{"id":9951,"title":"Considering Monoculture | Philippe Van Parijs","date_begin":"2020-02-28T00:00:00.000+01:00","date_end":"2020-02-28T00:00:00.000+01:00","location":{"readable":"Brussel","latitude":null,"longitude":null},"assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/066/632/large/M_HKA_Monoculture-5455.jpg?1607072806","poster_credits":"(c)Philippe Van Parijs - foto: M HKA / Bram Goots, 2020"},"translations":[{"locale":"en","name":"Considering Monoculture | Philippe Van Parijs","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTitle:\u0026nbsp;Do thriving democracies need to be monolingual and monocultural?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nIn order to form a thriving political community, do we need to be a people, a nation, defined by a common culture and therefore also a common language? If so, how can this be reconciled for countries, and especially cities, with increasingly diverse and fluid populations? If not, what else is needed for a workable democracy? These questions will be addressed with special reference to Brussels, Belgium and the European Union.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eBio:\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;Philippe Van Parijs is a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven and a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He was the founding director of Louvain\u0026rsquo;s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. He coordinates (with A. Housen and N. Foster) the Marnix Plan for a Multilingual Brussels and (with P. De Grauwe) the Re-Bel initiative. His books include\u003cem\u003e Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity\u003c/em\u003e (Brussels 2003), L\u003cem\u003einguistic Justice for Europe and for the World\u003c/em\u003e (Oxford 2011), \u003cem\u003eBasic Income\u003c/em\u003e (Harvard 2017, with Y. Vanderborght) and \u003cem\u003eBelgium: Een utopie voor onze tijd\u003c/em\u003e (Brussels \u0026amp; Antwerp, 2018).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","name":"Considering Monoculture | Philippe Van Parijs","short_description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo thriving democracies need to be bilingual and monocultural?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTitle:\u0026nbsp;Do thriving democracies need to be monolingual and monocultural?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nIn order to form a thriving political community, do we need to be a people, a nation, defined by a common culture and therefore also a common language? If so, how can this be reconciled for countries, and especially cities, with increasingly diverse and fluid populations? If not, what else is needed for a workable democracy? These questions will be addressed with special reference to Brussels, Belgium and the European Union.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eBio:\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;Philippe Van Parijs is a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven and a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He was the founding director of Louvain\u0026rsquo;s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. He coordinates (with A. Housen and N. Foster) the Marnix Plan for a Multilingual Brussels and (with P. De Grauwe) the Re-Bel initiative. His books include\u003cem\u003e Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity\u003c/em\u003e (Brussels 2003), L\u003cem\u003einguistic Justice for Europe and for the World\u003c/em\u003e (Oxford 2011), \u003cem\u003eBasic Income\u003c/em\u003e (Harvard 2017, with Y. Vanderborght) and \u003cem\u003eBelgium: Een utopie voor onze tijd\u003c/em\u003e (Brussels \u0026amp; Antwerp, 2018).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","name":"Considering Monoculture | Philippe Van Parijs","short_description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo thriving democracies need to be bilingual and monocultural?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTitle:\u0026nbsp;Do thriving democracies need to be monolingual and monocultural?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nIn order to form a thriving political community, do we need to be a people, a nation, defined by a common culture and therefore also a common language? If so, how can this be reconciled for countries, and especially cities, with increasingly diverse and fluid populations? If not, what else is needed for a workable democracy? These questions will be addressed with special reference to Brussels, Belgium and the European Union.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eBio:\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;Philippe Van Parijs is a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven and a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He was the founding director of Louvain\u0026rsquo;s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. He coordinates (with A. Housen and N. Foster) the Marnix Plan for a Multilingual Brussels and (with P. De Grauwe) the Re-Bel initiative. His books include\u003cem\u003e Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity\u003c/em\u003e (Brussels 2003), L\u003cem\u003einguistic Justice for Europe and for the World\u003c/em\u003e (Oxford 2011), \u003cem\u003eBasic Income\u003c/em\u003e (Harvard 2017, with Y. Vanderborght) and \u003cem\u003eBelgium: Een utopie voor onze tijd\u003c/em\u003e (Brussels \u0026amp; Antwerp, 2018).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[],"items":[]}