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KCT on Intercultural Awareness Meeting
2025-01-29 - 2025-01-30
KCT on Intercultural Awareness will develop an extended version of the Intercultural Preparation module during its meeting on January 29 & 30. This enhanced module will feature in-depth content presented through videos, with each chapter exploring various aspects in greater detail.
The meeting will take place in the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona. Address: Aribau Street, 2, 5th floor.
You can find the short module on Intercultural Communication Course here.

MEETING PROGRAMME
JANUARY 29, 2025
09:00 – 09:15 Walk-in
09:15 – 09:30 Welcome session (Harriet, Ines, Alex)
09:30 – 10:00 Speedating (Ines + Alex)
10:00 – 13:00 Preparation Phase Sprints (including Coffee Break 10:45 – 11:00)
(3 sprints in your teams)

Break into smaller groups to develop detailed content of the lecture within the module; online:

Learning outcomes/objectives
Learning activities
Assessment (this might be unnecessary)

13:00 – 14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 World Café (including Coffee Break 15:15 – 15:30) (Ines & Alex/Harriet)

Groups pitch their modules
Co-construction and feedback from visitors

17:00 – 17:30 Wrap up of the day

The ideas we want to tackle on day 2

19:00 Dinner
JANUARY 30, 2025
09:00 – 09:15 Walk-in
09:15 – 12:30 Lecture Building (including coffee break 10:30 – 10:45) (Ines & Alex/Harriet)

Role assignment:

Reporter
Voice & Image
Putting the lecture together

Lectures Building

12:30 – 13:30 Wrap-Up & Further Action

Action Plan (concrete actions to be taken and commitment deadlines/teams)
Further collaboration initiatives ideas brainstorming

13:30 – 14:30 Networking Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Wrap-Up & Further Action
16:00 The End

Alumni & Assesment day
2025-01-29 10:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Paris) | Edifici Històric, Universitat de Barcelona, Pl. de la Universitat, L'Eixample, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08007, Spain
Wednesday january 29, 2025
10:00 – 10:15 Arrival and registration
10:15 – 11:00 Alumni activity
11:00 – 12:30 Evaluation of the Capstone: break-out focus group
12:30 – 13:30 Filling out online Phase Review survey
13:30 Closing

Contextualizing Islam and its complex history
2025-01-29 17:00 - 18:30
This lecture aims to provide an informed view of Islam underlining how any attempt to understand such religious tradition needs to account for the complex historical context and development of Islam, distinguishing between the premodern and the modern periods. Such a nuanced approach shall serve to debunk rampant misconceptions about Islam, often reducing its geography, society, and political history into one monolith static perception that cannot withstand any serious scrutiny. Building up on Shahab Ahmed’s perspective in What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, I shall showcase how the broader geography, the heterogeneous identities, and the complex political system of Islam throughout history tell a different story.
Anyone interested in participating online can email johanna.lawall@uni-wuerzburg.de to receive the Zoom link.
More information on the event here.
