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Workshop Speakers and Panelists

 

Keynote Speakers

  • Gerhard Budin, UNESCO Chair for "Multilingual, Transcultural Communication in the Digital Age", University of Vienna
  • Yvonne Gimpel (Austrian Focal Point „UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions") about the UNESCO´s perspective on Cultural Diversity

Diversity and Diversity Management

  • Gabriele Sauberer (TermNet): "Diversity, social responsibility and diversity management in the context of peace"
  • Esra Killaf (MA 17): „Integration and Diversity in Health and Social Issues"
  • René Hudribusch (Ministry of Defense and Sport): „The effects of masculine & power
    cultures on worksplace bullying in the Austrian Armed Forces (+ UN Res. 1325)"
  • Lakshmi Kumar (The Orchid School): „Connecting worlds: raising intercultural insights for global-centric leaderships"

Go4Diversity: Global Education, Migration and Science

  • Aliyou Mana Hamadou (Go4Diversity):  "The Go4Diversity Project"
  • Norbert Pauser: "Diversity and Inclusion in Education"
  • Neda Forghani-Arani: "Global Citizenship Education: contents, aims and methods"

The Role of Terminology in UN Communication and Policy

  • Anja Drame (TermNet): Introduction - terminology policies and communication
  • Klaus Mak (LVAG, Austria): „ProTerm" and process-oriented knowledge management
  • Valens Bimenyimana (PIH, Senior Translator/Interpreter) „Rwanda's terminology and language policy needs"
  • Mekki El Badri (UNOV, translator for Arabic) „Translators and terminologists at the UN Vienna"
  • Julia Harfensteller: "Role and Potential of Concepts in UN Peace Policy"

 Global Education and Intercultural Communication

  • Reinhard Mitschke / Alexander Wick (Heidelberg University): Workshop about the COMSIC project (Collaboration Competencies for Media Supported Intercultural Groups)
  • Kent Kille (College of Wooster): "Interactive Global Education: Active Learning and the Center of Diversity and Global Engagement."
  • Jamie Arbuckle (former Canadian UN Peacekeeper): „Intercultural communication among agencies: intra-agency relationships, agencies as cultures"

Fostering global understanding through new ICT tools and ways of communication

  • Henrike Paepcke (UNSA, Coconets): About wikis, social networks, blogs, Twitter, including Practical Training how to work with new ICT using the Go4Diversity website

 

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