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Practising ethics in international engagement
24 January 2023, 1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Join this interactive webinar to collectively rethink and reshape how we engage with our international publics.
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Barbara Lipietz, The Bartlett Vice-Dean International
‘Ethics’ is at the heart of our teaching & learning, research, and public engagement - or so it should be. Yet in practice, ethics too often gets addressed primarily through the lens of procedural requirements, which provide only partial guidance for thinking through the critical questions of who we engage with, for what purpose(s), and on what terms. Thinking and practising ethics in international engagement, moreover, raises additional challenges related to inequalities in the political economy of producing and accessing knowledge. How, then, can we co-construct ethical principles and practices in international engagement that contribute to addressing systemic inequalities? What are the levers of change we can individually and collectively push to expand our ethical practice in, and through, our teaching/learning, research, and public engagement?
This is the second webinar in the Bartlett Publics: Pluralising series hosted and chaired by The Bartlett’s Vice Dean International, Barbara Lipietz. The series seeks to facilitate cross-learning on the principles and practices of international engagement better able to catalyse universities’ ‘public’ role and societal relevance.
About the Speakers
Adriana Allen
Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
Adriana Allen is Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, where she teaches and researches in the fields of development planning, socio-environmental justice, and feminist political ecology. Since 2019, she is the President of Habitat International Coalition, a global alliance of social movements, activists, and support organisations who fight for social justice, gender equality and environmental sustainability in defence of habitat-related human rights.
Jane Rendell
Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture
Jane Rendell is Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she co-developed the “Practising Ethics” website with Dr David Roberts and Dr Yael Padan as part of the Bartlett’s Ethics Commission and Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) programme. practisingethics.org hosts numerous resources (principles, protocols, processes, and practices) for built environment academics and practitioners and won a RIBA President’s Award for Research (Ethics and Education) in 2021. Her research crosses architecture, art, feminism, history, and psychoanalysis.
More about Jane RendellMaha Shuayb
Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies at University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Maha Shuayb is the British Academy Bilateral Chair in Conflict and Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She co-founded the Lebanese Association for History and the Disability Research and Advocacy Hub which are housed at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. Both initiatives aim to create collectives that bring together academics, practitioners, and policy makers to work together on these themes.
Mahaman Tidjani Alou
Research Professor in Political Science at Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey, Faculty of Economics and Law
Mahaman Tidjani Alou is Research Professor in political science at the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey, Faculty of Economics and Law. He is also working as researcher at LASDEL (Laboratory of Studies and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development), which he led from 2001 until 2007. His areas of expertise include public policy, sociology of state institutions, constitutional law, anthropology, international relations, and development.