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Tingatinga, Tanzania.
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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

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