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From Classrooms to Communities: raising a generation of thoughtful and responsible citizens
How can we raise a generation of citizens who are aware and responsible?
How can we support young people’s wellbeing by giving them the skills to face today’s challenges?
In this webinar, we’ll open a space for dialogue on the transversal skills that help young people navigate a complex world. With a multidisciplinary approach, our speakers will connect language, storytelling, and innovative practices to reimagine education and community life.
The conversation will focus on three key dimensions:
- Grieving in Connection – building empathy and recognizing the value of shared emotions.
- Radical Reimagination – co-creating new and inclusive possibilities.
- Regenerative Planning – turning visions and ideas into concrete and sustainable actions.
The session will be hosted by Ilaria Boffa, EQ Social Impact Manager at Six Seconds Europe, together with panelists Stefania Tufi, Jessica Hampton, and Helen Moore.
📅 November 4th, 5pm UK
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Stefania Tufi is Professor of Italian Studies and Sociolinguistics at the University of Liverpool (UK). Her research is situated at the intersection of language and spatial constructions of identity from multiple perspectives, such as minoritised languages, language and memorialisation, transnational spaces, and border and peripheral areas. Recent research projects include Multilingual Heritage, framing heritage as a discursive and performative endeavour in postcolonial Africa, carried out in collaboration with local colleagues. Her current project is on Borderscapes, focusing on the border as engendered by language practices and other semiotic processes, and providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the de/construction of borders as an everyday practice. A section of this project is a collaboration with secondary schools in the Liverpool area, where students develop research skills while documenting and questioning boundaries identified in their daily lives, with a view to fostering intercultural awareness and societal cohesion.
Jessica Hampton is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on minoritised knowledge systems and endangered languages at the intersection of place, identity, and belonging from an environmental perspective. She is working on a monograph, Ecolinguistics and Endangered Languages: Emplacing Ecological Wisdom through Language Revitalisation, as part of the Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics series. As a Research Associate on the Borderscapes project, Jessica collaborated with secondary schools in the Liverpool area exploring students’ ecocultural identities and sense of belonging in school.
Dr Helen Moore is a pioneering British ecopoet, socially engaged artist, writer, translator and academic based in Bristol. She has published three ecopoetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications, 2015), acclaimed by the Australian poet John Kinsella as ‘a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics’, and The Mother Country (Awen Publications, 2019). INTATTO. INTACT: Ecopoesia. Ecopoetry, a bilingual Italian-English work, co-authored with Massimo D'Arcangelo (Italy) and Anne Elvey (Australia), was published by La Vita Felice in 2017. Helen has recently collaborated on a translation of Teodora Mastrototaro's Il piano finale/The ultimate stor(e)y, which will be published by Industria & Letteratura as a bilingual and illustrated book of ecopoetry in 2025. Helen curates ECOPOETIKON, an online showcase of global ecopoetries, and teaches part-time at two British universities. In 2021, Helen collaborated with Cape Farewell on ‘RiverRun’, a cross arts-science project examining pollution in Poole Bay, which culminated with gallery-based exhibitions between 2021-23. river / run, an ecopoetic trilogy, was published by Cape Farewell Books in 2024. www.helenmoorepoet.com
Format:Virtual
Start Date:Nov 4, 2025
Time:05:00 PM, Europe/London
Facilitator:Ilaria Boffa
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