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Privacy notice

Please read our privacy notice which covers all our in-person and online events. Should you have any questions please contact unesco-rila@glasgow.ac.uk

Download the Pdf version here: GDPR notice UNESCO RILA 2020-2024

Privacy Notice for UNESCO RIELA programme of events 2020-2024

Your Personal Data

The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to events organised by the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts for the period 2020 - 2024. This privacy notice will explain how The University of Glasgow will process your personal data.

Why we need it

We are collecting your basic personal data such as name and email address in order to contact you in case of cancellation and in order to add you to our mailing list. We may record online events and use images from the event for marketing purposes, on our website, in our newsletter and on social media. If you wish to remain anonymous you can change or remove your name and switch off your camera and microphone for the duration of the event(s). We will only collect data that we need in order to provide and oversee this service to you.

Legal basis for processing your data

We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance, the legal basis is

Consent – there is a consent clause on the registration form on Eventbrite
All the personal data you submit is processed by staff at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.

What we do with it and who we share it with

In addition,

For online events we use Zoom. They comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can read their privacy statement
Participants come from all over the world and may take screen grabs of the event.
For registration to our events, we use Eventbrite. Their server is based in the United States, but they comply with the European Union’s GDPR. For more information, please see their privacy statement.
The meetings will be passcode protected and only registered participants will be able to join. After the first 10 minutes, the meeting will be locked. Participants have the right to change their name and switch off their camera, if they wish to remain anonymous throughout the events.

How long we keep it for

Your data will be retained by the University for the duration of the UNESCO Chair project, which runs until 31 December 2024. After this time, data will be securely deleted.

What your rights are*

You can request access to the information we process about you at any time. If at any point you believe that the information we process relating to you is incorrect, you can request to see this information and may in some instances request to have it restricted, corrected or, erased. You may also have the right to object to the processing of data and the right to data portability.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact the data protection office on dp@gla.ac.uk.

*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out.

Complaints

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the University Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotectionofficer@glasgow.ac.uk

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/

Upcoming events

For full details of each event and to register, please visit our Eventbrite page unless another specific registration link is given.

Lots of our events are recorded and turned into podcast episodes. Why not head on over to our Podcast section to listen to some of them!

Find our team members at these upcoming events:

Date	Event Details
5 Apr 25	Affiliate Artist Anton Floyd will be part of Come Together for Gaza, see flyer below.
14-15 Apr 25	Alison Phipps will present at the Conference on Rebuilding Higher Education in Gaza, held in Qatar.
23 Apr 25	Book talk at Gavin's Mill in Milngavie, Scotland Professor Alison Phipps and Khawla Badwan, the authors of ‘Keep Telling of Gaza’ a call-and-response book of poems, will read from their book, as well as talk of their experience working with colleagues in Gaza.
28 Apr 25	The Refugee Abyss: a talk by Hyab Yohannes, which draws on refugeesʼ displaced voices to foreground embodied knowledge through their lived, felt and witnessed experiences. This will be in the ARC (11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow) on 28 April, 17:30-19:00. Tickets are free and can be booked here.
8-10 May 23	Creatives of Colour Festival 2025! Three days OF celebrating the creative contributions of people of colour, hosted by Civic House, Glad Cafe, and Glasgow Film Theatre! Iman Tajik, UNESCO RIELA Affiliate Artist, will show his film A to B. The festival will celebrate both the collective identity as People of Colour and the intersectionality and diversity of our stories, cultures, and art forms. The festival has been co-curated by Kevin Leomo and Zahra Khosroshahi. The performances, screening, and workshops centre the voices, experiences, and creativity of people of colour in Glasgow, sharing amongst our larger community. Storytelling sits at the heart of these creative practices, and celebrates the resilience, joy, and talent of PoC artists. Our stories. Our lens. Our terms. Full programme here.
8 May 25	Our PhD students Hope Wang and Samira Hassanzade will present at the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability's 1-day hybrid PGR Conferencehttps. Join them in person or online via Zoom.
9 May 25	The full UNESCO RIELA team will be at St Andrew's University for the Global Learnings from the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy event.
12 May 25	Free performance of Oud Player on the Tel at Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow, 7:30pm. Free tickest: https://OudPlayerOnTheTel.eventbrite.co.uk This piece, written by Tom Block from the International Human Rights Arts Movement and directed by Jesica Garrou, aims to tell the story of how the founding of Israel on Palestinian land could have been a catalyst for peace, and instead became 75+ years of conflict into the war of today. Although very sensitive to the Palestinian narrative, it also shows how the Jewish people were "hanging by a thread" at that time, and points out that the British and, to a lesser extent America, played a role in beginning this ongoing conflict. The piece aims to educate, as well as open new doorways of understanding in a situation desperately in need of it. Part of the Fringe activities around the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating
13-15 May 25	UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating We are excited to announce that the theme for next year's in-person Spring School is "May peace prevail". This Spring School will focus on peacebuilding, specifically using arts, languages and education. The call for contributions is out now! For 2025, we invite proposals which explore how to build peace in the minds of people, how to live together peacefully, restoratively and interculturally, how to respond to and counteract current events worldwide that seek to divide societies, and how to ensure that peace prevails, founded on justice. The deadline for proposals is midnight on Tuesday 28 January 2025.
30-31 May 25	Visiting Academic Dilara Özel has had her paper 'How Can Language Learning Be a Tool for Peace and Sustainability Education?' accepted per inclusion at the 3rd International Symposium on Social Justice in ELT (SJELT 2025). The event will take place on Friday-Saturday, 30-31 May 2025 at Bahçeşehir University South Campus in Istanbul, Türkiye. The paper will be presented by co-author Ayşegül Yurtsever.
2-3 Jun25	Visitn Academic Dilara Özel will be presenting in Edinburgh at the APeCS Conference 2025: Future-Making in Times of Conflict, Violence and Insecurity, as part of Panel 10: Digital Technologies for Inclusivity and Peace: Exploring Possibilities for Preventing Online Hate Speech. Her abstract title is: Beyond the Echo Chamber: Peace Education as a Tool for Digital Coexistence.
11-13 Jun 25	Visiting Academic Dilara Özel will be presenting at the Imagining Sustainable Developments, Discussing Education Futures conference at Lancaster University, with her talk entitled "Fostering Peace Education Through Technological and Visual Tools in the Classroom".
13 Jun 25	We will be hosting an event as part of Refugee Festival Scotland and Glasgow Science Festival. You are all warmly invited to come to the Clarice Pears building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB, between 11:00am and 3:00pm for our Eritrean Coffee Ceremony, to share stories and freshly brewed Eritrean coffee. We will explore the coffee ceremony as a place of peace, of support and community, as a way to connect to one another and to learn from each other's cultural practices. Bring the family, the dog and your friends! All welcome, no need to register, just turn up!
14 Jun 25	As part of Refugee Festival Scotland, Tawona Sitholé and Dilara Özel will be hosting a family-friendly workshop entitled Ties That Bind: Discovering Family Stories Through Conversation and Art. They invite children age 8-11 and their families to explore identity and connection through conversation and creativity. More information and free tickets: TiesThatBindRFS2025.eventbrite.co.uk
23 Jun - 18 Jul 25	We will host a travelling exhibition, showcasing work by UNESCO RIELA Affiliate Artists Hannah Rose Thomas and Robert McNeil, as part of the remembrance events around the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide. Here is where you can view the paintings: 23 June - 6 July: University Chapel 7 - 10 July: Advanced Research Centre, ground floor 11 - 18 July: School of Education, 5th floor gallery
24 Jun 25	Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum Esa Aldegheri will be a keynote speaker at this interdisciplinary symposium asking how creative practices have been used to inhabit, expose, navigate or contest global geographies of asylum in the twenty-first century. Taking place at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, Displaced Arts will explore the potential of arts – including literature, life-writing, storytelling, poetry, community theatre, photography, and film – to illuminate geographies of asylum which have been reshaped by increasingly securitised border regimes, narratives of a ‘refugee crisis’, and a rapidly growing asylum-industrial complex. The call for papers is available here and is open until Wednesday 15 January 2025.
24 Jun 25	Hyab Yohannes will be speaking at the first ever Global Forum for Human Trafficking Survivors - Voices of Resilience, held in Vienna. On 22 November 2021, the United Nations General Assembly called for the active involvement of survivors in shaping anti-trafficking, victim-centered, and trauma-informed efforts. The forum, organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the financial support of the European Union (EU), will place survivors at the centre and highlight the importance of listening to and learning from them. More information can be found here.
27 Jun 25	Memorial event hosted in the University Chapel, to commemorate the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, 30 years after it took place. No need to book tickets, just come to the chapel.
17-18 Jul 25	Alison Phipps will be at the UK UNESCO Chairs conference in Portsmouth.
26 Jul 25	Blina Shama UK Annual Gathering. This will take place in Leeds. More info to follow.
6-14 Sep 25	Hyab Yohannes will present at the Curious festival. Curious is the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s festival of knowledge. It brings together a range of leading thinkers and invites curious minds to gather, learn, discuss big ideas, ask questions, and explore diverse topics over two weeks of free events. Hyab will be talking about his book The Refugee Abyss.
8-12 Sep 25	Visiting academic Dilara Özel, PhD candidates Sevinj Rustamova and Samira Hasanzade will be presenting their work at the Emerging Researchers Conference (ECR), on 8 September 2025. Their session is called Beyond Words: Silent Paths to Peace. Following the ERC, is the European Conference for Educational Research (ECER) 2025 “Charting the Way Forward: Education, Research, Potentials and Perspectives”, which will take place at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, 8 - 12 September 2025. Dilara and Ayşegül Yurtsever will present another paper called Bridging Language and Peace: Exploring the Intersection of Sustainability and Peace Education.
9-11 Sep 25	Alison Phipps and Hyab Yohannes will deliver a keynote speech entitled Out of the Rubble: Refugee Language Education in Times of Heartbreak and Failure, at the BERA (British Educational Research Association) Annual Conference 2025, at the University of Sussex. Visiting academic Dilara Özel will also be at the conference to deliver a workshop entitled "Building Theory and Practice: The Critical Need for Research-Driven Approaches in Peace Education"