BIOGRAPHIES
 

	MOHAMED BENRABAH (Grenoble) né en Algérie, Ph.D en linguistique de l'Université de Londres, enseignant à l'Université d'Oran (Algérie) de 1978 à 1994. Depuis septembre 1994, il est maître de conférences à l'Université Grenoble III. Il est l'auteur de Langue et pouvoir en Algérie. Histoire d'un traumatisme linguistique (Éditions Séguier, 1999). The title of his presentation at the January colloquium will be "L'anglais langue internationale : une lingua franca pour véhiculer quoi au juste".
	ROLANDE BORRELLY (Grenoble), Professeur d’économie au Département de LEA à l Université Stendhal de Grenoble, éditeur d’Economie Appliquée. A publié Les disparités sectorielles du taux de profit, PUG, 1975, diverses contributions dans Crise et Régulation, vol. 1 et 2 (GRREC, Grenoble 1985 et 1989)  . Après avoir étudié la crise de l’économie internationale (" Le Discours sur le libre-echange, cent cinquante ans après ", in G. Dumènil, D. Levy, eds., Le triangle infernal, Crise, mondialisation, financialisation, PFU, Paris 1995), elle travaille actuellement sur les migrations internationales.
	DANIEL BOUGNOUX (Grenoble)
	PIERRE BROUE (Grenoble) est professeur émérite des Universités (Mendès-France, IEP). Il a écrit sur les révolutions du XXe siècle et ses travaux les plus connus sont ses volumes sur la Guerre d'Espagne, ses biographies de Trotsky et de Rakovsky, son Histoire de la Révolution allemande 1918-23 (sa thèse) et son Histoire de l'Internationale communiste. Il dirige deux revues trimestrielles, Le Marxisme aujourd'hui et Cahiers Léon Trotsky.
	ELISABETH CHAMORAND (Grenoble) is maître de conference emeritus at Stendhal Univerity. She received her Ph.D from the University of Paris-8 in 1974, and has taught courses in American social history at both French and American universities. In 1978-79 she taught history in the Department of Thematic studies at John Jay College(CUNY). Her recent research interests include government health policy in the US ( she published a book on the American health system, Le sysème des santés des États-Unis, 1996) and, in the past year, she has focused on the social problem of "access to medicines in the US and in developing countries."
	JEROME DUMOULIN (Grenoble) est Chargé de Recherches au CNRS, à l’Université Pierre Mendès-France où il a obtenu son doctorat d’économie en 1976. Il travaille principalement sur l’économie de la santé dans les pays en développement, et depuis 1984 spécialement sur la question des médicaments dans les pays en développement. Le thème actuel de ses recherches porte sur les prix des médicaments contre le Sida dans le Monde, la stratégie des firmes pharmaceutiques et l’OMC. Il collabore avec l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, Médecins Sans Frontière, et d’autres ONG de défense des consommateurs au niveau international.
	FRANCIS FEELEY (Grenoble) is founder and director of the Grenoble research center, "CIESIMSA". He has taught courses in American and French social history at institutions of higher education in the United States, France, and the Former Soviet Union. He is the author of 5 books, including America's Concentration Camps During World War II: Social Science and the Japanese American Internment (University Press of the South, 1999) with a preface by Howard Zinn, And The Wisdom to Know the Difference, Conversations with Residents of Three Cities: San Francisco, CA, Paris, France, and Minsk, Belarus (World Heritage Press, 1998) with a preface by Theodore Zeldin, and A Strategy of Dominance: History of an American Concentration Camp in Pomona, California (Brandywine Press, 1995), as well as more than a dozen essays and articles on French and American social history, including "Pensée unique, assiette unique: la stratégie mondiale de McDonald's," in Sources, Revue d'études anglophones (No.7, automne 1999, Orléans: Presses universitaires d'Orléans). In the 1980s, he worked as a labor union organizer for the California Education Association and served as the representative of the American Federation of Teachers on the San Diego/Imperial Counties Labor Council. Today, Francis Feeley is professor of American Studies at Stendhal University in Grenoble, where he lives with his wife and two children.
	CHRISTIAN LEBLOND (Grenoble) est maître de conférences à l'Université Stendhal-Grenoble III. Ancien élève de l'ENS Fontenay, il est titulaire d'une agrégation et d'un doctorat européen (Genève-Nice). Sa recherche porte sur le discours économique et la politique commerciale des Etats-Unis, en s'attachant aux aspects idéologiques et indentitaires.
	PATRICK MORENO (Grenoble) is currently a Maître de Langue at the UFR d’ Etudes Anglophone, Université de Grenoble-III. He has an M. Phil. From Columbia University (1996). His research in recent years has centered on topics relating to Modern Art and French Literature, namely "the notion of revolutionary art in André Breton and Leon Trotsky, " "the pictorial metaphore in the novels of Louis Aragon, " and more recently questions of "race " in postmodern art criticism. Other interests include United States-Latin American relations since the Regan administration.
	MARC OLLIVIER (Grenoble) is a former Researcher in the Social Science Devision at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He received his degree in Management and Accounting from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and studied law and economics at the University of Paris-I, where he received his Ph.D. in Economics. He has worked as a researcher, teacher (and consultant for ILO, FAO and IBRD) in the fields of Agricultural Economics, International Relationships and Development Strategies. He has published many articles, essays, and three books on the development problems in Morokko, Algeria, Angola and Mozambique. He served President of a Research Center in the Social Sciences University in Grenoble (Centre de Recherche en Informatique Appliquée aux Sciences Sociales) and has solid experience in research management and policy. For 20 years he was on the Administrative Board of the main French Union of Scientific Researchers and was a Founding member of INES (International Network of Engineers and Scientists for global responsibility). He is also a member of ATTAC in the Grenoble section of this French NGO.
	Mathieu O'Neil (Grenoble) is maître de conférence in American Studies at Stendhal University. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, he received his Ph.D. from Université Paris 7 in 1996. After surveying contemporary underground publication networks in the San Francisco Bay Area, he analyzed marginal identity-building processes and parallel markets. He has produced art exhibitions and catalogues (out of nowhere, Paris; mixage, Singapore) and has contributed articles on social control, new technologies and utopian urban planning to Le Monde diplomatique, Manière de voir, Parpaings and Factsheet 5. He is currently working on do-it-yourself communication projects.
	MICHAEL ALBERT (Boston) is co-founder and editor at South End Press and later Z Magazine. He was politicized in the 1960s, participated in diverse New Left movements and associated projects. He has participated in a variety of political organizations and social movements, and now spends most of his time working on the Internet Project, ZNet. Albert is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles, and co-author, with Robin Hahnel, of the economic vision, Participatory Economics (Princeton University Press, 1991).
	TARIQ ALI (London) is a longstanding editor of the New Left Review in England. He has written more than a dozen books on history, politics and biography, which have been translated into many languages. In 1990 he began to write fiction. His novel, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, now part of his "Islamic Quintet", is an account of the decline of Muslim civilisation in Spain. It was awarded the Archbishop San Clemente del Instituto Rosalia de Castro Prize for the Best Foreign Language Fiction published in Spain in 1994. Ali's political novel, Fear of Mirror, deals with the "fall of Communism" and spans the 20th century, taking place in Berlin, Paris and Moscow. He continues to write political fiction and screenplays, as well as plays for stage and television.
	JOHN CLARK (New Orleans) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans and chairs the Loyola Environmental Studies Program. He has written extensively in the areas of ecological philosophy, environmental ethics, political ecology and anarchist theory. He has been active in the green movement for many years and is a member of the IWW. He organized Freeport Watch, an organization that monitors and works against ecocide and cultural genocide in West Papua by Freeport McMoran, one of the world's largest mining corporations.
	RONALD CREAGH (Montpellier) est professeur émérite à l'Université de Montpellier. Il est auteur d'ouvrages sur les Français aux Etats-Unis, sur le mouvement anarchiste américain, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes et de comités de rédaction de diverses revues.
	MARIANNE DEBOUZY (Paris)
	DOUGLAS DOWD (San Francisco) began teaching economics at UC Berkeley in 1949. He taught at Cornell University, where he served as Department Chair until 1971. Since then, he has been on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, for more than a decade, and has taught at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, and the State Universities of San Francisco and San Jose. For 25 years he has taught and continues to teach community classes (modeled on R.H.Tawney's workers' education classes) in San Francisco. He also hosts a popular radio program in the Bay Area, on Pacifica Radio. His most influential books include Thorstein Veblen (1964/2000), U.S. Capitalist Development Since 1776: Of, By, and For Which People? (1993). Blues for America: A Critique, A Lament, and Some Memories (1997), and Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History (2000). Among Professor Dowd's many popular and professional articles, the latest was presented at the annual URPE meetings (2001), "Depths below Depths: the intensification, multiplication, and spread of capitalism's destructive force from Marx's time to ours." (In press, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2002).
	RICHARD B. DU BOFF (Philadelphia) is Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor of Economics at Bryn Mawr College. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Lincoln University, and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, Holland). Richard Du Boff is the author of several works on political economy, notably Accumulation and Power. An Economic History of the United States (1989) and "Business Ideology and Foreign Policy: the National Security Council and Vietnam," in The Pentagon Papers, Essays edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn (1972). His articles have appeared in Economic History Review, French Historical Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Communication and other professional journals, as well as in Monthly Review, Dollars and Sense, Challenge, and Commonweal. Publications on "globalization" issues include "Globalization and Wages. The Down Escalator," Dollars and Sense, September/October 1997; "Mergers, Concentration, and the Erosion of Democracy," Monthly Review, May 2001, with Edward Herman; and "NAFTA and Economic Integration in North America: Regional or Global?" in Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism, edited by V. Mosco and Dan Schiller (2001).
	FERRUCCIO GAMBINO (Padua, Italy) is an Associate Professor in Sociology of labour at the University of Padova, Italy. His interest in the mobility of workers and capital dates back from the early 1970's. He wrote an essay on British Ford in 1970, and an essay on class composition and U.S. direct investments abroad in 1975. Since the 1980's he has studied working class displacements, migrations and social movements, some of the results of which were published in "W.E.B. DuBois and Black Reconstruction," in Dirk Hoerder's book, American Labor and Immigration History 1877-1920s (University of Illinois Press, 1983), "The Transgression of a Laborer: Malcolm X in the Wilderness of America" (Radical History Review, No. 55 (Winter 1993), "Migrants in the Storm: Flows of Migrants and Petrodollars" in Altreragioni , No. 1, 1992 (in Italian, German translation.: "Migranten in Sturm," in Midnight Oil, Arbeit, Energie, Krieg, Sisina Verlag, 1993). He has edited Malcolm X's last speeches in Italian ( Malcolm X, L'ultima battaglia, Manifestolibri, 1993), and has contributed to the past and current debate on migrants in the contemporary world. In 1996 he also published "A Critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School", Common Sense (Edinburgh) , No. 19 (June 1996). He is a member of the editorial board of the Italian journal Altreragioni.
	SUSAN GEORGE (Paris) is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice; she is also Vice-President of ATTAC France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens]. Doctorate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris. Her current work concerns 'globalisation' particularly the World Trade Organization, international financial institutions and North-South relations. She helped to lead the campaign in France to defeat the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and is now engaged in the campaign to democratise the WTO. She is the author of 9 books, including The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 1999); Faith and Credit: the World Bank's Secular Empire (with Fabrizio Sabelli, Penguin, 1994); The Debt Boomerang (Pluto Press, 1992); Ill Fares the Land (Penguin, 1990); A Fate Worse than Debt (Penguin 1987); Food for Beginners (Writers and Readers, 1983); How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger (Penguin 1976). Two books in French are Les Stratèges de la Faim (Editions Grounauer, Geneva 1982) and La Suisse aux Enchères (with Fabrizio Sabelli, Editions Zoé, Geneva 1997). From 1990-95 she served on the Board of Greenpeace International as well as that of Greenpeace France. She is a member of the Group of Lisbon, a Patron of Jubilee 2000 and has acted as a consultant to various United Nations specialised agencies (WHO, IFAD, UNESCO, UNICEF etc.). Susan George is a frequent public speaker, particularly for trade unions and environment/development Non-governmental Organisations in many countries and is often interviewed for press, radio and television.
	J. DIDIER GIRAUD (Pontivy) est né en 1951 à Troyes, en Champagne. Etudes secondaires : Ecole Massillon, Paris. Formation en histoire : Université de Nanterre.Ancien élève de l'Ecole du Louvre. Educateur spécialisé depuis plus de vingt ans. Exerce actuellement à Pontivy, en Bretagne. Est fondateur de l'Association LIBER TERRE, qui oeuvre depuis plusieurs années à la diffusion de la pensée libertaire : expositions, théatre, conférences, édition...Il est co-auteur, avec Marielle GIRAUD, d'une bioographie du philosophe Emile Masson parue en 1991 aux éditions Canope; et de divers articles consacrés principalement au mouvement anarchiste.
	EDWARD GOLDSMITH (London) studied philosophy and economics at Oxford but sees himself as largely self-taught. He is one of the pioneers of the ecological movement in the United Kingdom and for over thirty years has been involved in campaigns against the nuclear industry, large dams, the World Bank, the FAQ, and others. Edward Goldsmith has lectured at universities in many countries, co-founded an International Honors Program Global Ecology Course (in association with Bard College) and remains a member of its staff. He is the founding editor of The Ecologist and is the author of hundreds of articles and many books, including The Case Against the Global Economy (1996, with Jerry Mander), The Way: An Ecological World View (1991), The Great U-Turn (1988), The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams (1984, with Nicholas Hildyard), and A Blueprint for Survival (1972, with Robert Prescott Allen), which triggered the creating of the British Green Party. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known at the Alternative Nobel Prize) in Stockholm in 1991 and the same year was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in France.
	SERGE HALIMI (Paris)received his Ph.D in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Journalist for Le Monde diplomatique, he covers American politics, media issues, and the global economy. He is the author of several books, including more recently Quand la gauche essayait (Arléa, Paris, 2000), L'Opinion, ça se travaille (with Dominique Vidal, Editions Agone, Marseille, 2000, and Les Nouveaux Chiens de garde, Liber-Raisons d'Agir, Paris, 1997 (translated in eight countries). He also contributed to The Mitterrand Era : Policy Alternatives and Political Mobilization in France, MacMillan, London, 1996, and to Unemployment in Europe, Academic Press, London, 1994.
	EDWARD S. HERMAN (Philadelphia) is an economist and analyst of political economy, media, and foreign policy issues. A long-time Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at Penn, he has a regular column entitled Fog Watch in Z Magazine, and has written extensively elsewhere, including authoring or co-authoring 22 books. Among Edward Herman's books are: The Political Economy of Human Rights (two volumes, 1979, with Noam Chomsky); Manufacturing Consent (1988, also with Chomsky); The Real Terror Network (1982); Triumph of the Market (1995); The Myth of the Liberal Media (1999); and Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo War (2000, co-edited with Philip Hammond).
	DIANA JOHNSTONE (Paris), Ph.D., has been a critic of the military arm of United States "globalization" since the Vietnam war, which led her to shift from an academic career to political journalism. As European correspondent of In These Times, she covered the peace movement of the 1980s, analysed in her book, The Politics of Euromissiles: Europe in America's World (Verso, London, 1984). From 1990 to 1996 she served as press officer of the Green Group in the European Parliament. Diana Johnstone is currently completing a book on Yugoslavia, a center of interest since her student days.
	FRED LONIDIER (San Diego) is professor of photography in the Art Department at UC-San Diego. He has been doing photo/text documentary work for the last several years about the workers in the colonias and maquiladoras in Tijuana, BC, Mexico. This represents the most recent project in a 25-year career doing artworks for, by and about the labor movement. It represents his first move outside the U.S. and into the global arena of exploitation and international class struggle. In his presentation, he will show examples of this work and talk about the role of art for social change today.
	JERRY MANDER (San Francisco) is the President of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), an alliance of 60 organizations in 20 countries doing public education and campaigns on global economic issues. The IFG was the principle organizer of many of the large teach-ins and other public education events in Seattle, Washington D.C., New York and elsewhere during 2000. He is also the program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and is a senior fellow at Public Media Center, a non-profit advertising company working only for environmental and social causes. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), In the Absence of the Sacred (1991). He holds a graduate degree (MS) from Columbia University's Business School in international economics. Jerry Mander's most recent book, The Case Against the Global Economy, co-edited with Edward Goldsmith (1996), was awarded the American Political Science Association prize for "Best Book in Ecological Politics" in 1996.
	SUSHIL MITTAL (Chicago) is professor of Hindu Studies and Gandhi Studies at Millikin University in Decatur. He is the author/editor of a number of books on Hinduism and Gandhi; among his forthcoming books include The Hindu World (Routledge), Handbook for the Study of Hinduism (Routledge), Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval India (Lexington), Religions of South Asia: An Introduction (Routledge), and Gandhi: An Introduction (World Heritage). He is the editor of the International Journal of Hindu Studies and Gandhi Studies: An International Journal. He is married to Ritu, and they have two children: Ankur and Aditi.
	ARTHUR MITZMAN (Amsterdam) is emeritus professor of European cultural history at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Rochester (1965-69) and Rutgers University (1986) and gave a lecture series at the Collège de France in 1998. He has published on the history of German sociology, on the social contexts of French thought in the nineteenth century and on psychohistory. His books include The Iron Cage. An Historical Interpretation of Max Weber (Knopf 1970), Sociology and Estrangement, Three Sociologists of Imperial Germany(Knopf 1973), Michelet, Historian, Rebirth and Romanticism in NineteenthCentury France (Yale 1990), and Michelet ou la subversion du passé, Quatre leçons au Collège de France (Boutique de l'histoire 1999). His Prometheus Revisited, Global Justice and Radical Renewal will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2002.
	CHRISTIAN DE MONTLIBERT (Strasbourg) est Professeur de Sociologie à l'Université Marc Bloch à Strasbourg où il poursuit des recherches de sociologie du travail. Il a fait son apprentissage de la recherche au Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale de la Sorbonne, et après a participé très étroitement au développement de la formation continue en France ou Centre de Coopération Économique et Sociale de Nancy (CUCES) puis à l'institut National pour la Formation des Adultes (INFA) comme Maître-assistant chargé de recherches de sociologie de la formation dans tes entreprises. Il a étudié l'évolution de l'emploi des jeunes pour le Conseil de l'Europe, mené des études sur les interventions des travailleurs sociaux dans la vie familial. Christian de Montlibert participe à des enseignements et des enquêtes à l'École dArchitecture de Strasbourg et dirige le Centre de Recherches et d'Études en Sciences Soc ides (CRESS) qui analyse les conflits, les changements et les mutations du monde contemporain. Il est l'autheur de plusiers de plusiers livres, les plus recents dont Le contrôl de la vie privée (Neufchâtel, 1988), Crise économique et conflits sociaux (Édition L'Harmattan, 1989), La Violence du chômage (L'Université Presses de Strasbourg, 2001).
	BERTELL OLLMAN (NYU) is Professor of Political Science in the Deptartment of Politics at New York University. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Oxford and Columbia Universities. He received his doctor's degree from Oxford University in 1967. Among his better known books are Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich, Dialectical Investigations and, most recently, How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World. He is also the creator of Class Struggle, the first Marxist board game. In 1978, he was the principal in the most widely publicized academic freedom controversy in the U.S. in the last half century (The University of Maryland). In 2001, he received the first Life Achievement Award given by New Political Science, the radical section of the American Political Science Association."
	MICHAEL PARENTI (Berkeley) received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author of more than 250 articles and 15 books, including Democracy for the Few (7th edition), Against Empire, Blackshirts and Reds, Dirty Truths, America Besieged, History as Mystery and most recently, To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia. His writings have been translated into some ten languages, and have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and political periodicals. Dr. Parenti lives in Berkeley, California.
	LYDIA SARGENT (Boston) is Co-founder/Publisher of South End Press (1977) and Z Magazine (1988). She has also served on the staff of the Boston People's Coalition for Peace & Justice 1970-72, the National Office of the Indochina Peace Campaign 1973, and the Boston Medical Committee for Human Rights 1974. She was elected President of The Newbury Street Theater, Boston 1977-1994. In 1991, she became a Co-founder and member of The Living Newspaper, a news theater 1978-1982 and founded the Boston Media Action, a media watch coalition 1991-1992, as well. She has served as President of the Woods Hole Theater Company 1995-1997, and today is associated with Z Media Institute 1994-present. Her publications include: Women & Revolution (South End Press), over 100 "Hotel Satire" columns (Z Magazine); "Daughter of Earth " and "I Read About My Death " in Vogue Magazine (the first is an adaptation, the second an original feminist comedy written in 1986) both plays published in Playbook (South End Press); as well as many plays, such as: Working (adapted from Studs Terkel's book) 1977, Daughter of Earth (adapted from Agnes Smedley's novel) 1978, The Long Sigh 1979, Perverse, Immoral & Profane 1980, Maddogs and Other Rabble 1982, Harpies Bizarre 1984, New World Odor 1991, Being A Woman 1992, Tangled Up in Blue 1993, I Am Made of Blue Sky 1995
	DAN SCHILLER (Urbana), a communication historian, is the author of Digital Capitalism (MIT Press 1999) and several other books. After many years working at the University of California, he elected to abandon the consumer republic's promised land, and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois. He is a continuing contributor to Le Monde diplomatique. His forthcoming book is an anthology of essays entitled Continental Integration for Cyber-Capitalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). Dan Schiller will present a paper in January at Stendhal University in Grenoble under the title, "Hard Times: Digital Capitalism 2002."
	JAMES A. STEVENSON (Dalton)received his Ph.D. from The University of Wisconsin at Madison. His several publications include analyses of the writings of Abraham Lincoln and studies of 19th-century radicals in the U.S. and Europe. More recently he has begun to write a series of analytical essays on the contemporary history of U.S. military power, since the end of the Cold War. His colloquium presentation in Grenoble, "U.S. Weapon Systems Acquisition and 'Reform' for the Masters of War ", will be based, in his words, "on an expertise I gained by learning virtually nothing during my four-year stint in the U.S. Marine Corps and virtually everything I know during my ten-year stint in the anti-Vietnam War Movement. " Professor Stevenson teaches in Dalton, Georgia where he lives with his wife, Nancy, and their three children.
	YURI STULOV (Minsk) received his Ph. D. in American Literature from Moscow Pedagogics University in 1985 with a dissertation on James Baldwin. He is a former IREX senior fellow, Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, and visiting scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Minnesota. He holds a joint position of the chair of the World Literature Department at Minsk State Linguistics University and the director of the American Studies Center at the European Humanities University. He is the author of over 130 publications on American literature and culture, including the bibliographical dictionary 100 U.S. Writers. Professor Stulov is the president of the Belorusian Association for American Studies and the Belorusian Association of Teachers of English.
	CLAUDE TRUCHOT (Strasbourg) est Professeur à l'Université Marc Bloch (UMB), Strasbourg. Il travaille sur l'histoire et la description sociolinguistique de la langue anglaise et les politiques linguistiques en Europe. Il est co-fondateur et directeur du Groupe d'étude sur le plurilinguisme européen (GEPE), équipe de recherche (EA) de l'UMB spécialisée dans les politiques linguistiques et les contacts de langue. Le GEPE a lancé en 2000 un programme de recherche sur La langue au travail, traitant des effets linguistiques de la mondialisation. Claude Truchot collabore comme expert auprès du Conseil de l'Europe sur les politiques linguistiques éducatives. Parmi ses publications, citons (1990) L'anglais dans le monde contemporain, Paris: éd. Le Robert ; (1996)"The spread of English: from France to a more general perspective", World Englishes 15/3 ; (dir.,1993) Le plurilinguisme europée Théories et pratiques de politique linguistique, Paris: Champion-Slatkine, collection Politique linguistique; (dir., 2000) Diversité linguistique et citoyenneté démocratique, Strasbourg: Conseil de l'Europe . Impliqué longtemps dans les affaires de la Cité, il a siégé au Conseil municipal de Strasbourg de 1983 à 1995, exerçant notamment les fonctions de maire-adjoint.
	SYLVIA ULLMO (Tours), Agrégée d'Anglais, Docteur d'Etat, est aujourd'hui Professeur de Civilisation américaine et Doyen de l'UFR d'Anglais et du LEA à l'université François Rabelais de Tours. Sa thèse d'Etat(1) ainsi que plusieurs de ses travaux ont portés sur la question ouvrière à la fin du XIXème siècle. Elle a aussi enseigné et publié sur des questions économiques et sociales aux Etats-Unis au XXème siècle, ainsi que sur la Guerre du Vietnam.