Speaker: Robert Phillipson (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (University of Roskilde, Denmark)

Lecture 1: Language policy and language planning

Date: October 28, 2015 – Wednesday

Time: 18:00-20:15

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Lecture 2: Language policy in schools

Date: October 29, 2015 – Thursday

Time: 13:45-16:00

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Lecture 3: English past, present – and future?

Date: October 30, 2015 – Friday

Time: 13:45-16:00

Venue: R606, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Lecture 4: Language planning and language rights

Date: November 2, 2015 – Monday

Time: 18:00-20:15

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Lecture 5: Languages for ‘international’ purposes

Date: November 5, 2015 – Thursday

Time: 13:45-16:00

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Lecture 6: Planning for language ecology

Date: November 6, 2015 –Friday

Time: 13:45-16:00

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Language: English

Speaker Biography: Dr. Robert Phillipson is Research Professor at Copenhagen Business School's Department of English. He is perhaps best known for writing Linguistic Imperialism and English-Only Europe: Challenging Language Policy. He graduated as an undergraduate from Cambridge University. He got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and his interests include language pedagogy, language policy, and linguistic human rights.

Phillipson was awarded the Linguapax Prize in 2010, regarded as "renowned advocates of multilingual education as a factor of peace and of linguistic rights against cultural and linguistic homogenization processes". Phillipson is known internationally for denouncing linguistic imperialism, and as a specialist of relations between language and power and the dynamics of linguistic domination / subordination.

Dr Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Emerita, guest researcher at the Department of Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde, Denmark and visiting professor at Åbo Akademi University, Department of Education, Finland, had a bilingual upbringing in Finnish and Swedish in Finland. She has been actively involved with minorities’ struggle for language rights for over five decades.

Her main research interests are in linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), bilingualism and multilingual education, linguistic imperialism and the subtractive spread of English, support for endangered languages, and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity. She is the recipient of the Linguapax Award and the Carl Axel Gottlund Award in 2003.