Episode 2 of our new series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021" is presented by Prof Anne Storch and Dr Angelika Mietzner (University of Cologne) and is based on their workshop on 20 May.  

In our world the call for help is a daily occurrence: in a fundamentally disruptive world, a call for help needs to be received with action – of any kind. Hospitable practices are a means to resist, when the world falls apart and to reconstruct community. 

For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

The Sounds of the Spring School 2021

E11 - Reciprocity and the senses: a reply to mayday

Episode 3 of our new series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021" is presented by Ken Gordon and Nazek Ramadan, based on their live interview on 25 May 2021.

For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/RILA_podcasts.

E12 - Interview with Nazek Ramadan

Episode 4 in the "Sounds of the Spring School 2021" series with Dr Argyro Kanaki based on her 25 May presentation at SS21. Introduction by Lauren Roberts. 

Full show notes at https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E13 - The Art of Integration: M'Aidez, May Day and MacIntyre

Episode 7 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021".
CONTENT ADVISORY - This recording contains discussion of war, genocide and war crimes which some listeners may find upsetting.

UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artists Robert McNeil MBE and I.D. Campbell, describe and reflect on their artwork which remembers the atrocities of Srebrenica and the Bosnian war. The discuss the power of art as
a means to express, process, mediate and communicate the most extreme of experiences.
For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E16 - Artists on Conflict

Episode 9 of series "The Sounds of the Spring School 2021".
This is a collection of words and the stories behind them, which were collected by Marzanna Antoniak for her workshop World Words at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2021. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts.

E18 - World Words

UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Sawsan Al-Areeqe shares three of her poems in Arabic and English. For the full show notes with Sawsan's biography, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

The Sounds of Integration

E30 - Poetry by Sawsan Al-Areeqe

This episode was recorded at the Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022 - "Our Shared Values" and is a guided workshop that is best done in pairs or small groups. In the first half, Saskia de Wildt explores ways to navigate conflicting values and ethics, before leading us on an exploration of our own in the second half. Tools needed: pen and paper. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

The Sounds of the Spring School

Exploring polar bear research as an ethical space, process and practice of engagement.

E31 - Exploring Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice and Process of Engagement

Interviewers Dr Dan Fisher and Dr Hyab Yohannes interview Professor Alison Phipps about her experiences as the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The interview takes place in the context of the winding down of the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (2018-2022) and its soon-to-be-born third iteration. For the full show notes please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E35 - Alison Phipps on the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (part 1)

This episode was recorded on location at the Scottish Crannog Centre, an iron age museum in Kinross, Central Scotland. This summer, the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts ran a two-day Sustainability Takeover at the museum, featuring a range of sustainability-themed workshops and based around Dr Joanne Tippett and Fraser How’s project The RoundView.  For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts

E37 - The RoundView Sustainability Takeover at the Scottish Crannog Centre With Dr Joanne Tippett

In this episode, Brittnee Leysen and Shanara Wallace take you on a journey from Alba (Scotland) to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Get comfortable, lean back, close your eyes and enjoy the journey!

This soundscape was first played at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022.

For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E39 - Immersive Soundscape: From Alba to Aotearoa

Dans cet épisode, poète et bénéficiare d'une bourse de la fondation Artist Protection Fund Bertony Louis parle avec Prof Charles Forsdick (Université de Liverpool) et Rachel Douglas (Université de Glasgow) de sa poésie, la situation actuelle en Haïti et sa nouvelle vie à Glasgow. Pour plus de détails, consultez la page des notes https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E55: APF Fellow Bertony Louis sur la poésie, Haïti et la vie a Glasgow

E55 - APF Fellow Bertony Louis sur la poésie, Haïti et sa vie a Glasgow

At the UNESCO RILA Spring School 2023: The Arts of Integrating, held in May 2023, 4 keynote poets captured the event in a poem. They are Marzanna Antoniak, Chantelle Warner, Anita Govan and S'phongo. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E57 - Poetry by the keynote poets of the Spring School 2023

TW from around 41:30: rape and trauma

In this episode we look at the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, which was published in February 2023. It is a conversation between one of the editors (Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi) and four chapter authors (Himadri Chatterjee, Agnes Woolley, Sydney Van To and Asha Varadharajan). Topics that get covered are the relationship between narrative and literature, between fiction and non-fiction, questions around witnessing and forgetting, traumatic repetition, the need to categorise, questions of audience, of purpose, individual versus communal trauma and contradiction within the narratives.

Sociopolitical, historical, literary and legal perspectives all get covered in this fascinating discussion.

For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

The Sounds of Good Books

The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

E58 - The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

On 14 October 2023, the UNESCO RILA team participated in the Fairies and Folktales event, held at New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site during the October week. Hope Wang, PhD candidate with the UNESCO RILA team, wrote a story for the event. Listen to her story and ask yourself: what is your utopia?

Want to come and see New Lanark for yourself? Why not join our family-friendly event Shared Spaces: Migration Past & Present on 16 November: https://bit.ly/RILA_JoinUs

The Sounds of the UNESCO Trail

Annie's Utopia: Weaving Dreams and Creating Change in New Lanark

E59 - Annie's Utopia: Weaving Dreams and Creating Change in New Lanark

Listen to Esa Aldegheri interview Avril Bellinger and Deirdre Ford about their book 'The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives'. An incredibly uplifting conversation, just what we need in these challenging times. Can you hear the creaking chair?

Avril Bellinger, Honorary Associate Professor in Social Work, University of Plymouth UK, is an academic activist, international volunteer, founder of Students and Refugees Together (START), co-author of  The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives, grandmother and allotmenteer.

Deirdre Ford is a registered social worker, associate of Research in Practice, trustee of Students and Refugees Together (START) and co-author of The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives.

Buy the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-strengths-approach-in-practice
Full show notes: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

The Strengths Approach in Practice

E61 - The Strengths Approach in Practice

In this episode, Narjes Hashemi is interviewing two members of the Afghan community in Canada about their work to preserve Afghan cultural heritage. For the full show notes, please visit:https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Narjes Hashemi on Afghan refugees in Canada

E62 - Narjes Hashemi on Afghan refugees in Canada

Afamba apota is a Zimbabwean proverb recited to remind ourselves of the unpredictability of going on a journey. This radio play is a playful look at the important matter of migration. Join self-proclaimed master documentary maker Paul Lamont as he enters the migration corridor and meets the inhabitants.

Created by members of the Mideq team, a full list of credits can be found on the Mideq website: https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/afamba-apota/

For the show notes and the transcript of this episode, please visithttps://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Afamba Apoto - radioplay by Tawona Sitholé

E64 - Afamba Apota: a radio play about migration

This is the first of a two part episode in which Dr Dan Fisher talks with Sawsan Abdelghany and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL interpretation in asylum appeals. In this part, Sawsan and Dan are interviewing Adam.

Adam Williamson is a freelance translator and interpreter based in Paris, where he works with English, Spanish and French. He began his interpreting career in the asylum system in Glasgow, where he encountered a variety of challenging circumstances and ethically compromising situations for which he felt his interpreter training had not fully prepared him. These experiences led him to complete an MPhil by research at the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of the UNESCO RILA team. Chiefly drawing on participant observation and interviews, his study looks at the mismatch between the expectations of interpreters in the asylum context and the reality on the ground. The research also includes a series of recommendations which will feed into the third iteration of the Scottish Government’s New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy.

For the full transcript, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Adam Williamson on interpretation in the UK asylum system

E65 - Adam Williamson on interpretation in the UK asylum system

This is the second of a two part conversation between Dr Dan Fisher, and researchers Sawsan Abdelghany, and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL in the asylum system. In this episode, Dan and Adam are interviewing Sawsan.

Sawsan Abdelghany is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, and a heritage language tutor. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters in TESOL and has worked as an English-Arabic interpreter for asylum seekers and refugees in the Scottish legal system. Her research interests centre around the role of language in helping refugees to integrate.

E66 - Sawsan Abdelghany on ESOL and the New Scots Refugee Strategy

This episode is a rerecording of a session we hosted at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2023, hosted by By Nadine Malcolm (Due North Studio), Lee McNeish (University of Edinburgh) and Cáit O'Neill McCullagh (independent artist). "Who Are We Now?" explores the destruction, and subsequent emergence, of culture in the northern Highlands, centred around the concepts of agency and ownership, and how destruction creates space for the new. How does learning about loss help give agency over the destruction of the Highland Clearances, and through that, create space for communities to forge their own present and futures. Asking the question; how has our culture loss and destruction led us to be who we are now, and what does that look like? In the true spirit of the ceilidh, this work by its very nature should be collaborative. Whilst providing a framework, Nadine, Lee and Cáit invite community groups and individuals to reflect creatively on these topics to present a lively and open exploration of modern Highland identity.

For the full show notes, including biographies, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Who Are We Now? An exploration of modern Highland identity.

E68 - Who Are We Now? An exploration of modern Highland identity

In this episode, James Rann and Katherine Mackinnon from the University of Glasgow introduce their project 'Власними словами | In Our Own Words', which is a project that brings Ukrainians in Glasgow together with other Glaswegians and uses creative writing and multilingual translation to build confidence, community and mutual understanding. For more information about the project and the speakers, please go to the show notes: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Власними словами | In Our Own Words: Multilingual Translation Workshops

E67 - Власними словами | In Our Own Words: Multilingual Translation Workshops

Margot Leys Johnston interviews Dr Hyab Yohannes from the UNESCO RILA team about his research into the 'refugee condition'. For the full show notes, including short biographies, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Reimagining the Refugee Condition

E69 - Reimagining the Refugee Condition

This episode was recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024. In it, Gillebrìde Mac'IlleMhaoil / Gilbert MacMillan shares stories from South Uist and surrounding islands, as well as some Gaelic songs. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Gaelic and the Refugee Experience

E70 - Gaelic and the refugee experience

In this episode, UNESCO RIELA PhD researcher Pinar Aksu discusses her workshop at the RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 (Word Springs). Pinar's PhD research looks at the connection between art and law in the context of migration and how arts practices can be part of creating social change, as well as access to justice within the immigration system. Her workshop explored the language used to describe migration in headlines, legislation, policies, and by lawyers, and invited participants to bring the language of the law to life - and to create an alternative. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

"The Language of the Law" with Pinar Aksu

E72 - "The Language of the Law" with Pinar Aksu

This episode is a recording of a session entitled 'Exploring creative, cross-cultural research collaborations: A case study of an MSF run thalassemia clinic in Lebanon', which was meant to take place at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2023, but which was cancelled because of the situation in Lebanon at the time. Dr Molly Gilmour has now kindly shared the research that she conducted, together with her colleagues Belal Shukair, Fatima Fouad and Nader Tabri. 

For the full show notes, including bios of the speakers, the presentation slides and images of the project, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Molly Gilmour on cross-cultural research collaboration in Lebanon

E73 - Molly Gilmour on cross-cultural research collaboration in Lebanon

This episode is a collection of 4 poems, written by the 4 keynote listeners Erdem Avşar, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Herbert Cea and Heidi Perez-Cordero, who each summarised a day of the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024, a large conference which takes place every year in May in Glasgow. For more information about the event, please visit bit.ly/RILASpring24. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.

Poetry by the keynote poets of the Spring School 2024

E74 - Poetry by the keynote poets of the Spring School 2024

In this episode, Alison Phipps interviews Ravi Kohli, Sharon McGregor and Christine Uwase about the Drawing Together project, a project that looked at the relational wellbeing in the lives of young refugees in Scotland, Finland and Norway. For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers and links to the project, please visit: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.

Rough timings of this episode's content:

0 to 4 mins: Alison introduces the Drawing Together project team
4 to 12 mins: Ravi introduces the project and Alison responds
12 to 17 mins: Sharon reflects on the participants and project methodology and Alison’s reflections and questions
17 to 20 mins: Sharon explains the meaning behind some of the participants’ art objects and Alison’s reflections.
20 to 26.5 mins: Ravi explains the rationale behind past/present/future time dimensions and Alison’s reflections and questions.
26.5 to 28.5mins: Ravi reflects on the ‘past’ time dimension and Alison’s reflections.
28.5 to 30mins: Sharon reflects on the past methodology and Alison’s questions.
30 to 37mins: Christine explains her ambassador role on the project and Alisons’ reflections and questions
37 to 41mins: Christine reflects on the international visit to Norway to meet the Norwegian and Finnish teams and Alison’s response
41 to 43.34mins: Alison’s closing remarks, thanks and invitation for recording a part two.

Exploring the Drawing Together project (pt1)

E75 - Exploring the Drawing Together project (pt1)

In this second episode about the Drawing Together project, Alison Phipps interviews Ravi Kohli, Kate MacKinnon, Sharon McGregor and Christine Uwase about their experiences working on the project. Please refer to part 1 for the full background of the project. For the show notes, including biographies of the speakers and links to the project, please visit: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.

Rough timings of this episode's content:

0 to 1m50s: Alison briefly introduces the Drawing Together project and team.

1m50s to 3m40s: Christine talks about her role as project Ambassador and what the project meant to her with Alison’s reflections and questions.

3m40s to 9m30s: Christine and Alison reflect on their involvement in the project and the value person methodology.

9m30s to 16m15s: Ravi reflects on the challenges of running an international project e.g., overcoming language and cultural barriers and the covid-19 pandemic, with Alison’s reflections.

16m25s to 20m25s: Kate reflects on her policy role in the project and the policy context of the project in Scotland.

20m25s to 24m35s:  Sharon reflects on some of the project findings in relation to young refugees growing new roots in a new country and the importance of language, cultural, stability, security, with Alison’s reflections.

24m35s to 24m40s: Alison reflects on the project findings in relation to the New Scots Integration Strategy delivery plan.

24m40 to 29m50s: Christine reflects on the challenges young refugees overcome when they are setting up a new life in a new country, with Alison’s reflections.

29m50s to 33m33s: Kate reflects on the policy findings and the importance of relationships, nature, faith, navigation, technology, with Alison’s reflections.

33m33s to 37m20s: Sharon reflects on the research findings in relation to the important features of professional relationships from young refugees in the project, with Alison’s reflections in relation to the New Scots Integration Strategy.

37m20s to 43m25s: Kate reflects on the importance of nature, faith and access to digital technology and travel as noted in the project’s policy brief, and the importance of children’s rights, with Alison’s reflections.

43m25s to 49m39s: Ravi reflects on the personal, cultural and research consequences of the Drawing Together project, with Alison’s reflections in relation to the New Scots Integration Strategy.

49m39s: Closing remarks and Alison’s thanks.

E76 - Exploring the Drawing Together project (pt2)

This week we have an episode in a different language for you. Listen to TafBob Mutumbi, telling us a story in Shona, one of the languages spoken in Zimbabwe by around 9 million people.

Tafadzwa Bob Mutumbi is an actor, Director and Theatre maker from Harare, Zimbabwe.

TafBob strives to create, perform and direct provocative ritual theatre pieces that are innovative and functional. He is committed to using his craft and artistic voice to tell marginalised African narratives with the express intention of bringing about social and political transformation. A graduate of the Theory X Theatre Initiative's 3 year acting programme, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2011. And the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre's MFA programme, Blue Lake, CA, USA, 2017.

He has performed in plays such as "The Convert" by Danai Gurira, "The Gospel of Othello" by Patrice Naiambana. "Broken" co created and performed with Everyone Ndlovu.

He is the inaugural recipient of the Walter Mparutsa artist of excellence fellowship.

His directing credits include the plays ""Ruvajena" By Virginia Jekanyika, My Father is a Goat", (devised.) The music theatre adaptation of The Merchant of Venice" (co-director with Juwon Ongungbe) "Mirror Magnet", (Devised ) "Chirorodziva", written by TafBob "Breathing Graves" (Devised) and "There is a Field" by Jen Marlowe.

He has directed staged readings including "Familiar" by Danai Gurira and "Hashtag Blackgods Matter" By Sfundo Sosibo.

As of 2021, he is working on a duet project exploring the world for ritual theatre for healing of racial and political trauma
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Moyo

Ngano yaPeredhunje by TafBob Mutumbi

E77 - Ngano yaPeredhunje by TafBob Mutumbi

A wee bonus message for you all. Full show notes, including the names of the speakers and the languages: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Bonus - Christmas message 2024

In this episode, Elder in Residence Mike Gonzalez interviews Mohammad Alkhatib and Daniel Calvert about teaching languages, inclusion, second language acquisition, ESOL, linguistic landscapes and translanguaging pedagogy. Please visit our website for the shownotes, including their biographies: https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

The Sound of Integrations

E79: ESOL, linguistic landscapes and translanguaging pedagogy with Daniel and Mohammad

E79 - ESOL, linguistic landscapes and translanguaging pedagogy with Daniel and Mohammad

In this episode, Dr Tawona Sitholé speaks with academic and author Jo Beall (FAcSS) about her debut novel, Meadowlands Dawn, set in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. Their conversation explores Jo’s personal connection to the story, how she switched from academic to creative writing, and the important distinction between love and infatuation.

For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

The sounds of good books

Jo Beall on her debut novel Meadowlands Dawn

E78 - Jo Beall on her debut novel Meadowlands Dawn

In this little bonus clip, you'll hear from a number of participants about their experiences at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating. The music is by Soloway Choir, a choir made up of Ukrainian women, currently living in Glasgow.

Bonus - Spring School impressions

Welcome to the podcast series of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA) at the University of Glasgow. 

We bring you sounds to make you think about integration, languages, culture, society and identity. A collection of academic musings, poetry, lesser heard voices and personal stories for you to enjoy and expand you horizons with. In short: a podcast for everyone with stories from the world, about the world, released fortnightly.

We work in collaboration with Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) and its partners. Together, our aim is to promote creative, practical multilingual action for change at all levels of society to build capacity in research and action focused on fostering cultural expressions of heritage and diversity with displaced peoples, and academic freedom for those at risk.

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