Juggling languages and other cultures
Presentation of a research project as part of the "Jeudis de la Maison Suger", a residents' research seminar.
Claire Demesmay is an expert in Franco-German cooperation, currently professor at the Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po Paris and associate researcher at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. She holds a doctorate in political philosophy from the Sorbonne - Paris 4 University and the Technical University of Berlin, and a teaching qualification in Germanic Studies. Her research focuses on Franco-German cooperation in Europe, the European and foreign policies of France and Germany, and the attitudes of young people and the representations of social actors.
Presentation of the project
"Intra-European mobility leads to human encounters, resulting in mixed couples, themselves at the origin of bi-/plural-national families. These migrants of a new kind are part of a still recent and very small migratory phenomenon, still little studied. Given the strong geopolitical dimension of languages and cultures, European identity is addressed here through the transmission, acquisition and management of bi-/plurilingual and bi-/pluricultural skills. The analysis is based on interviews with Franco-German families in Paris and Berlin, both as products and players in European integration. What's more, given the specific nature of Franco-German relations in the European context, we can assume that these families recognize their own identity, which they construct and express through specific linguistic and cultural practices."
Speakers
- Claire Demesmay is an expert in Franco-German cooperation, currently professor at the Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po Paris and associate researcher at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin
- Discussant: Viktoria Lühr is a specialist in discourse analysis and works on issues of interculturality and intercultural communication. - CIERA
Thursday, 6th March 2025
*Seminar in French*
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Maison Suger
16-18 Rue Suger
Paris 6
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Free entrance
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