1. The REAL (Research for Equitable Access and Learning) Centre here in Cambridge is about to start its autumn seminar series https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real/events/ All the seminars are online (as well as f2f), and here’s the first two:
The role of hope in education: Learning from Syrian refugee youth’s strategies to navigate uncertainty Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 GMT Room GS4 with Dr Hiba Salem, Research Fellow in Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford
Exploring higher education solutions for Afghan women under the Taliban Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 GMT Room GS4 with Dr Marissa Quie, Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Convenor, Afghanistan Desk, The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge.
2. More from the REAL Centre: Sustained, purposeful investment is key to ‘leaving no girl behind’, either in education or beyond, is the finding of a recent report by a group they led into the UK government’s Leave no Girl Behind initiative, launched in 2016. Here’s a summary https://content.educ.cam.ac.uk/23-leave-no-girl-behind-analysis and PDFs of the full report and of the annexes to the report below.
3. Was this author on a hiding to nothing? Maybe she was – but she survived! An Approach to Teaching Humour by Kirstie Jackson Wilms for the IH Journal https://ihworld.com/ih-journal/issues/issue-51/an-approach-to-teaching-humour/
The rest of Issue 51 is here https://ihworld.com/ih-journal/issues/issue-51/
4. Oxford University Press’s next ELTOC is next Friday and Saturday, 27th and 28th October https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/eltoc/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en
It starts at 10:40 UK time with a formidably bearded Nik Peachey on Multi-Modal Literacy: Why and How. Nik’s thesis is that “it’s becoming impossible to ignore the fact that our digital world has changed the nature of literacy. Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking are no longer enough”.
5. And, finally, William Dalrymple’s talks are always good. Here’s ample notice, I hope, of one he’s giving for the Asia Scotland Institute at 12:00 UK time on Tuesday 31st October, based on his new book, The Golden Road, looking at “forgotten chapters of history, the economic, cultural and political impact of the Red Sea route, and modern geopolitics and global trade”, Unveiling ‘The Golden Road’ – The Ancient Trade Route That Shaped Our World. Register here for free https://asiascot.com/events/unveiling-the-golden-road
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