Colloquium on Linguistic Human Rights
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Monday, November 6
On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
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10am-11:30am
Conversation with UW-Madison students
Facilitators: Jane Zuengler and Francois Tochon
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Invited lecture:
English: a lingua franca or an Anglo-American Frankenstein?
Robert Phillipson
Copenhagen Business School
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Debate on Linguistic Human Rights and Language Discrimination
Discussants: Tom Cravens, Mariana Pachecco, Uli Schamiloglu, Francois Tochon
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Invited lecture:
Prerequisites for Linguistic Human Rights: Intellectual Games versus Respect for Language Identities
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
University of Roskilde, Denmark; Åbo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland
The colloquium is free and open to the public.
Sponsors:
University Lectures Committee, Deptartment of Curriculum and Instruction, Language Institute, Division of International Studies, Department of French and Italian; Department of English, Department of Educational Policy Studies, School of Education International Education Committee, Global Studies, Center for European Studies, School of Business and CIBER.
For more information, contact Professor Francois Tochon. |