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

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Artist network meeting for UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artists and Artist from the Scottish Refugee Council's Cross Borders network.

Hyab Yohannes chaired the discussion panel at the CinemARC: Borderzone film screening.

Jour Fixe - Art in Conflict. Organised by Centre for Art and Peacebuilding in Zürich. Alison Phipps and Tawona Ganyamatopé Sitholé explore the keynote as a form of performative poetry. They describe how a performance poet of the Global South interrupts the keynote of a white, female, northern professor with his own poetry. The two researchers pursue a practice-led, intercultural, decolonial research approach. Possible questions that guide them and us: Does a keynote have the potential to contribute to conflict transformation? What does “intercultural” mean in such a context? How do we react when we unexpectedly encounter speech or words that we do not understand?