Event
Webinar: Dialogue on the Futures of Education in the Framework of the 30th Anniversary of UNESCO’s “Slave Routes” Programme
The objective of this webinar is to highlight and bring visibility to the contributions of Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean thought in the educational sphere, in the context of the conclusion of the International Decade for People of African Descent and the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Additionally, it aims to enrich the UNESCO initiative "Futures of Education: Reimagining how Knowledge and Learning Can Shape the Future of Humanity and the Planet" from the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The virtual seminar is targeted at researchers, teachers, community educators, social activists, classroom educators, and education professionals.
This virtual event is organised within the framework of the “International Conference on New Narratives: Memory, Resistance and Reclamation,” to be held from 21-23 August 2024 in Cuba. The conference is organised by the UNESCO Regional Office in Havana, the Fernando Ortiz Foundation, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba. The conference aims to deepen the dialogue that began forcibly between Africa and the Americas five hundred years ago with the transatlantic slave trade, whose consequences persist to this day. The event celebrates the leading role of UNESCO’s programme in the production of innovative knowledge, the development of high-level scientific networks, and the support of memory initiatives on the subject of slavery, its abolition, and the resistance it generated.
