UNESCO RIELA Online Spring School 2024: The Arts of Integrating (Word Springs)
UNESCO RIELA Online Spring School 2024: The Arts of Integrating (Word Springs)
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Monday 07 October 2024 - Friday 11 October 2024
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Venue: Online
Category: Concerts and music, Conferences, Academic events
Speaker: Professor Alison Phipps, Professor Nasar Meer, Joanne Irvine, and more
Website: bit.ly/RILAOnlineSpring24
The UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Language, and Arts (RIELA) is working on five key ideas. One of those is “enhancing and replicating models for refugee integration by intentional multilingual learning with refugees and with new host communities, in order to foster creativity, diversity of cultural expressions and intercultural capabilities”.
This year, the UNESCO RIELA Online Spring School links to that idea and focuses on words and languages, on communication and on discourse, on repertoires and on silence. We have curated sessions that explore, showcase, celebrate, experiment, teach and share integration practices and research that have language at their heart.
Together we will find out more about intercultural communication, about language hierarchies, about discourse and changing meanings of words. We will learn about new words and language learning, about language loss, about language revival and about multilingual integration processes. We will hear the word ‘welcome’ in many languages, but we will also explore what it means when words fail us. We will learn about the power of poetry, of words that comfort, of the solace of silence. We welcome the languages of music, of dance, of theatre.
At this year’s Online Spring School, we will examine our words and work with all of our languages and repertoires, or ways of finding meaning and making meaning together. We share with you sessions that bring in linguistic creativity and diversity to inform or learn from multilateral integration and intercultural initiatives.
This event will take place on Zoom, please register to attend and a joining link will be sent to you before the conference begins. View the full programme via the UNESCO RIELA website and register for your free ticket via Eventbrite.