Course encompassed in the 36^th Summer University of Gandia

Overview:

The objective of the course is to understand how contemporary nation states face local linguistic diversity and the relationships that it has with territorial organisation. On the basis of the Spanish system of language rights as the main focus of the study, similar models will be compared. There is not a correlation between state models of territorial organisation and recognition of rights for languages minority languages. Nonetheless, minority languages in multilingual nation states tend to be located in a particular region and often the systems of recognition of rights have a territorial dimension that affects several aspects of political power in a complex state (centralized/federal, autonomic/regional). Coordinator: Vicenta Tasa Fuster, professor of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Universitat de València.

PROGRAMME:

Thursday 18^th July

MORNING

10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

“Breaching territorial constitution and crisis of Spanish democracy”

Dr. Javier Pérez Royo, professor of Constitutional Law of the Universidad de Sevilla

12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

“The Valencian proposal of reforming the CE: a federal initiative of constitutional reform”

Dr. Manuel Alcaraz Ramos, professor of Constitutional Right of the Universitat d’Alacant. Minister of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation.

AFTERNOON

5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

“Linguistic hierarchy and linguistic security: Spain and Switzerland”

Professor Vicenta Tasa Fuster, professor of Constitutional Right of the Universitat de València.

Friday 19^th July

MORNING

10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

“Recognition to the linguistic rights in complex states”

Professor Eva Pons Parera, professor of Constitutional Right of the Universitat de Barcelona

12 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“Linguistic public policies as the implementation of rights and the management of conflicts”

Dr. Anselm Bodoque Arribas, professor of Political Sciences and Administration of the Universitat de València