Prof.
László Marácz
László Marácz
WP 1 lead
Politics – Language, Society, and Power
Task 1.2
Politics of language policies
Assoc. Prof.
Virginie Mamadouh
Virginie Mamadouh
Task 2.3
Urban multilingualism
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences includes the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), home to several research structures, in particular the Centre of Urban Studies (CUS). CUS is a multidisciplinary centre bringing together social and political scientists, especially human geographers, urban and regional planners, urban sociologists, demographers, and scholars in the fields of migration studies and development studies.
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences includes the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), that unites all social science research of the UvA. It is home to several research structures, in particular the Centre of Urban Studies (CUS). CUS is a multidisciplinary centre bringing together social and political scientists, especially human geographers, urban and regional planners, urban sociologists, demographers, and scholars in the fields of migration studies and development studies.
Task in the project
Department of European Studies will play an active role in MIME as first Deputy coordinator in the management and steering of the MIME project, in permanent cooperation with the Project coordinator (Université de Genève), the second Deputy coordinator (Univerza v Ljubljani) and partner SCIPROM. At the research level, the Department of European Studies will be in charge of the management of work package 1 - “Politics” and lead task 1.2 on “Politics of language policies”.
Staff
- Prof. László Maracz
- Christopher Houtkamp
Experience
The Deputy Project Coordinator has considerable experience in project management, and has coordinated several educational and scientific exchange programmes (1995-2009) between the Netherlands and Central and Eastern Europe candidate countries. He is the coordinator of TOOLKIT, a European research network on transnational communication in Europe sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). A linguist by training, he is actively involved in several scientific networks, and has developed an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research in the field of European Studies.
Task in the project
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research / Centre for Urban Studies will contribute to Work package 2 “society” and lead Task 2.3 on “Urban multilingualism”, investigating bottom-up responses to linguistic diversity and issues of inclusion in European cities. It will provide background information on these processes to teams in other work packages, particularly in work packages 3, 4 and 5.
Staff
- Assoc. Prof. Virginie Mamadouh
- Nesrin El Ayadi
- Clotilde Bonfiglioli (visiting researcher)
Experience
The task leader has thorough, hands-on expertise in various aspects of multilingualism and multiculturalism through previous research fellowships in European Union institutions (European Parliament) and missions for the City of Amsterdam on issues of migration and integration. As a political, cultural and urban geographer, she has a long experience of complex inter- and multidisciplinary projects at different scale levels on socially sensitive issues. She has been studying European multilingualism for many years and was one of the organisers of the seminal 1998 Oegstgeest conference of the European Cultural Foundation Which language for Europe? She is a member of TOOLKIT, a European research network on transnational communication in Europe.