Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture includes studies that investigate political, social and cultural processes from a linguistic/discourse-analytic point of view. Th e series includes monographs and edited volumes which combine language-based approaches with disciplines concerned with human interaction — disciplines such as political science, international relations, social psychology, social anthropology, sociology, economics, and race and gender studies. For further information please download the list of publications.

The trilingual Free University of Bozen-Bolzano will host the third International Conference on “Bi- and Multilingual Universities” on 20-22 September 2007, with the goal of bringing together scholars, instructors, university leaders and administrative personnel working in bi- and multilingual universities, so as to provide them with a terrain for scientific and didactic discussion, comparison of practices, approaches and results and networking opportunities.

The second conference of the consortium is scheduled for 21 and 22 May 2007 in Basel.

The first version of the DYLAN web site was released to the public today. The web site will be the best place to stay up to date with the latest news from the project

The Swiss Newspaper Le Temps published an article about the DYLAN project the day after the kick-off meeting was held. The PDf file can be found here (login required) or here (no login)

The Kick-off meeting of the DYLAN project was held in Lausanne on 30 and 31 October