Following straight on from the Paulo Freire Birth Centenary Fest, the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education at the University of Malta invites you all to the Raymond Williams Birth Centenary Fest.

UNESCO CHAIR IN GLOBAL ADULT EDUCATION

RAYMOND WILLIAMS’ BIRTH CENTENARY - 10th December 2021

Link: https://universityofmalta.zoom.us/j/99224633972   

Co-convenors: Peter Mayo & Joseph Vancell  Times in CET

17.00  Welcome by Faculty of Education Deputy Dean, Michelle Attard Tonna

17.10  Welcome by Convenor  Peter Mayo

17.20  Opening remarks: Being the social change: Raymond Williams, adult education and participatory democracy'   Sharon Clancy, Chair Raymond Williams Foundation and University of Nottingham

17. 40 Recorded Presentation  ‘Why I think Raymond Williams is relevant today’   Emilio Lucio Villegas, University of Seville

18.20  In Border Country. Raymond Willams and the structures of democratic feeling. Linden West, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Break

19.00 Raymond Williams and Education: history, culture and democracy.    Ian Menter, University of Oxford

19.20  Raymond Williams’ theory of Culture. A critical approach.  Eugenio Enrique Cortes Ramirez, University of Castilla La Mancha, Cuenca.

19.40 Raymond Williams, Paulo Freire and the curious articulation of Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy.  Handel Kashope Wright, University of British Columbia(UBC)

20.00 Closure of Raymond Williams Birth Centenary Fest

We are beginning, I am afraid, to see encyclopedia articles dating the birth of Cultural Studies from this or that book in the late fifties. Don’t believe a word of it. That shift of perspective about the teaching of arts and literature and their relation to history and to contemporary society began in Adult Education, it didn’t happen anywhere else. It was when it was taken across by people with that experience to the Universities that it was suddenly recognised as a subject. It is in these and other similar ways that the contribution of the process itself to social change …, and specifically to learning, has happened.

(Williams, in McIlroy, J and Westwood, S (eds.)  Border Country. Raymond Williams in Adult education, NIACE, 1993 , p. 260)