Building an Intercultural Pedagogy for Higher Education in Conditions of Conflict and Protracted Crises: Languages, Identity, Culture!
Prof. John Corbett’s (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) plenary speech at the IALIC 2019 conference in Valencia entitled.
Revisiting Mediation
In his plenary speech, John draws upon the case studies from the BIPHEC project to illustrate how cultural mediation through intercultural dialogue is facilitated across cultural heritage, language, culture, and intercultural communication. The case studies conceptualise the academy—in areas as diverse as Bogota, Durham, Gaza and Istanbul—as mediating between higher education and members of communities who have been economically and politically marginalised. These case studies thus involve different layers of mediation, which can be unpacked, reviewed and critically evaluated.”
The Literature and Poetry Festival held at Gaza
BIPHEC Gaza presentation; see more here.
The third and final BIPHEC project meeting took place at Durham University from 20 to 22 October 2019. This meeting provided an opportunity for all the project members, new members, and advisors to assemble to discuss the completion/final steps in developing their case studies. Co-investigators presented their case studies and any remaining challenges were discussed. […]
The second BIPHEC meeting was held in Bogotá, Colombia from 29 to 31 May, 2019 at the University of the Andes. BIPHEC co-investigators presented the development of their case studies focusing on the arts and humanities and critical pedagogies: e.g., music (Istanbul University); creative writing (Islamic University of Gaza); drama and theatre games (University of […]
The first meeting of BIPHEC took place at the University of Istanbul, from 23 to 25 February. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss the key concepts of the project and the details of its implementation as well as to establish a synergy between the investigators of the project. The meeting provided the […]
