As the summer disappears behind us we'd like to let you know of a few things we've been doing and planning over the last couple of months.

WARM WELCOME WALKS 2020 

This year our Warm Welcome Walks will comprise three walks. For full information see our events section - a summary is below:

Warm Welcome Walk 1: Well-being of the Woods - a photography walk 
Sunday 20 September, 11:00-12:30 at Pollok Country Park
Hosted by Open Aye, this is a hands-on photography walk for those who would like to find out more about the Well-being of the Woods (WOW) project or who would like to spend a late-morning in nature taking pictures. Limited capacity! FREE mandatory registration through Eventbrite. Link to registration: https://www2020_1.eventbrite.co.uk/ 
 
Warm Welcome Walk 2: Glasgow and Slavery
Online available as a self-guided tour - duration: about 2 hours
This is a self-guided tour, which means you will be guided by text and images on your phone or tablet.  This tour of the Merchant City and City Centre of Glasgow is focused around the history of slavery in the city. A series of images and descriptions will teach you about a selection of buildings with strong links to slavery. Join this tour to find some hidden gems and to discover more about the buildings we pass on a regular basis. The tour was created by Christine Whyte, Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow. Link to tour: https://www.theclio.com/tour/1431 
 
Warm Welcome Walk 3 - Tour of Maryhill: stories from people
Online available as a self-guided tour - duration: about 1 hour
This tour will show you Maryhill through the eyes of the local New Scots. Created by members of the Maryhill Integration Network, it will show you places that are important to the local residents and will regale you with their personal stories. You think you know Maryhill? Think again! Maryhill is one of the main dispersal areas for people seeking asylum and refuge in Glasgow. For many years, people from all over the world settled in Maryhill; is part of the wider Glasgow community and many New Scots call Maryhill their home. Link to tour: https://theclio.com/tour/1560 

New PhD candidate: Hannah Rose Thomas

We welcome Hannah to our team in October as our new MIDEQ / UNESCO ARTLAB / UNESCO RILA PhD candidate. Hannah was awarded our MIDEQ PhD Studentship ‘Evaluating the human and social Impact of Art for migratory and marginalized people – An Intercultural, Multilingual Approach to Equity.’ Her research interest is in investigating the restorative and transformative potential of the arts to support conflict-affected and migratory communities to reconcile, to heal the past and to re-build a future. Read more about Hannah's work on our research student pages: Hannah Thomas 

MIDEQ Blog posts

MIDEQ works with a global network of partners in twelve countries in the Global South, organised into six migration ‘corridors’, to transform understanding of the relationships between migration, development and inequality. The University of Glasgow team is working on cross-cutting work package Arts, creative resistance and well-being: to create migratory aesthetics, demonstrating how the arts and humanities can expand social-scientific and scientific frames of reference for research into migration and inequality, creating environments where human well-being is valued and flourishes.

The team have published several posts on the MIDEQ blog, a summary with links is availabe on our new blog section: Blog 

Black History Month 2020

As part of Black History Month 2020 we've teamed up with partners from the global south to bring you a range of activities that will work your mental muscles. All events will be online through Zoom and will entirely free to attend. Registration through Eventbrite is mandatory to obtain the Zoom link.

Quick summary:

  • 20th of October at 2pm: Dr Gameli Tordzro, Prof Kofi Anyidoho and Kojo Yankah will be debating who qualifies to tell the African Story and how it must be told. Link: BHM 2020
  • 21st of October at 2pm: Naa Densua Tordzro and Chandra Brooks will be leading a virtual workshop around shared stories of textiles and quilting. Link: BHM 2020
  • 22nd of October at 2pm: Martin Plaut, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé and student representatives will be discussing Plaut's latest book on Dr Abdurahman and anti-racism in South Africa. Link: BHM 2020
  • 22nd of October at 5pm: Tawona Sitholé, Stephen Chinhuwo and Alison Phipps will be discussing the relevance of the Great Zimbabwe's UNESCO designation for the local community and the ways in which UNESCO’s work and research helps to correct colonial assumptions about important sites and civilizations. Link: BHM 2020

Our MOOC is still available and free to join! 

The UNESCO RILA team developed Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World a couple of years ago as part of the Researching Multilingually project and we want to let you know that it is still available on the FutureLearn platform.  Please note that this course is not currently being facilitated, however all the materials remain available to work through.

Registration is FREE at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/multilingual

Conferences

Refugee Scholars Conference by STAR 5 & 6 October 

This online event, organised by graduates from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds with the support of Student Action for Refugees (STAR) and Universities of Sanctuary, will be an opportunity for students from across the country to come together and share their experiences of higher education. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-scholars-conference-tickets-120170331697

Universities of Sanctuary conference 13 & 14 October 

Unesco Chair Prof Alison Phipps will give a Keynote at the annual UoS conference on 13 October. This conference is an opportunity for the network to come together, share best practice and learn from each other. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universities-of-sanctuary-2020-conference-tickets-119729705773

First published: 17 September 2020

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