Presentation
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Date:
September 21, 2022
Time:
07:00 PM
Fee:
Free
Location:
Aula, University of Aruba & Zoom (online)
Papiamentu and the European Charter for Regional or Minor Languages
From the theoretical work of writing a PhD to helping grassroots organizations & rocket science legal arguments.
In a series of lectures on the role of languages in society, the UA chair on
Translingual practices in educational and professional context
presents:
Dr. Bastiaan D. van der Velden
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Dr. Bastiaan D. van der Velden is a lecturer at the Open University, Heerlen, Netherlands, where he teaches Legal History and Private Law. Since 2008 he has been working with Akademia Papiamentu (Bonaire) and SPIKA (NL) on the recognition of Papiamentu under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. He published a legal history of Curaçao in 2011.
After the public defense of his dissertation on the use of the Frisian language in administration and judiciary (Waar gaan we heen met het Fries?, 2004), he got involved in 2007 in the search for legal arguments to protect Papiamentu. In the new political structure of the Netherlands, which came into effect on 10-10-10, the Netherlands has become responsible for two new regional languages. English and Papiamentu, languages spoken on the BES islands, can be regarded as regional languages historically spoken in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands next to Frisian, also Low Saxon, Limburgish, Roma languages and Yiddish are protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of the Council of Europe. Where Frisian is protected in the Netherlands under part III of the European Charter, there is currently (Aug 2022) a request for advice from the Dutch government pending at the Council of State to declare part III of the Charter applicable to Papiamentu on Bonaire, and part II in the rest of the Netherlands (see also his article ‘Nos ta papia Papiamentu’ in the NJB, 2021, no 21, also at https://ou-nl.academia.edu/bastiaandavidvandervelden).
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