Chair
Dr Jean-François Dupré
Université TÉLUQ
Humanities, Letters and Communication
Canada
jfdupre@connect.hku.hk
Vice-Chair
Prof Ericka Albaugh
Bowdoin College
Government and Legal Studies
United States
ealbaugh@bowdoin.edu
Secretary
Prof Peter Ives
University of Winnipeg
Political Science
Canada
p.ives@uwinnipeg.ca
Officers
Prof. Bartosz Hordecki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, bartosz.hordecki@amu.edu.pl
Prof. Rudi Janssens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, rudi.janssens@vub.ac.be
Prof. Elise Pizzi, University of Iowa, United States, elise-pizzi@uiowa.edu
Dr. Yael Peled, Montréal, Canada, yael.a.peled@gmail.com
Prof. Kyoko Motobayashi, Ochanomizu University, Japan, motobayashi.kyoko@ocha.ac.jp
Mr Till Burckhardt, Université de Genève, Switzerland, tb@tillja.com
Prof. Mike Medeiros, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, m.medeiros@uva.nl
Background
Granted research committee status in 2000; committee created in January 2001.
Objectives
The purpose of the committee is to study the politics of language; more specifically to study:
- the relations of power that inflect the choice and use of language(s) in international, national, regional, and local polities, societies and communities;
- the origins, structures, implementation, effects and consequences of language regimes;
- the politics of linguistic minorities, including goals, strategies, motivations and mobilization;
by
- using the normative and empirical tools of analysis in political science;
- developing mid-level theories regarding language and democracy, citizenship, globalization and other critical issues.
