Whereabouts 2015 -
Professor Dr.
Birgit Brock-Utne
March: 6 – 7
staying with Sophia Tesfamariam from Eritrea in Washington
DC and attending festivities for Eritrean women in the
diaspora. 8 -14: Attending the
CIES conference in Washington DC (staying at Hilton-the
conference hotel) as a guest speaker to a SIGs co-sponsored
panel with the title: "Linguistic (Neo)colonization, Global
Education Agenda, and Local Development Initiatives” and an
invited speaker on the Presidential Invited Panel in the
Closing Town Hall titled: ”Re-centring Education as a Moral
Enterprise”
21-22 March:
Participate in the annual meeting of the Association of
Non-Fictional writers at Scandic hotel, Oslo airport
April: Working in
Hamburg. Address in Hamburg: Gästehaus der Universität
Hamburg. Rothenbaumchaussee 34. D-20 148 Hamburg. Giving
the lecture: “Education in Africa of good quality but in
whose language? on Thursday 23rd of April at AfricaVenir in
Berlin. May take a trip back home 24 to 26th of April to
visit Gunnar and attend a birthday of a friend who will be
70.
1.May to 1.November: address in Norway:
Dalbovn.64. N-1458 Fjellstrand
13 – 17 May – in Tromsø for a confirmation
visiting family and friends
18 – 19 May – heading a viva at the Faculty
of Education, UiO
28-30 May – external examiner of a doctoral
thesis at the University of Bristol, UK. Staying at hotel
Crossley
5 - 6 June: "Jentene på
Kyststien". Visiting friends in Stavern and Helgeroa
15-16 June: North-South conference in
Bergen?
17-18 June: External examiner at the
University of Tromsø
18 June – 1 August: Being with family and
friends at Dalbo
2 – 15 August: In South Africa, first
lecturing at the University of Western Cape in Cape Town,
then being a key-note lecturer at a symposium at the
University of Witwaterstand in Joburg and finally lecturing
at Limpopo University
14 – 18 September: Attending the Oxford
conference: Learning for sustainable futures
22 – 28 September: keynote speaker at the conference:
“Rethinking Educational Research in African Contexts” at Moi
University, Eldoret, Kenya
29.Sept – 4, October: Participating in a colloquium at the
University of Johannesburg
17 – 21 Oct: Visiting friends in Hamburg
16 - 21 November: Plenary speaker at a British Council
conference on multilingualism to be held in New Delhi, India
23 – 27 September:
keynote speaker at the conference: “Rethinking Educational
Research in African Contexts” at Moi University, Eldoret,
Kenya
29.Sept – 4, October: Participating in a colloquium at the
University of Johannesburg as an author of a forthcoming
book on Knowledge and Change
13 – 17.Oct: Visit by US friends Profs.Jill Bystydzienski
and Hal Pepinsky
17 – 21 Oct: Visiting friends in Hamburg
1. November 2015 to 1.April 2016: address in Norway:
Vestoppfaret 14. N-1450 Nesoddtangen
16 - 21 November: Plenary speaker at a British Council
conference on multilingualism to be held in New Delhi, India |