UNESCO Chair Inaugural Lecture: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts
UNESCO Chair Inaugural Lecture: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts
UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts
Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017
Time: 18:00 - 19:15
Venue: Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 1
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Speaker: Professor Alison Phipps OBE, PhD, BA (hons), FRSE, FRSA, FAcSS
The University of Glasgow has been invited by UNESCO’s Director General to join its prestigious universities network (the UNESCO Chairs) and establish the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts to be held by Professor Alison Phipps. 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.
Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts
The University of Glasgow has been invited by UNESCO’s Director General to join its prestigious universities network (the UNESCO Chairs) and establish the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The Chair will be held by Professor Alison Phipps OBE, PhD, BA (hons), FRSE, FRSA, FAcSS, and is the first UNESCO Chair 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.
Please see below for important event information:
Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017
Venue: Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 1 (D1 on the map)
Doors open: 5.30pm
Lecture starts: 6.00pm
Event concludes: 7.15pm
Please note that this lecture will be filmed.
This lecture is free and open to the public, however it is currently sold out. Please register your interest by emailing your details to daoevents@glasgow.ac.uk to be added to the waitlist.
Professor Alison Phipps is curating a strand of talks and performance events at The Solas Festival 2017, 23-25 June