UNESCO Chairs Conference
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UNESCO Chairs programme UNESCO is organizing a conference on “Transforming Knowledge on Just and Sustainable Futures”, at UNESCO Headquarters, on 3-4 November 2022.
15 September 2022
Dear colleagues,
We would like to thank those of you who have pre-registered for the upcoming international conference to mark the 30th anniversary of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, taking place 3-4 November at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
This conference, to be held on the theme of “Transforming Knowledge for Just and Sustainable Societies”, is designed as an in-person event. Kindly consult the conference webpage for updates regarding the programme, the provisional agenda, and practical information about attendance.
If you, or members of your research team, still wish to register to attend in person, please do so by the extended deadline of 7 October at this link.
You are warmly invited to submit an inspiring short video message (60 to 90 seconds) in advance. Guidelines regarding video contributions can be found at the end of this email.
We very much look forward to welcoming you to UNESCO HQ.
Kind regards,
Sobhi Tawil
Director
Future of Learning and Innovation
7, Place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris
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Guidelines for video messages: To celebrate the achievements of the Programme, we are inviting members of the UNITWIN Programme – whether attending in person or not – to submit an inspiring short video message (60 to 90 seconds) in advance. The video from a UNESCO Chair or UNITWIN Network should address the following question: What has been your most important contribution to the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme? • Length: 60-90 seconds (max) • Resolution: 4K or 1080P • Film orientation: Horizontal/Landscape • File Type: MOV or MP4 • Quality: find a quiet, well-lit place to record • Language: English or French • Script: Please provide the full transcript in the language of the intervention • Name and title: Please provide the following: Name(s) of speaker(s) in the order of appearance; Full title of Chair; Institution; Country • Note: Please do not add any text, graphics, music or subtitles to the video • Send the video to unitwin@unesco.org by 7 October 2022 If the video is too large, please use a service such as WeTransfer, Google Drive etc. and send the link to the above email address along with the details requested. |
Video message of 90 seconds by Prof. İoanna Kuçuradi, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human Rights, answering UNESCO’s question: “What has been your most important contribution to the UNESCO Chairs Programme?”
Ioanna Kuçuradi
UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human
Rights, Maltepe University, Istanbul
My relations with UNESCO start much earlier than the establishment of the UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human Rights, first at Hacettepe University (Ankara) in 1997 and subsequently in 2009 at Maltepe University (Istanbul). They start in 1980, when the then Director General of UNESCO, Mr Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, honored the international congress I organized at Hacettepe University, on "Philosophical Foundation of Human Rights".
Across all these years I tried to promote UNESCO's ideals, that are also among my ideals, in Turkey and internationally, by sharing the need for philosophical conceptualization of the ideas related to these ideals; I contributed, in my different capacities as President of the Philosophical Society of Turkey, President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) and as UNESCO Chairholder, to the preparation of the UNESCO Strategy of Philosophy, I proposed the World Day of Philosophy, which was celebrated in the first few years at UNESCO Headquarters in a magnificent way, and I proposed that the International Philosophy Olympiads be put under the auspices of UNESCO, etc.*
* See also: "Interview with Ioanna Kuçuradi, Turkish Philosopher", made by Jeanette Blom and published in SHS Newsletter 04, and "Philosophy as a Means to Overcome Injustice", in 60 Women Contributing to the 60 Years of UNESCO, Constructing the Foundations of Peace, edited by Ingeborg Breines and Hans d'Orville, published by UNESCO, 2006, pp. 129-132.