What lies beneath? COVID-19 and the racial politics of face masks

Jul 16, 2020 | COVID-19, News, UNITWIN Network

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

Jul 8, 2020 | News

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

Jul 7, 2020 | Event, News, UNESCO, UNITWIN Network

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

Jun 29, 2020 | News, UNESCO, UNITWIN Network

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

Jun 10, 2020 | 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...

New Article: Intrinsic Religiosity of Shiite Muslims in Russia

Jun 8, 2020 | Publications

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

Jun 8, 2020 | Conference, Event, UNESCO

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.

Jun 5, 2020 | Conference, UNESCO

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

Jun 2, 2020 | COVID-19, UNESCO

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,...