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

The UNESCO RILA podcast The sounds of integration, created by our team and guest podcasters, is about integration, about the sounds it makes and about the feelings, thoughts and ripples it causes. In short: an eclectic mix, just like integration itself.

We've now published several episodes in our series “The Sounds of the Spring School 2021”.  In this series we revisited several of the workshops which took place during the Spring School and turned them (as best we could!), into wee podcasts for you to enjoy if you couldn't make it along to the events themselves.

Episodes so far include:

• Reciprocity and the senses: a reply to mayday
  Prof Anne Storch and Dr Angelika Mietzner (University of Cologne) provide an introduction to the scent of language, transparency in multilingual encounters, the elegance in reciprocity and the hospitality of time shared while waiting.
• Interview with Nazek Ramadan
  Ken Gordon, Scottish podcast maker, interviews Nazek Ramadan, Director of Migrant Voice.
• The Art of Integration: M'Aidez, May Day and MacIntyre 
  Dr Argyro Kanaki presents a critical discussion on humanitarianism and human-centred understanding of the ‘Other’, using the work of the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre as a guide. 
• To Build a Home  
  Martha Orbach shares a collection of reflections from her workshops on 18 and 19 May 2021.
  
• Poetry from the Spring School
  A selection of poetry created during the Spring School. 
• Artists on Conflict  
  UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artists Robert McNeil MBE and I.D. Campbell, describe and reflect on their artwork which remembers the atrocities of Srebrenica and the Bosnian war. The discuss the power of art as a means to express, process, mediate and communicate the most extreme of experiences.  CONTENT ADVISORY - This recording contains discussion of war, genocide and war crimes which some listeners may find upsetting.   
• Dar to Dunoon - a closer look 
  Tawona Sitholé, Kate Cowcher, Madeleine Conn, Elikem Logan and Meredith Loper discuss a two year research project to document twelve works of modern art from East and Southern Africa from the Argyll Collection. The efforts to track down their makers and trace the artefacts journeys from the African continent to Argyll.

Our podcast can be found on all the major channels, including Google Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Deezer, PocketCasts and many more. Why not add us to your favourites in your preferred podcast app? Visit our podcast section for a full list of previous episodes.

Our entire back catalogue is available, along with our five-part guest series entitled "What community means to you" made by Sadie Ryan, of the Accentricity podcast, and Ken Gordon, of Refugee Voices Scotland.

We hope that you enjoy listening to our podcast – and if you do, please like, rate and subscribe!

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First published: 13 September 2021