Since its foundation 1994, the INST languages have been the UN languages and German. In the course of the INST World Conferences 1999-2010, other languages were additional used. At the World Conference Austria/Europe and Global Developments, English, German and Arabic are used as working languages. As the list of Video Podcasts show, a number of other languages are also taken into account.
From the very beginning, the use of language within the framework of the INST has been reflected. Among them the development of the draft of a multilingual dictionary on cultural studies.
The Iron Age is not just a project in over 30 languages. It is also a project about languages, about new technologies (colors instead of numerics), about traditional public spheres.
Jura Soyfer’s work has been translated into over 50 languages. There is a large number of scholarly works on these translations, most of which are accessible via the Virtual Soyfer Archive.
Languages also play an important role in the context of the World Mountain Project, which was supported by a resolution of the UNESCO General Assembly in 2001: The Names of Mountains – Polylogue Centre