UNESCO RILA: The sounds of integration: Recent Episodes
UNESCO RILA
Welcome to the podcast series of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA) at the University of Glasgow. We bring you sounds to make you think about integration, languages, culture, society and identity. A collection of academic musings, poetry, lesser heard voices and personal stories for you to enjoy and expand you horizons with. In short: a podcast for everyone with stories from the world, about the world, released fortnightly.
We work in collaboration with Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) and its partners. Together, our aim is to promote creative, practical multilingual action for change at all levels of society to build capacity in research and action focused on fostering cultural expressions of heritage and diversity with displaced peoples, and academic freedom for those at risk.
This presentation by Blessing Oluchikwu Awamba about her work with students and teachers in Nigeria, was recorded at the online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating in October 2025. Blessing's work focuses on strategies for integrating global citizenship education into classroom learning to promote peace. She details some of the ways she has used writing and film shows to help students understand peace better, reflect on their daily lives, and take actions to become more peaceful from within. She also shared how her work is helping teachers become ambassadors of peace and create classrooms that serve as incubators for changemakers who promote peace. The presentation offers a compelling case for reforming education to prioritise peaceful coexistence alongside literacy and numeracy.Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba is a Nigerian peacebuilding educator and champion for Global Citizenship Education. As the Founder and Lead Educator of Change A Child Community Initiative, she works to transform narratives of violence into opportunities for growth by working with teachers and students to integrate peace education into school learning. Her work has been recognised and supported by international bodies, including UNESCO-APCEIU and SIMA Studios. She is the author of the children's book, Building Our Ideal Community, and a winner of the 2024 UNODC-GRACE international essay competition. Blessing’s vision is to reform educational policy to ensure that peaceful coexistence becomes the primary measure of education across Africa.
In this podcast, Sundas shares some aspects of her recently completed research project that investigated the use of indigenous, faith, spiritual, and cultural environmental literacies for sustainability education. She elaborates on how these pluriversal environmental literacies are important for not only sustainability and regeneration for all life and life forms on earth, but also for peacebuilding. Dr Sundas Mahar is a researcher and educator currently based at the University of Glasgow. She is specifically interested in using decolonial and pluriversal frameworks to create impactful approaches to education for sustainability and regeneration. Her research focuses on creative, participatory, and embodied approaches to inquiry with students and communities in non-formal educational contexts.To find out more about her work, you can connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundas-mahar/
This episode is a recording of a presentation by Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale, Dr Giovanna Fassetta, Dr Sahar Alshobaki and Damian Ross, shared with us at the online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025.The presentation highlights the LINEs4Palestine projects, launched in March 2024, to reduce isolation and support Palestinian students, especially in Gaza. Initially, English and Education graduates received tailored workshops and up to six hours of one-to-one mentoring. The expanded phase of the project now serves students across disciplines and universities, offering, e.g., ELLT Oxford test training, research methods course for social sciences, critical pedagogy course, drama-based teaching and learning, and sci-fi film creation. The presentation offers pathways of what could be done in such dire circumstances, lessons learned and how we imagine things can go forward.Things have moved on since this recording was made, and you can read all about the continued work on the website of the University of Glasgow: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/research/researchimpactstories/continuingacademicworkduringthegenocideinpalestine/For the biographies of the speakers, please head to the show notes on the podcast website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/podcast/
A mini poem created at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, in the workshop The Story of the Travelling Plate, led by Dilara Özel and Erdem Avşar.
In this episode, we explore the story, challenges, and outcomes of the VERIS project — VERIS – Voices of Palmyra: Engaging in Tangible Memorial Heritage in Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion — through a conversation with Patrick M. Michel, Oana Șerban, and Brittnee Leysen. Together, they reflect on the collaborative process behind VERIS, a CIVIS Open Lab, the inclusion of Syrian refugees in participatory heritage practices, and the opportunities and limits of using virtual reconstruction as a tool for cultural memory and social innovation.Starting from the reconstruction of tangible heritage associated with Palmyra, the discussion addresses a central question: how can digitally mediated encounters with endangered or destroyed cultural sites become a point of departure for recovering intangible heritage — memories, narratives, identities, and lived cultural practices? The episode also unpacks the ethical, methodological, and practical challenges of working with displaced communities, co-creation, trauma-sensitive engagement, and digital representations of cultural loss.VERIS emerged from a strong interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration under the umbrella of CIVIS – Europe’s Civic University Alliance, bringing together University of Lausanne, represented by Patrick M. Michel, University of Bucharest, represented by Oana Șerban, and University of Glasgow, represented by Brittnee Leysen. This conversation offers insight into how heritage, technology, and civic engagement can intersect to support refugee inclusion, cultural resilience, and new forms of participatory knowledge-making.For the full show notes, including the biographies of the speakers, please head to our website www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/ and head to the podcast section.
Can singing and dancing serve as non-violent responses to oppression? The Estonian song and dance festivals played a crucial role in the Singing Revolution, a series of peaceful mass protests that helped the Estonian people regain their freedom in 1991. Based on my experience as a singer and dancer in this year’s festival, I will provide an insider’s perspective on how these performances allow contemporary Estonians to confront the past and process intergenerational impacts of war, forced deportations, refugee migration, and occupation.This presentation explores how cultural performances can be used as non-violent responses to conflict and facilitate healing. Speaker biography: Dr Kalika Kastein (she/they) is a queer, non-binary Estonian-American who was raised in a multi-generational household with her parents and her grandparents, who fled Estonia as refugees. Kalika has participated as a singer and dancer in the Estonian national song and dance festival. Kalika has nearly 15 years of experience as an educator and is a certified primary teacher in both Aotearoa New Zealand and Hawaiʻi. Based at Ōtakou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago, they specialise in peace education and currently work in Te Kura Ākau Taitoka College of Education.This episode was recorded at the online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025. For more information about our Spring Schools, please visit www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/events/springschool/.
In this podcast series, Dr Mukuka Kasonde and Dr Brice Catherin continue their exploration of the concept of decolonial love which they first engaged with as an art exhibition in 2025. In conversation with guests, they critically reflect on how to imagine and enact forms of love that unsettle colonial hierarchies and open space for transformation. In episode 3, Dr Tawona Sithole highlights how the intergenerational care shown by family can help formulate ideas about love. More about Dr Tawona Sitholé: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/tawonasithole/#biographyMore about Dr Mukuka Kasonde: www.linkedin.com/in/mukukakasonde/More about Dr Brice Catherin: www.bricecatherin.orgMore about the Decolonial Love exhibition: indd.adobe.com/view/9b19dbd9-ebd…a3c2-6b040d3446d9Music credit: Christophe Schweizer (Switzerland) and Able Chanda (Banthu Ndiwo Traditional Dance Group, Zambia)
In this podcast series, Dr Mukuka Kasonde and Dr Brice Catherin continue their exploration of the concept of decolonial love which they first engaged with as an art exhibition in 2025. In conversation with guests, they critically reflect on how to imagine and enact forms of love that unsettle colonial hierarchies and open space for transformation. In episode 2, Prof. Alison Phipps engages with love in liberation theology and how it is tied to resistance to oppression.More about Prof. Alison Phipps: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/aboutus/corestaff/alisonphipps/More about Dr Mukuka Kasonde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukukakasonde/More about Dr Brice Catherin: https://www.bricecatherin.orgMore about the Decolonial Love exhibition: https://indd.adobe.com/view/9b19dbd9-ebd3-4725-a3c2-6b040d3446d9Music credit: Christophe Schweizer (Switzerland) and Able Chanda (Banthu Ndiwo Traditional Dance Group, Zambia)
In this podcast series, Dr Mukuka Kasonde and Dr Brice Catherin continue their exploration of the concept of decolonial love which they first engaged with as an art exhibition in 2025. In conversation with guests, they critically reflect on how to imagine and enact forms of love that unsettle colonial hierarchies and open space for transformation. In episode 1, Prof. Caroline Lenette takes inspiration from indigenous forms of knowledge to articulate ideas of love within and outside academia. More about Prof. Caroline Lenette: www.unsw.edu.au/staff/caroline-lenetteMore about Dr Mukuka Kasonde: www.linkedin.com/in/mukukakasonde/More about Dr Brice Catherin: www.bricecatherin.orgMore about the Decolonial Love exhibition: https://indd.adobe.com/view/9b19dbd9-ebd3-4725-a3c2-6b040d3446d9 Music: Christophe Schweizer (Switzerland) and Able Chanda (Banthu Ndiwo Traditional Dance Group, Zambia)
This episode was recorded at the online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025.We Care delves into the intimate world of elderly care in Colombia, revealing how these tender moments become powerful rituals that weave collective memory and nurture peace within communities.In Colombian families, caring for elders creates profound bonds that naturally transmit values and traditions across generations. This project illuminates how seemingly simple daily acts — like assisting with bathing or sharing a meal — transform into moments of deep reflection and connection. These caring rituals don't just meet physical needs; they create a tapestry of shared history that strengthens family ties and cultivates the empathy essential for lasting peace.Through this lens, caregiving emerges as both deeply personal and profoundly political — an essential act for building a more compassionate society. By documenting these intimate moments, We Care contributes to Colombia's ongoing peace process, demonstrating how the transmission of memory through care serves as a vital safeguard against repeating the violent patterns of the past.The project asks us to consider: in these moments of vulnerability and tenderness, who is truly caring for whom?The presentation was by Diana Agámez, Luisa Machacón and Isabella Corvino. For their biographies and some examples of the photos, please see the full shownotes on our website: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationThis episode was edited by Catherine McGrath.
This episode is a recording of a presentation by Rezvan Sayyad, who presented a talk with this title at the 2025 online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating. Rezvan is researching how rap music in Iran has become a contested space for representation, identity and resistance. For the full show notes, including the biography of the speaker, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, recorded at the online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, we will hear from Prof Dr Bilgin Ayata, project leader of the research project Elastic Borders: Rethinking the Borders of the 21st Century. This project, generously funded by the NOMIS foundation, proposes a new conceptualization of the border building on the concept of elasticity in physics. Thinking of borders as elastic offers new avenues to understanding not only how state borders stretch and retract, but also how they create fields of stress and violations in the processes of extension and retraction. Borders become elastic when they are extended either beyond or behind the territorial confines of a state.The introduction and the editing were done by Catherine McGrath.For the link to the project and Prof Dr Ayata's biography, please see the full show notes at bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
In this episode, recorded at the online UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2025, Anna Burgin shares her research into refugee resettlement in Aotearoa, New Zealand.Abstract:Refugee resettlement, while offering refuge, is also what Pratt (1991) calls a “contact zone”, a space of contestation and unequal power dynamics. In Aotearoa New Zealand, resettlement is also dominated by the settler colonial government to the exclusion of Māori. This presentation will discuss the perspectives of NZ European volunteers supporting Māori-led welcome (pōwhiri) aimed at creating peaceful connections with former refugees and migrants in Dunedin. I discuss volunteers' reflections through the lens of Pratt’s contact zone and everyday peacebuilding as they discuss their positionalities in relation to the pōwhiri process and questions of belonging.Anna Burgin is currently finishing her doctoral studies through the College of Education and Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies), University of Otago — a case study of refugee resettlement volunteers’ perspectives. She is an Assistant Research Fellow at Te Kura Ākau Taitoka ki Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago College of Education. For the full show notes, including a glossary, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This episode, recorded at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2025, is a discussion between Dr. Ray Di Marco Campbell, Dr. Haley Sneed, Jinming Liu and Gabriel, in which they explore contemporary and idealised community initiatives that take account of differences in residency status, recourse to public funds, employment opportunities, and access to quality nutrition in order to co-creative a peaceful and socially connected society. It draws upon the lived, professional, and community-based experiences of organising amidst hostile systems from the panellists, whilst also considering the financial and funding implications for the more formal charity sector and community member-run initiatives. Discussions on these alternative practices enables insights into mechanisms that can respond to the austere and hostile politics that plagues much of our society today, advocating for practices rooted in justice and meeting the needs of marginalised people. Please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration for the full show notes, including the biographies of the speakers.
Timothy Peacock and Rebecca Sutton talk about peacegaming and their work at the Games and Gaming Lab at the University of Glasgow. This talk was inspired by their workshop at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating (May Peace Prevail), which took place in Glasgow in May 2025.
In this episode, Julie Ward, former MEP with a background in activism, talks about the Durham-based 'No To Hassockfield' campaign. Hassockfield is the site of an Immigration Removal Centre and the campaign was fighting for its closure, uses creative arts as a powerful tool to raise awareness of the harms caused by asylum detention and the need to provide community alternatives, whilst also providing a culture of care for the campaigners. This presentation was recorded at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025. This event gets hosted annually in person in Glasgow, Scotland in May and online in October. The next edition is due on 27-31 October 2025.For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This episode is a recording of the opening keynote address Prof David Gramling delivered at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. Here is the abstract:Good NewsBernice Johnson Reagon once sang for us a corrective teaching, along the lines that: “It’s ‘good news’ when you reject things as they are. […] And they don’t say ‘it’s good times’, they say ‘it’s good news’.” Fifty years later, these are definitely not good times. And, in this powerfully strange moment, even looking around for ‘good news’ often feels inappropriately consolational, often at fatal odds with the dreads and taunts of today’s geopolitical realism. This opening talk for our Spring School welcomes in the resources of “untimely optimism” (Feldman 2023), “out-of-phasedness” (Doumani 2007), “gramáticas de lo inaudito” (Acosta López 2023) and “anticipatory illuminations” (Bloch in Zipes 2019), in hopes of making room for a peace-in-this-time whose living vitality is the opposite of resigned quietism. To that end, we will meet head-on a few of the nightmares-of-the-self that may well haunt a peace-lover in Spring of 2025, seeking to expel that haunt and conjure in its place some unprecedented good news.For the full show notes, including David's biography, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, Elder in Residence Mike Gonzalez interviews Mohammad Alkhatib and Daniel Calvert about teaching languages, inclusion, second language acquisition, ESOL, linguistic landscapes and translanguaging pedagogy. Please visit our website for the shownotes, including their biographies: https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this little bonus clip, you'll hear from a number of participants about their experiences at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating. The music is by Soloway Choir, a choir made up of Ukrainian women, currently living in Glasgow.
In this episode, Dr Tawona Sitholé speaks with academic and author Jo Beall (FAcSS) about her debut novel, Meadowlands Dawn, set in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. Their conversation explores Jo’s personal connection to the story, how she switched from academic to creative writing, and the important distinction between love and infatuation.For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
A wee bonus message for you all. Full show notes, including the names of the speakers and the languages: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This week we have an episode in a different language for you. Listen to TafBob Mutumbi, telling us a story in Shona, one of the languages spoken in Zimbabwe by around 9 million people.Tafadzwa Bob Mutumbi is an actor, Director and Theatre maker from Harare, Zimbabwe.TafBob strives to create, perform and direct provocative ritual theatre pieces that are innovative and functional. He is committed to using his craft and artistic voice to tell marginalised African narratives with the express intention of bringing about social and political transformation. A graduate of the Theory X Theatre Initiative's 3 year acting programme, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2011. And the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre's MFA programme, Blue Lake, CA, USA, 2017.He has performed in plays such as "The Convert" by Danai Gurira, "The Gospel of Othello" by Patrice Naiambana. "Broken" co created and performed with Everyone Ndlovu.He is the inaugural recipient of the Walter Mparutsa artist of excellence fellowship.His directing credits include the plays ""Ruvajena" By Virginia Jekanyika, My Father is a Goat", (devised.) The music theatre adaptation of The Merchant of Venice" (co-director with Juwon Ongungbe) "Mirror Magnet", (Devised ) "Chirorodziva", written by TafBob "Breathing Graves" (Devised) and "There is a Field" by Jen Marlowe.He has directed staged readings including "Familiar" by Danai Gurira and "Hashtag Blackgods Matter" By Sfundo Sosibo.As of 2021, he is working on a duet project exploring the world for ritual theatre for healing of racial and political trauma- IMDb Mini Biography By: Moyo
In this second episode about the Drawing Together project, Alison Phipps interviews Ravi Kohli, Kate MacKinnon, Sharon McGregor and Christine Uwase about their experiences working on the project. Please refer to part 1 for the full background of the project. For the show notes, including biographies of the speakers and links to the project, please visit: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.Rough timings of this episode's content:0 to 1m50s: Alison briefly introduces the Drawing Together project and team.1m50s to 3m40s: Christine talks about her role as project Ambassador and what the project meant to her with Alison’s reflections and questions.3m40s to 9m30s: Christine and Alison reflect on their involvement in the project and the value person methodology.9m30s to 16m15s: Ravi reflects on the challenges of running an international project e.g., overcoming language and cultural barriers and the covid-19 pandemic, with Alison’s reflections.16m25s to 20m25s: Kate reflects on her policy role in the project and the policy context of the project in Scotland.20m25s to 24m35s: Sharon reflects on some of the project findings in relation to young refugees growing new roots in a new country and the importance of language, cultural, stability, security, with Alison’s reflections.24m35s to 24m40s: Alison reflects on the project findings in relation to the New Scots Integration Strategy delivery plan.24m40 to 29m50s: Christine reflects on the challenges young refugees overcome when they are setting up a new life in a new country, with Alison’s reflections.29m50s to 33m33s: Kate reflects on the policy findings and the importance of relationships, nature, faith, navigation, technology, with Alison’s reflections.33m33s to 37m20s: Sharon reflects on the research findings in relation to the important features of professional relationships from young refugees in the project, with Alison’s reflections in relation to the New Scots Integration Strategy.37m20s to 43m25s: Kate reflects on the importance of nature, faith and access to digital technology and travel as noted in the project’s policy brief, and the importance of children’s rights, with Alison’s reflections.43m25s to 49m39s: Ravi reflects on the personal, cultural and research consequences of the Drawing Together project, with Alison’s reflections in relation to the New Scots Integration Strategy.49m39s: Closing remarks and Alison’s thanks.
In this episode, Alison Phipps interviews Ravi Kohli, Sharon McGregor and Christine about the Drawing Together project, a project that looked at the relational wellbeing in the lives of young refugees in Scotland, Finland and Norway. For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers and links to the project, please visit: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.Rough timings of this episode's content:0 to 4 mins: Alison introduces the Drawing Together project team4 to 12 mins: Ravi introduces the project and Alison responds12 to 17 mins: Sharon reflects on the participants and project methodology and Alison’s reflections and questions17 to 20 mins: Sharon explains the meaning behind some of the participants’ art objects and Alison’s reflections.20 to 26.5 mins: Ravi explains the rationale behind past/present/future time dimensions and Alison’s reflections and questions.26.5 to 28.5mins: Ravi reflects on the ‘past’ time dimension and Alison’s reflections.28.5 to 30mins: Sharon reflects on the past methodology and Alison’s questions.30 to 37mins: Christine explains her ambassador role on the project and Alisons’ reflections and questions37 to 41mins: Christine reflects on the international visit to Norway to meet the Norwegian and Finnish teams and Alison’s response41 to 43.34mins: Alison’s closing remarks, thanks and invitation for recording a part two.
This episode is a collection of 4 poems, written by the 4 keynote listeners Erdem Avşar, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Herbert Cea and Heidi Perez-Cordero, who each summarised a day of the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024, a large conference which takes place every year in May in Glasgow. For more information about the event, please visit bit.ly/RILASpring24. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
This episode is a recording of a session entitled 'Exploring creative, cross-cultural research collaborations: A case study of an MSF run thalassemia clinic in Lebanon', which was meant to take place at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2023, but which was cancelled because of the situation in Lebanon at the time. Dr Molly Gilmour has now kindly shared the research that she conducted, together with her colleagues Belal Shukair, Fatima Fouad and Nader Tabri. For the full show notes, including bios of the speakers, the presentation slides and images of the project, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, UNESCO RIELA PhD researcher Pinar Aksu discusses her workshop at the RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 (Word Springs). Pinar's PhD research looks at the connection between art and law in the context of migration and how arts practices can be part of creating social change, as well as access to justice within the immigration system. Her workshop explored the language used to describe migration in headlines, legislation, policies, and by lawyers, and invited participants to bring the language of the law to life - and to create an alternative. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This episode was recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 (Word Springs). In it, Michael Quinn argues for the inclusion of stories in teaching, to add a philosophical dimension to traditional fact-based teaching methods. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This episode was recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024. In it, Gillebrìde Mac'IlleMhaoil / Gilbert MacMillan shares stories from South Uist and surrounding islands, as well as some Gaelic songs. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
Margot Leys Johnston interviews Dr Hyab Yohannes from the UNESCO RILA team about his research into the 'refugee condition'. For the full show notes, including short biographies, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This episode is a rerecording of a session we hosted at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2023, hosted by By Nadine Malcolm (Due North Studio), Lee McNeish (University of Edinburgh) and Cáit O'Neill McCullagh (independent artist). "Who Are We Now?" explores the destruction, and subsequent emergence, of culture in the northern Highlands, centred around the concepts of agency and ownership, and how destruction creates space for the new. How does learning about loss help give agency over the destruction of the Highland Clearances, and through that, create space for communities to forge their own present and futures. Asking the question; how has our culture loss and destruction led us to be who we are now, and what does that look like? In the true spirit of the ceilidh, this work by its very nature should be collaborative. Whilst providing a framework, Nadine, Lee and Cáit invite community groups and individuals to reflect creatively on these topics to present a lively and open exploration of modern Highland identity.For the full show notes, including biographies, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, James Rann and Katherine Mackinnon from the University of Glasgow introduce their project 'Власними словами | In Our Own Words', which is a project that brings Ukrainians in Glasgow together with other Glaswegians and uses creative writing and multilingual translation to build confidence, community and mutual understanding. For more information about the project and the speakers, please go to the show notes: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This is the second of a two part conversation between Dr Dan Fisher, and researchers Sawsan Abdelghany, and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL in the asylum system. In this episode, Dan and Adam are interviewing Sawsan.Sawsan Abdelghany is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, and a heritage language tutor. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters in TESOL and has worked as an English-Arabic interpreter for asylum seekers and refugees in the Scottish legal system. Her research interests centre around the role of language in helping refugees to integrate.
This is the first of a two part episode in which Dr Dan Fisher talks with Sawsan Abdelghany and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL interpretation in asylum appeals. In this part, Sawsan and Dan are interviewing Adam.Adam Williamson is a freelance translator and interpreter based in Paris, where he works with English, Spanish and French. He began his interpreting career in the asylum system in Glasgow, where he encountered a variety of challenging circumstances and ethically compromising situations for which he felt his interpreter training had not fully prepared him. These experiences led him to complete an MPhil by research at the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of the UNESCO RILA team. Chiefly drawing on participant observation and interviews, his study looks at the mismatch between the expectations of interpreters in the asylum context and the reality on the ground. The research also includes a series of recommendations which will feed into the third iteration of the Scottish Government’s New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy.For the full transcript, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
Afamba apota is a Zimbabwean proverb recited to remind ourselves of the unpredictability of going on a journey. This radio play is a playful look at the important matter of migration. Join self-proclaimed master documentary maker Paul Lamont as he enters the migration corridor and meets the inhabitants.Created by members of the Mideq team, a full list of credits can be found on the Mideq website: https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/afamba-apota/For the show notes and the transcript of this episode, please visithttps://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode we hear from Mukuka Kasonde and Brice Catherin about their project Our Stories: a series of storytelling workshops in Zambia to create children's literature with a local slant. They are interviewed by Olivia Ndoti. For the full show notes including biographies, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
In this episode, Narjes Hashemi is interviewing two members of the Afghan community in Canada about their work to preserve Afghan cultural heritage. For the full show notes, please visit:https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
Listen to Esa Aldegheri interview Avril Bellinger and Deirdre Ford about their book 'The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives'. An incredibly uplifting conversation, just what we need in these challenging times. Can you hear the creaking chair?Avril Bellinger, Honorary Associate Professor in Social Work, University of Plymouth UK, is an academic activist, international volunteer, founder of Students and Refugees Together (START), co-author of The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives, grandmother and allotmenteer.Deirdre Ford is a registered social worker, associate of Research in Practice, trustee of Students and Refugees Together (START) and co-author of The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives.Buy the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-strengths-approach-in-practiceFull show notes: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
At the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, which took place in May 2023, Scotland-based curator Dr Deirdre MacKenna and psychologist Dr Laura Cariola hosted an online panel discussion, introducing their approaches to working with culturally plural mindsets. Through relational and interdisciplinary frameworks, these researchers have initiated a new collaboration to explore what it means to be ‘Third Culture’, and are working to activate consideration of and give voice to people who don’t define their sense of identity through a single nation-state.For growing numbers of people, describing “where I belong” or “where I’m from” is a challenge which cannot be described simply by indicating a single location/community; their sense of constituency is formed from instances, durational periods, journeys and multiple places (both territorial and online) as well as a process of continuous resistance of the assumptions inherent within concepts of monocultural society.This panel discussion provided a space to engage in an open, reflective interdisciplinary dialogue with a focus on the world from the perspective of Third Culture experiences, such as liminal places, belonging, and identity in-transition.For more information about the UNESCO RILA Spring School, please visit www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/events/springschool/For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
On 14 October 2023, the UNESCO RILA team participated in the Fairies and Folktales event, held at New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site during the October week. Hope Wang, PhD candidate with the UNESCO RILA team, wrote a story for the event. Listen to her story and ask yourself: what is your utopia?Want to come and see New Lanark for yourself? Why not join our family-friendly event Shared Spaces: Migration Past & Present on 16 November: https://bit.ly/RILA_JoinUs
TW from around 41:30: rape and traumaIn this episode we look at the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, which was published in February 2023. It is a conversation between one of the editors (Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi) and four chapter authors (Himadri Chatterjee, Agnes Woolley, Sydney Van To and Asha Varadharajan). Topics that get covered are the relationship between narrative and literature, between fiction and non-fiction, questions around witnessing and forgetting, traumatic repetition, the need to categorise, questions of audience, of purpose, individual versus communal trauma and contradiction within the narratives.Sociopolitical, historical, literary and legal perspectives all get covered in this fascinating discussion.For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
At the UNESCO RILA Spring School 2023: The Arts of Integrating, held in May 2023, 4 keynote poets captured the event in a poem. They are Marzanna Antoniak, Chantelle Warner, Anita Govan and S'phongo. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, as part of the Sites Unseen project, Sadie Ryan and Brittnee Leysen from the UNESCO RILA team travelled to Mi’kma’ki, the homeland of the indigenous Mi'kmaw people. Mi'kma'ki spans a big geographical area in Eastern Canada, including the area that's also known as Nova Scotia, meaning 'new Scotland'. The Mi'kmaw have been living in the area for at least 11,000 years, and possibly much longer. Most of the Scottish settlers started to arrive about 250 years ago. But it's the name Nova Scotia, not Mi’kma’ki, that you'll usually see on maps.
This Sites Unseen project explores relationships between Scotland’s UNESCO sites and other UNESCO sites elsewhere in the world. This episode explores the relationship between the North West Highlands Global Geopark in Scotland and the Cliffs of Fundy Global Geopark in Canada. We have created a learning pack which uses this episode, alongside a short film, to help learners think more deeply about colonialism, kinship, migration, culture, place-making, language, and identity. It will be launched in the coming months, and will be available for free to all teachers and educators worldwide. To find out more, and to be notified of the launch date, please email unesco-rila@glasgow.ac.uk.
The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq are currently fundraising to build a cultural centre. You can find out more about the project and donate at bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
We’re massively grateful to everyone in Mi'kma'ki who welcomed us and shared their stories with us, and especially to Julie Pellisier-Lush, Iseabail Munro and her daughter Tausha, and Cathy Martin, whose voices you heard in this episode.
Sites Unseen is a project from the team of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, led by Professor Alison Phipps.
For the transcript of this episode, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
Dans cet épisode, poète et bénéficiare d'une bourse de la fondation Artist Protection Fund Bertony Louis parle avec Prof Charles Forsdick (Université de Liverpool) et Rachel Douglas (Université de Glasgow) de sa poésie, la situation actuelle en Haïti et sa nouvelle vie à Glasgow. Pour plus de détails, consultez la page des notes https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, recorded in May 2023 at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, Prof Isabella Corvino from the University of Perugia analyses the musical integration strategy of the Orchestra dei Braccianti. The orchestra brings together musicians, farmers and workers from all over the world, united by their working situation in the Italian fields.
For the full show notes, including links to the music, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This week's episode is a soundscape created by UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist Erdem Avşar from recordings he made in the bay of Camas Tuath on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. The UNESCO RILA team and GRAMNet travel to Camas every year on a researcher development trip and this soundscape has captured the space and some of the activities that happened during those trip in 2022 and 2023.
In Erdem's words:
"Camas is not a place that you go to. But one that you carry with and within you. In a world (the ‘academic’ world, the ‘artistic’ world, the ‘research’ world) where doing is tethered to speed, urgency, and deadlines, Camas in its generosity and magic gently suggests something else.
It is a landscape of work, solidarity, and presence that resists consumerism and that dizzying pace of living. It is a place of collective imagination, repair, restoration, and inspiration. Since my first time in Camas, I have been trying to come up with a different way of carrying Camas with me - and also of gifting its magic to others. I have found it in its sounds.
I have been very lucky to listen to Ralph sighing deeply, Nerea’s seal songs of longing and reunion, the wind blowing, Alison’s dramaturgy of dishes, the footsteps, Tawona’s wonderfully poetic mbira, the contagious laughter filling the room thanks to Esa and Tawona, the bell ringing, dry robe swooshing, all the gorgeous mischief, magic, and music generously shared by the Camas team, and the fire crackling, and crackling, and crackling.
For those who have been in Camas and soaked up its magic, all of this will be familiar. And that is the beauty of it: a familiar generosity that welcomes you and one that you pass on to others.
Here is a mix of ‘Sounds of Camas’ – sounds I recorded in 2022 and 2023. It is not a fancy soundscape. It is simple, imperfect, and windy. But it helps me (and hopefully it will help others as well) to remember, to dream, and to imagine otherwise.
Thanks to the Firepitters, the wonderful Camas team, and all the friends from the UNESCO RILA and GRAMNet who have contributed to the collection. "
Please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration to download our special listening sheet.
In this episode, Dr Hyab Yohannes interviews Prof Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya about her latest edited volume "Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage" and in particular her chapter "Safeguarding Afro-Sri Lankan Intangible Cultural Heritage". A conversation about music, language and the Indian Ocean slave trade.
For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
Today’s episode is a recording of a presentation from our Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, which took place in May 2023. We will be hearing from Kirstin Sonne about her research on Maltese integration practices through the "I Belong" programme. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
ይና ፖድካስት (podcast) ገሪ ጋብድ ተላቅስቶ ተርሲቲ። እና ተለያኹ በኒል፡ ጋብ ብሊንድ ህያብ ዮሓንስ ባሰረንታ ሃብታት ዘረእዝጊዲ አሰኹ ቆል ወንቀረዲ አንትሮና ህንበቲ። እን ቆል ወንቀሪል፡ ባሰረንቲ UNESCO RILAትልድ ኣኻኹ ባሰረንታ ሃብታት ጋብዲ ጎልያዲ ኒሰናኽር ህረብርና ኣዋይንዲ ነበርዲት በርበሮ ደገመኩ። እን ቆል ወንቀራ እንግልዝድ ለወትሶ ሸፍሸፍሶ ህንበኩ። እና ዒን ሓብረሩኽ (website) ኒልኻ ኣረርሰኩ። https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
We are making our podcast more multilingual! In this episode, in Blin, you will hear UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Habtat Zerezghi's thoughts on language, music and the Refugee Condition, interviewed by Dr Hyab Yohannes. A summary of the conversation is available in English in the show notes. Please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
This collaborative podcast episode was created by people with migration experience as part of a 2-day intensive Media Lab, run by Migrant Voice and the University of Glasgow. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, we are talking to our colleagues from the School of Education Lisa Bradley and Mindy Ptolemey, about their project Quilting for manifesting anti-colonial futures. For the full shownotes, including the registration link to sign up for the project, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.
This episode is the discussion that happened between Sarah Thomas, Nerea Bello, Piki Diamond and Erdem Avşar after we had finished recording the previous episode about Sarah's Book. Despite me waving my hands in the air, the conversation continued and it became such a nice discussion that we've decided to share it with you. Enjoy!
A wee bonus message for you all, as part of our digital advent calendar 2022. Full show notes, including the names of the speakers and the languages: https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this 7th episode in the series The Sounds of Good Books, Piki Diamond, Erdem Avşar and Nerea Bello speak with author Sarah Thomas about her book The Raven's Nest, belonging, language learning and indigeneity. For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers and a glossary of Piki's words in Te Reo Maori, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This time we have a travel book for you: Free to Go by Esa Aldegheri. Esa talks to Katherine Mackinnon and Hannah Rose Thomas about her journey and the writing of the book and ends with a short reading, to give you a sense of her writing style. Not to be missed! For the full show notes, including biographies, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode we hear from another visiting academic, Arianne Maraj, about her research on access to education for refugees in Quebec. Joining the conversation are Eva Hanna and Sawsan Abdelghany, both doing research in similar areas. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
Welcome to the first episode of our new series The sounds of our affiliates. In this episode you will hear visiting scholar Zoe Hogan in conversation with Pinar Aksu, Catrin Evans and Effie Samara. All four have done work and research in theatre and are discussing philosophical, ethical and political aspects of their work. For their bios, please see the show notes on our website https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
In this episode, Brittnee Leysen and Shanara Wallace take you on a journey from Alba (Scotland) to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Get comfortable, lean back, close your eyes and enjoy the journey!
This soundscape was first played at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022.
For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration
This is part 2 of the Dr Dan Fisher and Dr Hyab Yohannes' interview with Professor Alison Phipps about her experiences as the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The interview takes place in the context of the winding down of the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (2018-2022) and its soon-to-be-born third iteration. See E35 for the first half. For the show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
This episode was recorded on location at the Scottish Crannog Centre, an iron age museum in Kinross, Central Scotland. This summer, the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts ran a two-day Sustainability Takeover at the museum, featuring a range of sustainability-themed workshops and based around Dr Joanne Tippett and Fraser How’s project The RoundView. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
In this episode, Assoc Prof Caroline Lenette, Dr Gameli Tordzro and Dr Lucy Cathcart-Frödén discuss Caroline's latest book "Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization". For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
Interviewers Dr Dan Fisher and Dr Hyab Yohannes interview Professor Alison Phipps about her experiences as the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The interview takes place in the context of the winding down of the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (2018-2022) and its soon-to-be-born third iteration. For the full show notes please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
Bonus! In this episode, Aine McAllister tells us more about her background and the ideas that formed the basis for her poem (see episode 34 for more info). For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this track you will hear poems written by the three keynote poets - Nyashadzashe Chikumbu, Esa Aldegheri and Aine McAllister - we invited to the Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022 - "Our Shared Values". The poems were written on 11, 12 and 13 May 2022 respectively and reflect the poets' view of what happened at the event on those days. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
TW: death, suicide, rape, genocide, PTSD
In this episode, UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Robert McNeil gets interviews by Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow) and Rachel Kerr (King's College London) about his book Grave Faces: A Forensic Technician's Story of Gathering Evidence of Genocide in Bosnia. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
In this episode you will hear Christian Hanser discuss his mobile Tiny Campus and his thinking around pop-up hospitalities. Recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
This episode was recorded at the Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022 - "Our Shared Values" and is a guided workshop that is best done in pairs or small groups. In the first half, Saskia de Wildt explores ways to navigate conflicting values and ethics, before leading us on an exploration of our own in the second half. Tools needed: pen and paper. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Sawsan Al-Areeqe shares three of her poems in Arabic and English. For the full show notes with Sawsan's biography, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
Jason Oliver from the Scottish Crannog Centre talks about binary structures and a way forward after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tawona Sitholé reads out the Collaborative Keynote Listener Poem, created by participants of the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating in May 2021. For the transcript, please head over to https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
Listen to Laura Phillips' presentation A Settler View from Ongoing Colonized Lands, presented at the Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home global forum on 28 September 2021. For the best experience, also view Laura's slides on our Slideshare page [https://www.slideshare.net/secret/nlKI5Uu3viiFTk]. For Laura's biography and abstract, please see the show notes [https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts]
In this episode Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale will interview Dr Khawla Badwan on her latest book Language in a Globalised World: Social Justice Perspectives on Mobility and Contact, published by Palgrave McMillan in 2021. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this second episode of our series The Sounds of Good Books, Alison Phipps, Charles Forsdick and Tawona Sitholé continue their conversation with Prof David Gramling from the University of British Columbia, about his latest book The Invention of Multilingualism. Read the full show notes on our website: bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
This episode is a condensed version of a discussion we organised for Black History Month 2021, entitled Sensation of Blackness. Tawona Sitholé interviews Bella Matambanadzo, Ropafadzo Zinyuke and ShaNon Bobinger. Members of the audience also get involved. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this first episode of our new series The Sounds of Good Books, Alison Phipps, Charles Forsdick and Tawona Sitholé enter into conversation with Prof David Gramling from the University of British Columbia, about his latest book The Invention of Multilingualism. Read the full show notes on our website: https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
This episode is a condensed version of Neil Curtis's and Eve Haddow's discussion at Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home, which took place on 28-30 September 2021, in collaboration with Glasgow Museums. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this episode we have tried to capture some of the thinking that came out of the Opening Ceremony of Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home, which took place on 28-30 September 2021, in collaboration with Glasgow Museums. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
In this second episode recorded at the Scottish Crannog Centre in Kenmore, Scotland, during their storytelling weekend on 9 & 10 October 2021, you will hear songs and stories from different parts of the world. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this episode we have tried to capture the atmosphere of the Crannog Centre in Kenmore, Scotland, during their storytelling weekend on 9 & 10 October 2021. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
Episode 9 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021". This is a collection of words and the stories behind them, which were collected by Marzanna Antoniak for her workshop World Words at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2021. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
Episode 8 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021"
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.
For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
Episode 7 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021". CONTENT ADVISORY - This recording contains discussion of war, genocide and war crimes which some listeners may find upsetting.
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. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
This episode is a selection of poetry from the UNESCO RILA Spring School 2021, an event about the Arts of Integration, which took place on 16-28 May 2021. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
Episode 5 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021". This is a collection of reflections from Martha Orbach's two workshops "To Build a Home" at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2021. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
Episode 4 in the "Sounds of the Spring School 2021" series with Dr Argyro Kanaki based on her 25 May presentation at SS21. Introduction by Lauren Roberts.
Full show notes at https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
Episode 3 of our new series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021" is presented by Ken Gordon and Nazek Ramadan, based on their live interview on 25 May 2021.
For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/RILA_podcasts.
Episode 2 of our new series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021" is presented by Prof Anne Storch and Dr Angelika Mietzner (University of Cologne) and is based on their workshop on 20 May.
In our world the call for help is a daily occurrence: in a fundamentally disruptive world, a call for help needs to be received with action – of any kind. Hospitable practices are a means to resist, when the world falls apart and to reconstruct community.
For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
Episode 1 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021". This is a collection of sounds gathered during Tawona Sitholé's workshop "Comforting Sounds" at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2021. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this episode Fergus McNeil will tell us more about his song Shoemaker's Son, which he performed at the Solas Festival in 2019 as part of the UNESCO RILA strand of events. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
In this episode we will listen to three songs that were written and/or performed at events organised by the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts during the period 2017-2020. Presented by Tawona Sitholé, with music by Fergus McNeil, Farzane Zamen and Clare Robertson. For the full show notes, please see https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.
This is the last episode of a 5-part guest series entitled "What community means to you" made by Sadie Ryan, who makes the podcast Accentricity [www.accentricity-podcast.com], and Ken Gordon, who makes the podcast Refugee Voices Scotland [www.refugeevoicesscotland.com]. For the full show notes, please visit the website of the UNESCO Chair: [http://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts].
This is the 4th episode of a 5-part guest series entitled "What community means to you" made by Sadie Ryan, who makes the podcast Accentricity [www.accentricity-podcast.com], and Ken Gordon, who makes the podcast Refugee Voices Scotland [www.refugeevoicesscotland.com]. For the full show notes, please visit the website of the UNESCO Chair: [http://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts].
This is the 3rd episode of a 5-part guest series entitled "What community means to you" made by Sadie Ryan, who makes the podcast Accentricity [www.accentricity-podcast.com], and Ken Gordon, who makes the podcast Refugee Voices Scotland [www.refugeevoicesscotland.com]. For the full show notes, please visit the website of the UNESCO Chair: [http://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts].
This is the second episode of a five-part guest series entitled "What community means to you" made by Sadie Ryan, who makes the podcast Accentricity [www.accentricity-podcast.com], and Ken Gordon, who makes the podcast Refugee Voices Scotland [www.refugeevoicesscotland.com]. For the full show notes, please visit the website of the UNESCO Chair: [http://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts].
This episode is the first one of a 5 part guest series entitled "What community means to you" made by Sadie Ryan, who makes the podcast Accentricity [www.accentricity-podcast.com], and Ken Gordon, who makes the podcast Refugee Voices Scotland [www.refugeevoicesscotland.com]. For the full show notes, please visit the website of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts: [http://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts].
(23/01/18)A welcome from The Unesco Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, Prof Alison Phipps. This podcast provides a short introduction to the work of the Unesco Chair programme for the period 2018-2020.
UNESCO’s UNITWIN and Chairs programme promotes international cooperation and networking to mobilise collaboration around the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 and in key priority areas related to UNESCO’s fields of competence – education, natural and social sciences, culture and communication.
The UNESCO Chair supports learning from contexts which have long-term refugee and migratory experiences and where resilience has been developed, often in the face of overwhelming linguistic and cultural destruction. Working with our cross-sectorial partners, we engage in research and advocacy for creative and artistic approaches to integration, which sustain linguistic and cultural diversity, foster creativity and intercultural capabilities and promote peace.
For the transcript of this episode, please visit our website: https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts
Tawona Sitholé, Artist in Residence with the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, introduces his poem Cape Coast Caper. In 2019, Tawona visited Elmina slave castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, as part of the MIDEQ project. In this poem, he shares that experience. It is being released here to mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2020. For more information about this podcast, please visit our website https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.