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CANCELLED On the need to fragment interculturality in research and education
22 May 2024, 1:30 pm–2:30 pm
Due to unexpected circumstances, Fred Dervin's in-person seminar is cancelled. The organisers are looking into an online option with Fred and will send an update nearer the time. We apologise for any inconvenience.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Fotini Diamantidaki
Location
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102 - Drama StudioUCL IOE20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0AL
Join this event to hear Fred Dervin share his latest perspectives on the notion of interculturality based on 25 years of researching and teaching the notion in different parts of the world.
In this seminar, Professor Dervin will use the notion of 'fragment' to call for approaches to interculturality that side with its central characteristics, such as instabilities-balancing, ideological colouring-invisibilities and paradoxes-parroting.
He also argues that taking into account the (often ignored) power of languaging with and for interculturality is a must in a neoliberal Englishised world. Examples from both research and education will be used to illustrate fragmenting the notion.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, academics, teachers and students.
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About the Speaker
Professor Fred Dervin
Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland
He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility.
He has widely published in different languages (over 170 articles and 70 books).