Seminar: Language and Society, 20 August

Last updated:2014-08-17

Topic: Language and Society
Invited Speaker: Professor Abram de Swaan from University of Amsterdam

Time: 9:30-11:30AM, Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Venue: Room 210, School of Foreign Languaes Building, South Campus

Organizer: Faculty of Foreign Languages and International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University

Introduction of Speaker:
Abram de Swaan (Amsterdam, January 8, 1942) is emeritus University Professor of social science (universiteitshoogleraar) at the University of Amsterdam, where he has been professor of sociology since 1973. He was dean of the Amsterdam School of Social science Research since its foundation in 1987 until 1997 and has been its chairman since. He has been an editor of the general cultural review De Gids (est. 1837) from 1969 to 1991 and contributed to many cultural and professional periodicals. For many years he contributed a weekly column to the national daily NRC/Handelsblad.

Introduction Source: Personal Webpage of Abram de Swaan