A number of Cypriot researchers and academics from both the major communities on the island presented their work on reconciliation processes through discourse and education.
This video presents the plenary discussion at the end of a day of presentations, with Professor John Charalambous of the LondonMet chairing the session, with Professors Floya Anthias (Roehampton University) and Peter Loizos (London School of Economics) acting as the primary discussants.
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The three sessions preceding the plenary, were as follows:
Part 1: Space, Remembrance and Community Relations Chaired by Vally Lytra
Dilek Latif - Prospects of Reconciliation, Co-Existence and Forgiveness in Cyprus in the Post-Referendum Period
Alev Adil - A New Poetics of Exile and Belonging: the place of memory in the new media environment
Part 2: Discourses and Practices in Education Chaired by Elena Papamichael
Spyros Spyrou - Discourse and Practice in the Everyday Worlds of Children: Ideologies, Contradictions and Change
Michalinos Zembylas - Racialization/Ethniciaziation of School Emotional Spaces: The Politics of Resentment
Part 3: Language Education and Reconciliation Chaired by Tözün Issa
Constadina Charalambous - ‘Others’ and ‘Brothers’: Hellenocentric Paideia and Turkish Language Learning in Greek Cypriot High Schools
Panayiota Charalambous - Classroom constructions of ‘militant ethos’: social representations and ideologies of text in Greek-Cypriot literature education practices