This webinar explores how culture and arts education can foster empathy, ethical awareness, dialogue, and more peaceful futures in times of global uncertainty, violence, and displacement. Through personal reflections and panel discussion, participants will consider how art teaching and learning can address human and non-human suffering, cultivate critical awareness of world events, and support more inclusive, caring, and socially engaged communities.
Panelists: Dr. John Johnston, UNESCO Chairholder, Dr. Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Olga Ivashkevich, University of South Carolina, Dr. Oscar Keyes, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Annika Hellman, Malmö University
Moderator: Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin, University of Georgia
Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/OLlDRGDMQbmSKQ_gLgnJ1w#/registration