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Monday, 31 May 2010

4pm - 6pm

Registration

6pm - 8pm

Reception by the go4diversity project

Tuesday, 1 June 2010 

9am -  9.45 am

Keynote speech

Gerhard Budin, UNESCO Chair for "Multilingual, Transcultural Communication in the Digital Age", University of Vienna

10am - 12.30pm

WORKSHOP I:

Diversity and Diversity Management

(Moderator: Gabriele Sauberer)

• Gabriele Sauberer: "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"

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Lunch Break

1.30pm - 3pm

WORKSHOP II:

Go4Diversity: Global Education, Migration and Science

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

3pm - 3.30pm

Coffee Break

3.30pm - 5.45pm

WORKSHOP III:

The Role of Terminology in UN Communication and Policy

(Moderators: Anja Drame, Julia Harfensteller)

• Anja Drame: Introduction - terminology policies and communication
• Klaus Mak (LVAG, Austria): „ProTerm" and process-oriented knowledge management
• Jürgen Kotzian: "Terminology Management at the Austrian Armed Forces Language Institute"
  
• Mekki Elbadri (UNOV, translator for Arabic) „Translators and terminologists at the UN Vienna"
• Julia Harfensteller: "Role and Potential of Concepts in UN Peace Policy"

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

9am - 9.30am

Keynote speech

Yvonne Gimpel (Austrian Focal Point „UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions"):

UNESCO´s perspective on Cultural Diversity

 9.30am - 12.30pm

WORKSHOP IV:

Global Education and Intercultural Communication

Reinhard Mitschke: Workshop - the COMSIC project (Collaboration Competencies for Media Supported Intercultural Groups)

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Lunch Break

1.30pm - 3pm

WORKSHOP IV, continued:

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"

3pm - 3.30pm

Coffee Break

3.30pm - 5.45pm

WORKSHOP VI:

Fostering global understanding through new ICT tools and ways of communication

(Moderators: Henrike Paepcke, Anja Drame)

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