What lies beneath? COVID-19 and the racial politics of face masks
This opinion piece has been written by Scheherazade Bloul, PhD candidate to Professor Fethi Mansouri, UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice and coauthored by Dr Shakira Hussein, a researcher based at the University of Melbourne. This piece was...
FSCIRE Postdoctoral Fellowships 2020
Applications are now open for Post Doctoral Fellowships on Riba in Islamic thought and promoted by the Fondazione per le scienze religiose (FSCIRE), Italy. FSCIRE Postdoctoral Fellowships 2020 co-funded by Banca d’Italia | The ribā in classical...
XVIII International Forum: World Heritage and Contamination
Professor Carmine Gambardella, UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance is pleased to advise the XVIII International Forum will be held in late September 2020. With the support of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in...
WebGIS UniTwin/UNESCO Chairs Programme
Professor Carmine Gambardella, UNESCO Chairholder on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance, President and CEO of the Benecon University Consortium, including five Italian Universities, (www.benecon.it) has the pleasure to inform you that the UNESCO...
Coronaspection: Reflecting on the spiritual challenges and opportunities of COVID-19
This post is provided by Alon Goshen-Gottstein, UNESCO Chair in Interfaith Studies and Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. Dear Friends, Shalom Some of you will surely have already received Elijah's recent newsletter, with the announcement of the release of...
New Article: Intrinsic Religiosity of Shiite Muslims in Russia
New paper authored by Professor Dimitri Spivak, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue and co-authored by Professor Guylchokhra Seyidova and Dr Alina Venkova The paper presents results of a mass...
Conference: Cooperation of UNESCO Chairs for Strategic Planning and Sustainable Development
Post provided by Professor Dimitri Spivak, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue On 5 June, 2020, the Chair took part at a National Web Conference entitled Cooperation of UNESCO Chairs for...
Conference : Contemporary Paradigmatic Problems of Education at the Eurasian Region.
Professor Dimitri Spivak, UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue provides a short summary of the international scientific web conference, held on 29 May 2020 and jointly organised by Mirzo...
The socio-cultural implications of Covid-19
Professor Fethi Mansouri, UNESCO Chairholder for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at Deakin University and UNITWIN Convenor for Inter-religious Dialogue and Intercultural Understanding, shares his views on the socio-cultural implications of COVID-19. Worldwide,...
Official launch of the UNESCO Forum
The COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on societies, challenging what we thought were fundamental truths. Given that the pandemic is ongoing, and no one knows how it will end, it is all the more urgent that we take time to think. Indeed, these events have revealed...
What does it mean to be a student during COVID-19?
This reflective piece has been provided by Ms Brittany Banna who is currently completing a double masters at the University of Oregon and works as Assistant to Professor Steven Shankman, UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace...
Global implications of Covid-19
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed by Iman Riman and Manal al-Ani on SBS Arabic 24 Radio. To listen to the full interview in Arabic, please click here.