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10 juin 2020. Alphonsina Emmanuelle, étudiante ghanéenne en échange international et actuellement en stage à Cannes, interroge le Dr George Simons sur l'état actuel et les défis de la diversité culturelle dans un contexte de contestation raciale. Comment le monde virtuel, remodelé par la pandémie du virus corona, va-t-il affecter le développement des compétences culturelles ? Vous pouvez écouter l'interview (en français) ici.   10 June 2020. Alphonsina Emmanuelle, international exchange student from Ghana currently doing her studies in Cannes, Interviews Dr. George Simons on the current state and challenges of addressing cultural diversity issues in an environment of racial protest....

We share with you an article posted on JAMK official website, 25 Nov 2019     New Horizons – creating intercultural dialogue with a game of cards developed in JAMK   JAMK University of Applied Sciences has for many years been working on promoting cultural awareness and intercultural dialogue. One way of generating intercultural interaction is a card game called New Horizons, published originally in 2016. The game is already in use in 48 countries around the world. This fall, a new edition of the game has been published especially for young people. Young New Horizons facilitates interaction and dialogue...

Today we share with you a post on  Chris Smit's  Culture Matters   site which articulates six solid reasons that show why what we seek to achieve in our games and many other intercultural interventions require real people rubbing elbows with each other. It is a short but powerful read. Everything tends to move online. We buy our books online, we do our groceries online, we book our tickets ourselves and even certain forms of training have taken on the shape of e-learning. Effective for some topics; in my eyes less effective for other topics. Of course I think that becoming...

Paul Schafer's musical reflection, which I shared with you yesterday, reminded me that some thirty-five years ago, with the advent of the writeable CD, I created as a holiday gift, LesChansons de ma vie, a collection of the songs which I felt had either shaped my life or accompanied me well throughout its vicissitudes. It was a new way of sending myself to my friends and inviting them to be with me, body and soul, ears and heart, however great the geography separating us. The obvious starting point is one of my all-time favorite balladeers, George Moustaki, heard here inviting friends, les amis,...