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Prof.
Astrid Von Busekist
Task 1.1
National perspectives on diversity
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The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) is a self-governing research university specialised in the social-economic sciences and the humanities with an enrolment of 11,000, including 40% of foreign students from more than 130 countries. Sciences Po is the leading research university in the social sciences in France, with 400 academic partnerships with universities around the world. Sciences Po is home to a doctoral school offering seven graduate programs. 17 of the Sciences Po research teams have been involved in FP6, and around 30 in FP7. With its million-volume collection the library is the richest in humanities and social sciences in continental Europe. The active publishing house with more than 1000 titles in its catalogue and six academic journals, Les Presses de Sciences Po, disseminates the research results of its ten research centres, five of which are closely linked to the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). One of them, the CERI (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales) brings together experts on international relations and area-studies specialists of various disciplinary backgrounds including political science, history, economics, sociology and anthropology. The centre’s faculty currently consists of over fifty fellows and a dozen research associates. The centre maintains a state-of-the-art website (www.ceri-sciences-po.org).
Task in the project
Partner Sciences Po will lead task 1.1 "National perspectives on diversity" and, thanks in particular to its anchoring at the CERI with its fifty research fellows, will be responsible for international comparisons of political and institutional approaches to the management of diversity, with an emphasis on interpreting the political meaning of the parallels and the contrasts between European and non-European cases, and provide corresponding background knowledge to other teams (mainly work packages 1 and 5)
Staff
  • Prof. Astrid von Busekist
  • Jean-François Grégoire
Experience
Astrid von Busekist has highly targeted expertise as a renowned specialist in language policies from the perspective of political theory, with an emphasis on the role of political cultures. She has been involved in numerous collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects conducted in French, English and German. Her scientific record is reflected in major publications which include several theme issues of scholarly journals. She is the current chief editor of the journal Raisons Politiques, an interdisciplinary journal whose board includes historians, philosophers, sociologists and economists, and was one of its co-founders in 1999.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).