Chair
Dr. Jean-François Dupré, Université TÉLUQ
jfdupre@connect.hku.hk
Université TÉLUQ
Humanities, Letters and Communication
915 du Sablé
Terrebonne, QC, J6X 1K1
Canada
Vice-Chair
Prof. Ericka Albaugh, Bowdoin College
ealbaugh@bowdoin.edu
Bowdoin College
Government and Legal Studies
Hubbard Hall - 209A, 255 Maine Street
Brunswick, Maine, 04011
United States
Secretary
Prof. Peter Ives, University of Winnipeg
p.ives@uwinnipeg.ca
University of Winnipeg
6L10 Lockhart Hall, 515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9
Canada
Board members
Till Burkckhardt, Université de Genève, Switzerland, tillja@gmail.com
Dr. Bartosz Hordecki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, bartosz.hordecki@amu.edu.pl
Miranda Huron, Capilanou University, Canada, mirandahuron@capilanou.ca
Dr. Huw Lewis, Aberystwyth University, U.K., hhl@aber.ac.uk
Dr. Kyoko Motobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan, kmotobayashi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Roberta de Oliveira Soares, University of Montreal, Canada, roberta.de.oliveira.soares@umontreal.ca
Dr. Yael Peled, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, peled@mmg.mpg.de
Dr. Elise Pizzi, University of Iowa, United States, elise-pizzi@uiowa.edu
Isabela Rocha, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil, isabelarocha.contato@gmail.com
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.
