The More Languages, The More English: On the Language Constellation in the European Union
Thursday 09 October, 2014
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Columbia University, The Heyman Center
2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
Abram de Swaan is Emeritus University Professor of Social Science (universiteitshoogleraar) at the University of Amsterdam, where he has been Professor of Sociology since 1973. He was Dean of the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research since its foundation in 1987 until 1997 and has been its chairman since. He has been an editor of the general cultural review, De Gids (est. 1837) from 1969 to 1991 and contributed to many cultural and professional periodicals. For many years he contributed a weekly column to the national daily NRC/Handelsblad.
Join Professor de Swaan and he talks about the language constellation of the European Union.