COVID-19 news and analysis
Invitation: Webinar – 30 June 2021 – “UNESCO’s Survey on COVID-19: reopening and reimagining universities
Dear UNITWIN Network Coordinators and UNESCO Chair holders, After the unprecedented growth in higher education in the last decade, the education of more than 220 million tertiary students was suddenly disrupted due to the COVID-19 driven university closures....
Forthcoming International Conference: “Religious Institutions and Practices during the COVID Pandemics: Challenges and Answers”
The following conference information is provided by Dr. Laura Yerekesheva (Prof., al Farabi Kazakh National University. (Almaty, Kazakhstan) The conference is organized within the frames of the research project “Religious Institutions and Practice in Kazakhstan in the...
Journal Article: Racism and Nationalism during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic
New Journal Article by Professor Fethi Mansouri, Dr Amanuel Elias, Mr Jehonathan Ben and Professor Yin Paradies. Racism and xenophobia associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disproportionately affect migrants and minority groups worldwide. They exacerbate...
Pándēmos! All Under the Same Heaven!
The following article is provided by Dr Gerald Cipriani, Honorary Professor to the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue. To most, giving an opinion on a natural phenomenon amounts to semantic...
New Article: Reading Levinas and Talmud in a Time of Plague: A Poetic Approach.
Professor Steven Shankman, UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace has recently published an essay (with original poems) in the online journal Tikkun: The Prophetic, Jewish, Interfaith & Secular Voice to Transform and Heal the...
Virtual Conference: UN International Day of Peace 2020
Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently invited to participate as a plenary speaker at the UN International Day of Peace Virtual Conference. Professor Mansouri presented on critical reflections on World peace / International relations in the context of the emerging...
Presentation: Multiculturalism and Global Citizenship in a post COVID19 World: The role of global youth in emerging/post-covid recovery agenda
Professor Fethi Mansouri gave a keynote presentation on 10 September to the Y20, the Youth Engagement Arm of the G20 Group. The presentation was titled ‘Multiculturalism and Global Citizenship in a post Covid-19 World: The role of global youth in...
COVID’s Metamorphoses
Following is a deeply reflective piece conveying a message of hope and resistance to other Covid 19 patients from Dr Hassan Nadhem, UNESCO Chair on the Development of Inter-religious Dialogue Studies in the Islamic World, based at the University of Kufa. Dr Nadhem was...
New Briefing Paper: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Covid-19: Exploring the Role of ICD in Emerging Responses
Through inductive exploration of authentic, local, community responses to the COVID-19 crisis, this brief examines the new context in which the ICD agenda is being pursued, complementing the many existing quantitative analyses of the socio-cultural impact of...
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...