*’The more languages, the more English’: On the Language Constellation in the EU*
October 9, 2014
6:00-7:30PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities
Speaker: Abram de Swaan, Emeritus University Professor of Social Science, University of Amsterdam
Abram de Swaan is Emeritus University Professor of Social Science 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.
This event is sponsored by the Blinken European Institute and is part of the BEI Seminar.