UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA)

Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017
Time: 18:00 - 19:15 (doors open: 5.30pm)
Venue: Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 1
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. 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 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. 

We will also stream the event online with Independence Live here

If you miss the event, you can watch the lecture afterwards on Independence Live's website.  Professor Alison Phipps will also repeat her lecture during The Solas Festival 2017, 23-25 June, where she is curating a strand of talks and performance events. 

Independence Live is a collective of citizen livestreamers who produce live video at events. For more information please visit: http://independencelive.net/about

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First published: 9 June 2020