ISME and WAAE presents
​Join ISME’s International Webinar:
Music in Peacebuilding:
​Scholars' Actions from the Min-On Research Institute (Tokyo)

Wednesday, May 27｜1PM UTC

In this panel, research affiliates with the Min-On Music Research Institute based in Tokyo will share summaries and stories of their respective work with music and peacebuilding.

​Panelists: 
Dr. Mary Cohen, Professor of Music Education, University of Iowa, USA
Dr. Kevin Shorner-Johnson, Dean and Director of Music Education, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA
Elaine Sandoval, Research Fellow, MOMRI, USA
Olivier Urbain, Director of MOMRI, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Gideon Danja, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria​

Registration:  
​https://us06web.zoom.us/.../register/_J_fvDy7Sj-iSydP8L7-2Q

InSEA and WAAE presents
Join UNESCO Culture and Arts Education Week’s Webinar:
Arts Education in Action for Peace

Saturday, May 30｜12PM UTC 

This webinar explores how culture and arts education can foster empathy, ethical awareness, dialogue, and more peaceful futures in times of global uncertainty, violence, and displacement. Through personal reflections and panel discussion, participants will consider how art teaching and learning can address human and non-human suffering, cultivate critical awareness of world events, and support more inclusive, caring, and socially engaged communities.
​
Panelists:
Dr. John Johnston, UNESCO Chairholde
Dr. Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Olga Ivashkevich, University of South Carolina
Dr. Oscar Keyes, Virginia Commonwealth University
​Dr. Annika Hellman, Malmö University
Moderator: Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin, University of Georgia