In this talk, Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects on global and local politics, economics, media, education, and business. From the inner workings of the European Union to linguistic battles over influence in Africa, Salomone draws on a wealth of research to tell the complex story of English—and to argue for English not as a force for domination but as a core component of multilingualism and the transcendence of linguistic and cultural borders.

Rosemary Salomone, the Kenneth Wang Professor at St. John's University School of Law, is a linguist, a lawyer, and a professor of constitutional, administrative, and comparative law. She has lectured internationally and published extensively on education law and policy, comparative equality, and language rights. Before joining the legal academy, she taught English to international students at Columbia University, developed bilingual programs for immigrant students in New York City, and was a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she taught education law and language policy.

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