Politicians, pundits, journalists, and many academics in the Anglophone and not only Anglophone West tend to discuss and encourage political (i.e., public) language on monolingual terms. The default is to speak of "political language" in the singular and to marshal the language of a given country's white majority as the unquestioned default. Little could be more inequitable and disenfranchising when most societies have long been multilingual on account of to Indigenous survivance and migration. Learn more at https://politicallang.wixsite.com/join/program

https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/693086546?occurrence=1587679200000

When

4/24/2020

10 am - 5 pm

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Location

virtual

Sponsored by

Comparative Literature Program, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program (LALACS), Leslie Center for the Humanities, Philosophy Department, Rockefeller Center

Audience

Public

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Registration required

Antifascist Language in Multilingual Societies: A Virtual Symposium