The NUI Maynooth Writing Centre, in collaboration with NUI Maynooth Library and the Edward M Kennedy Institute are hosting a symposium on the topic
Writing for
Intercultural Empathy and Understanding
On Friday 14th February
From
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Venue
Phoenix
Meeting Room, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
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on #WIEU2014
Programme
The symposium
has three key purposes:
- to provide those who
participate in the event with the opportunity to discuss how writing can
contribute to greater intercultural understanding and empathy;
- to explore practical
instances where this has happened;
- to consider how best to
scaffold further opportunities for this to occur
Programme
9.30 - 10.00
Registration
10.00 - 10.10
Opening and welcome
10.10
-11.00 Why the event
and initial discussion around what the symposium topic might mean to those
present - Dr Alison Farrell, The Writing Centre, NUI Maynooth
11.00
-11.20 Coffee/Tea
11.20 –
12.00 Case studies on the
symposium topic – Ms Helen Fallon, The Library, NUI Maynooth; Ms Sandy Kane,
University of Johannesburg
12.00 -
12.30 Where to next?
Building on discussion and planning
12.45
-1.00
Launch of Journal of Mediation & Applied Conflict Analysis –
Professor Aidan Mulkeen; Mr Peter Cassells
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