Thanks to UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 for the amazing opportunity of being the keynote poet for the last day of the UNESCO-RILA Spring School 2024. It was such an enriching and full of emotions experience. #rila2024 #rilaspring24
Dr Aila Spathopoulou and Dr Dr Esa Aldegheri 🧡 migration is life are among the speakers today at UNESCO RILA Spring School with their presentation, 'Across and against borders: shifting hierarchies of language, migration and travel.' #RILASpring24 #Borders #Refugees #Migration eventbrite.co.uk/e/unesco-rila-…
Last day of #RILASpring24 Conference✨ Keynotes today from Livia Vitalino, a secondary teacher promoting inclusive environments where students have their voices heard And Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ offering a call and no response to examine our words and find meaning again
Day 3 #RILASpring24: Azerbaijani tea ceremony (with thyme!), embodying a poem w/Tawona Sithole, translating from Ukrainian w/James Rann UofG Modern Languages & Cultures , destroying walls w/ Frank O'Hagan& meditating on language encounters in our own Lavinia Hirsu Karen SCILT soundwalk keynote 💚
Day 3 of #RILASpring24 Conference! Another day packed full of wonderful and creative ways of celebrating or critically thinking about language✨ Todays keynotes are from Refuweegee 🧡 and Lavinia Hirsu Dobrochna Futro Karen Faulds and Fhiona Mackay
I was lucky enough to run a workshop at #RILASpring24, where participants gave me kindness in abundance, offering up their insight and experiences of overcoming language hierarchies in our lives and work UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ Heidy Perez Adrianne Kalfopoulou Hyab Yohannes Tesfalem H. Yemane
Isn’t this creativity from Dr. Nic Dickson just outstanding🤩! Created during Bonnie Slade workshop on using Readers’ Theatre to examine language hierarchies A fantastic interactive experience that brought research to life at the #RILASpring24 conference
Keynote from Giovanna Fassetta 🍉🕊️ and Maria, reflecting 10 years of collaboration with colleagues in the Gaza strip, Palestine- I can't find the right words to describe how moving it was to hear and witness the emotions. Hope that is carried at times of destruction... #RILASpring24
Still thinking about the first day of #RILASpring24 Conference UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 Moving, powerful, emotions, and creative. Listening to research on belonging, migration, communities, and 'blossoming'. How can we continue being imaginative at times of pain?
A beautiful morning in Glasgow and we are ready for another #RILASpring24 conference day ☀️ We have two wonderful key notes today This morning with Professor Prue Holmes Durham University and PhD candidate Dalya Saleh This afternoon Ala Sirriyeh from Lancaster University
So excited to join Bonnie Slade tomorrow UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 using Readers’ Theatre to examine language hierarchies and meaning making. I’ll ‘live’ visually scribe & participants will be invited to perform, & critically reflect on, migrant professionals’ experiences 👇#RILASpring24
At UofG Unesco RILA 🧡 today Byres Community Hub showcasing images from our University of Glasgow scottishgov Diversifying Justice work. Shared the visual notes I drew to capture and disseminate our findings and a glimpse of the incredible comic book illustrations by Sophia Neilson #RILASpring24
A fantastic start to the #RILASpring24 Conference with the planting of a ‘tree of peace’ 🤍 Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ led this beautiful walk this morning on the University of Glasgow campus
It’s almost time for the #RILASpring24 Conference! Tomorrow we kick off with a keynote from Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ then another with Giovanna Fassetta 🍉🕊️ and Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale✨ What are you excited for most this week?
