the role of the Universal Esperanto Association in the development of the Esperanto culture will be discussed.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:14.25pt;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; mso-outline-level:2;tab-stops:.25in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>II.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>17<sup>th</sup> International Conference of Linguistics, </span></b><st1:City><st1:place><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Prague</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> (CZ): July 24-29 (2003)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:14.25pt;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; mso-outline-level:2;tab-stops:.25in'>The Center for Exploration and Documentation of the World Language (CED) is planning a meeting of researchers in interlinguistics toward the beginning of the 17<sup>th</sup> International Conference of Linguistics in <st1:City><st1:place>Prague</st1:place></st1:City> next year. Details will follow.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-outline-level:2;tab-stops:.25in'><a href="ES%201.02%20toc.htm">Return to Table of Contents</a><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> </body> </html>