Engaging intercultural creativity through Multiple Selves as the Muse Approach
Join this event to explore a series of conversations and interactions across time, space, place, and community between Professor Phan Le Ha and her Inner-Voice.
Engaging intercultural creativity through Multiple Selves as the Muse Approach
14 May 2026, 13:00 – 14:00
This session engages intercultural creativity in the context of the internationalisation of higher education from “Multiple Selves as the Muse Approach” – a unique and original theorisation Phan Le Ha has developed from her academic and creative works.
Informed by this approach, the session shapes itself through a series of conversations and interactions across time, space, place, and community between Phan Le Ha and her Inner-Voice. “Multiple Selves as the Muse Approach” highlights the importance of creatively engaging and incorporating the self’s dialogues with everyday unplanned and organically occurring encounters in researching intercultural communication and the internationalisation of higher education.
By blending scholarly and creative genres in a rather unique manner through multiple selves, she aspires to show an exemplary case of inter/cultural encounters at every level of conceptualisation, theorisation, methodology, epistemology, knowledge production, and writing.
This event will be particularly useful to interculturalists, decolonial scholars, applied linguists, creative practitioners and curious minds.
International Centre for Intercultural Studies UCL200 seminar series 2026
This event is part of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies Seminar Series 2026, titled ‘Intercultural Creativity: exploring the potential offered by intercultural creativity as praxis’. In this series, we invite a number of leading academics, working across the fields of intercultural communication and creative arts, to share their work.
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Professor Phan Le Ha
Honorary Professor
UCL Institute of Education
Professor Phan Le Ha has been living and working in different countries, including Vietnam, Australia, USA, and Brunei Darussalam. Currently, she is Professor at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, and Honorary Professor at UCL Institute of Education. Alongside her academic interests in transnational and international education, higher education, TESOL, and identity and mobility studies, she has also written novels, poems and song lyrics in Vietnamese.
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