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Drs. Tatiana Bruni has presented three papers at two different international conference in the past few weeks. In this short article we give an overview of her recent work.

On September 9^th she has presented a paper about her PhD research at Durham ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UK) at the in Lisbon, Portugal. The topic of the conference was “Diversity and epistemological plurality: Thinking interculturality ‘otherwise’. The title of her paper is “ Developing capabilities for engaged citizenship. Partnering with students as curricular consultants to create a laboratory of democratic practices”.

On October 1^st she presented two papers at the online . The topic of the conference was “Intercultural Education on the Move: Facing Old and New Challenges”.

The first paper, co-authored, reports on a small virtual exchange with a primary school and an university in Japan she participated in with some ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� College Utrecht students, around the theme of ‘peace’. The title of the paper is: “Peace project and intercultural exchange among Japanese primary school and universities in Japan and the Netherlands”, together with Rie Adachi of Sugiyama Jogakuen ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (Japan) and Yuki Kitano of Moriguchi City Nishiki elementary school (Japan).

The second paper, which she presented alone, is a report of a community engaged learning project she did in 2020-2021 in her course Intercultural Communication, in collaboration with students with a refugee background through the Incluusion project.

They worked at addressing and finding solutions to the challenges that international students face when entering academia in a country different from where they grew up and/or had their secondary education. The title of the paper is: “Refugee students as active contributors in an Intercultural Communication course at a Dutch undergraduate Liberal Arts & Science college”.

For more information please contact Drs. Tatiana Bruni.