European Democracy and the Language Question: LSE lecture

[Damien Hall]

This could be of interest to any list members in the London area in the 
middle of February. On 12 February, Prof. Philippe van Parijs (Leuven / 
Harvard) will deliver the Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture at the London 
School of Economics:

EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND THE LANGUAGE QUESTION

Is democracy sustainable in a multilingual polity? Or should appropriate 
institutions make democracy compatible with multilingualism? Which of these 
views does the experience of the European Union support? Or is the EU 
irrelevant to this dispute as English fast becomes Europe's lingua franca?

Further details of time and place etc are available here:

http://tinyurl.com/EuroDemocAndLangs

-- 
Damien Hall

University of York
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK

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