Events

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 2019 as International Year of Indigenous Languages. The UMB Writing Center, Center for Global Education Initiatives, and Office of International Services have officially joined the worldwide programming with a discussion of decolonial perspectives and practices in health and human services education here at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Come and learn about the Indian Child Welfare Act and its connections to current health and human services education and practice before engaging in a curated dialogue focused on how we, as students, faculty, and practitioners can work with Indigenous communities to provide more equitable health, legal, and human services.

This Civic Conversation explores the socio-cultural and linguistic impact on language policies and practices in NI of global events generated by changes to EU policies, Brexit and the refugee crisis. It will celebrate 2019 as the year of Indigenous Languages and be chaired by Prof. Karen Corrigan, Newcastle University. Invited speakers will be experts in the fields of indigenous and community languages as well as practitioners who work with ethnolinguistic minorities in Northern Ireland and further afield.

Lecture of Professor Gustavo Gomes Araujo (University of Heidelberg) and Professor Maxwell Miranda (Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso – UFMT – per video conference) about the Indigenous Languages of Brazil and the Challenges of the Intercultural Education nowadays.

Panelists will share how they navigate the boundaries between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds in a multilingual panel discussion with several people from Kichwa and Waorani communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two generations of Indigenous people will speak in a combination of English, Spanish, Kichwa, and Wao Terero about their perspectives of future, present, and past. Moderators will translate the webinar to English as much as possible. The webinar will include a discussion about the Andes and Amazon Field School (https://i-spartnerships.com/), where students and researchers are invited by Indigenous peoples to co-produce knowledge through exchanges of language, culture, and projects.

The NZARE Conference is three full days from Monday 18 to Wednesday 20 November, hosted by University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha. Our theme, “Te ha o te Takata”, challenges researchers, educators and stakeholders to critically engage with questions about ‘what is working’ and ‘what is not’ in the many facets of education that impact on our tamariki (children) and rangatahi (adolescents) in centres, schools and tertiary learning, both within in Aotearoa/NZ and internationally.