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Throughout Refugee Week 2023, the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and Arts (RILA) team participated in a number of engaging activities and discussions. These included:

 

• Read the full article piece for The National by Prof Alison Phipps for World Refugee Day 

• Hannah Rose Thomas' Tears of Gold exhibition at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), telling the stories of displaced women through portraits 

• Blog by Hyab Yohannes for University of Oxford blog, on ‘The Normalisation of Migrant Deaths and Its Implications for Humanity’

• Presentation by Hyab Yohannes as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's World Refugee Day Lecture, alongside Prof Alison Phipps and Hannah Thomas

See the full range of activities that the UNESCO RILA team were involved with during Refugee Week Scotland

 

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More information

The UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA) is hosted within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow undertakes a programme of work focused on multilingual knowledge exchange in the area of refugee and humanitarian protection, with a focus on fostering integration through creative and cultural expressions.

Visit the UNESCO Chair RILA website to learn more about their research and activities.

Biographies

• Professor Alison Phipps
• Hannah Rose thomas 
• Dr Hyab Yohannes

 

First published: 27 June 2023