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Conference: Research in the Economics of Language - How Should an Economist Talk to Linguists?

CIRANO

Monday 14 May 2018
From 11:30AM To 1PM

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Conference by François Grin (University of Geneva)

François Grin

François Grin (1959) obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Geneva in 1989. He then continued his teaching and research activities at the Department of Economics at the University of Montreal, then at the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington in Seattle and again at the Department of Political Economy at the University of Geneva. From 1998 to 2001, François Grin was Deputy Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg (Germany), a research centre dedicated to the study of majority-minority relations across Europe. In 2001, François Grin became Deputy Director of the Educational Research Department (SRED) of the Department of Public Education of the Canton of Geneva. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Economics at the School of Translation and Interpretation (now the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation) of the University of Geneva, where he heads the "Observatoire Économie - Langues - Formation" (ELF). Since 2001, he has also taught ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity management as a visiting professor at the University of Italian-speaking Switzerland (USI) in Lugano. He has taught courses on the same subject in various other programmes or institutions, including the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. François Grin specializes in language economics, education economics, and public policy evaluation in these fields. He is the author of more than 200 articles, book chapters, books and research reports. He is a member of the editorial or scientific committee of journals such as Language Problems and Language Planning, Language Policy, Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies and Français & Socitété. He is also a member of the scientific committee of collections devoted to language policy issues at publishing houses such as Multilingual Matters and John Benjamins. He has worked as an expert, consultant or advisor to national or regional authorities in Switzerland, France, Spain, Ireland and New Zealand, as well as for international organisations (European Commission, Council of Europe, World Bank Institute, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) and non-governmental organisations. He co-directed the European Commission's evaluation project Support for Minority Languages in Europe ("SMiLE") and directed several research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on linguistic or educational issues. He was vice-coordinator of the Integrated Project DYLAN ("Language Dynamics and Diversity Management") funded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Programme (2006-2011) and member of the Scientific Committee of the SUS.DIV ("Sustainable Diversity") Network of Excellence. In the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, he is coordinator of the MIME project ("Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe", 2014-2018), which brings together 22 partner institutions in 16 European countries. François Grin is the current president of the Delegation for the French Language of French-speaking Switzerland (DLF); he is a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

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Program

11:30 - 12:00
Welcome and Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Presentation

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada

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