Andrew Shorten, Department of PPA, at the Language Policy Forum 2026

On Wednesday, 22 April, Andrew Shorten (Department of PPA) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the Language Policy Forum 2026 at the Complutense University of Madrid. His lecture, ‘Mediating Multilingual Democracy’, compared some different ways to facilitate a variety of democratic practices in multilingual settings as well as the contributions these might make to solving the key democratic problems of empowered inclusion and collective understanding.