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Building: Faculty of Arts, Floor: 2, Room: FA217
Thursday 15:50 - 17:30 CEST (08/09/2016)
Arrangements for managing multilingual and ethno-linguistic relations within states are far from consensual. Conflicting pairs of principles along with diverging state interests account for this gap. There are those who stand by non-territorial rights for ethno-linguistic groups within their historic territories. On the other hand, there are those who consider primordial the territorial integrity of the existing states. Hence, this leads to a recurrent tension in international law between the right to self-determination of peoples and the territorial integrity of states. A way-out of this situation would be to apply principles of self-determination and language policy requirements in terms of territorial or personal arrangements. This panel will explore to discuss both the personal and the territorial perspectives as possible solutions. The theoretical argumentations will be illustrated with relevant case studies both from the Western parts of Europe, like Belgium, Switzerland, the Basque Country, Ireland and the Central- and Eastern European parts of the European continent, such as the Baltic States, Vojvodina, Transylvania and Kosovo.
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Language-based reserved seats and descriptive representation of citizens of immigrant origin in Brussels | View Paper Details |
The politics of language policy in Slovak-Hungarian relations | View Paper Details |
Territoriality, ethno-linguistic Minorities and Inclusion in a multilingual Europe | View Paper Details |
Multilingual law-making and the conceptualization of the Swiss language regime | View Paper Details |