Organizer

UNESCO Chair in Regional Education Development and Lifelong Learning; CRSE, EdUHK

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Gordon Mitchell, incumbent Professor for Religion and Intercultural Education, University of Hamburg

Speaker Introduction

Prof. Gordon Mitchell is an expert in religious education and an influential researcher in the field of religion in public education and creative arts in peace education, as well as cross-cultural and interreligious dialogue. Earning his PhD in the distinguished Heidelberg University, Prof. Mitchell is also an extremely productive and experienced project organizer. To explore the possibilities of peacebuilding in a multicultural metropolitan such as Hong Kong, this seminar will chiefly focus on Prof. Mitchell’s experience in the devising of the “Art Peace Project”, a ten-year on-going project that “serves as a forum for the exploration of ways in which the creative arts can contribute to Human Rights and Peace Education”; and the “Spirals of Interreligious Dialogue Project”, a project which emphasizes the notion that there are no finality in the interpretation of religious phenomena. With that in mind, the project seeks to document the interactions between university researchers and religious communities with the hope of exploring new avenues in the teaching of interreligious awareness.