Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Previous lectures

Socio economic participation of minorities in relation to their right to (respect for) identity
The first Minority Research Network (MRN) conference
Venue: Erasmus University Rotterdam (M-Building, M2-10)
The Netherlands
Date: 27, 28 and 29 October 2010

43rd BAAL Annual Conference
Applied Linguistics: Global and Local
British Association for Applied Linguistics
"Crimes against humanity in education, and applied linguistics - corporate globalisation or geopolitical knowledge glocalisation?"
(Plenary paper)
Venue: University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Date: 9 - 11 September 2010

"The Real California Gold"
Indigenous & Immigrant Heritage Languages of California.
"The human right to a mother tongue in revitalising Indigenous languages"
(Plenary paper)
Venue: University of California, Davis
Date: May 7-8, 2010
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New trends in Uralistics: typology, syntax, sociolinguistics
An international conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Finno-Ugristics of the University of Szeged, Hungary.
The objective of the conference is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the typological, syntactic or sociolinguistic study of the Uralic languages, to exchange ideas across approaches, theories, methodologies. The conference is intended to bridge the gap between theoretical, typological, sociolinguistic approaches in general and Uralic studies, and help to initiate new research projects or collaborations.
Venue: Department of Finno-Ugristics in Szeged, Hungary
Date: from 3 to 5 September, 2009

The ecolinguistic relationship between biodiversity and linguistic diversity - is linguistic homogenisation ruining the planet?
"The ecolinguistic relationship between linguistic diversity and biodiversity is a complex fairly recent area or research. There are serious threats to both types of diversity, and linguistic diversity is disappearing relatively much faster than biodiversity. The maintenance of diversity is counteracted by the increasing dominance of English and other killer languages. Schools participate, through assimilationist genocidal education, in processes of linguistic capital dispossession, and reproduction of poverty Much of the knowledge about how to maintain the world's biodiversity is encoded in the small Indigenous and local languages. With the disappearance of the languages, this knowledge will also disappear. The linguistic homogenisation may thus be destroying the prerequisites for human life on earth. Education and mass media are the most important direct causal factors in the disappearance of languages; structural political factors are behind them. [...]"
Venue: The Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest VI. Benczúr u. 33., Hungary
Date: 1 September 2009

Minority Language in Today's Global Society:
Perspectives in Mother Tongue Education
In 2008, Trace Foundation successfully launched a new lecture series program in New York City, with the first series entitled, Minority Language in Today's Global Society. The lecture series program creates a forum for exchange and discussion between Tibetan specialists and other regional, disciplinary, and professional experts on a variety of issues, with the aim of promoting greater insights, cooperation, and new activities in the work of all those involved. This second lecture in this series will focus on the topic of mother tongue education and will take place on February 21-22, 2009, International Mother Language Day.
Venue: Both sessions will take place at Trace Foundation & Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library, 132 Perry Street, 2B, New York, NY 10014
Date: Day 1: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Day 2: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:00a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Minorities and Access to Education.
Invited notes for the (UN) Forum on Minority Issues, September 2008

Linguistic Human Rights in Education
Lecture at The City University of New York, organized by the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) and the Participatory Action Research Collective at the CUNY Graduate Center
Venue: ROOM Concourse level 198, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34 and 35 St.)
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:30 PM

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(video: Professor Constance Beutel)

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