UNESCO Inaugural Lecture
UNESCO Inaugural Lecture
On Campus
Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Boyd Orr Building Lecture Theatre 1
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Speaker: Professor Alison Phipps
Website: www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/NetCommunity/events-and-reunions/2017-unesco-inaugural-lecture
Please note that this lecture is now SOLD OUT. If you would like to be added to the waiting list please email daoevents@glasgow.ac.uk.
At the end of 2016, The University of Glasgow was invited to establish an UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and The Arts, to be held by Professor Alison Phipps OBE, PhD, BA (Hons), FRSE, FRSA.
This Chair is the first worldwide to investigate Refugee Integration.
This lecture will explore the role language and arts play in societal integration and the creative processes at work in intercultural encounters. In particular it will offer a critique and development of existing understanding of integration and explore new possibilities. The lecture will involve the work of Gameli Tordzro and Tawona Sithole, artists in residence with the UNESCO Chair.