Program

Welcome to this very first FECUN conference Bhutan2023, ‘Reimagining interdependence.’ The conference will be held online, April 14-15, 2023.

As this is a global online conference, you should pay attention to how the scheduled time for the presentations will differ across time zones. All conference sessions and presentations are CEST; that is Central European Summer Time. We strongly advise that you check out the possible time difference from the time zone from where you are situated; for example here.

You can read more about the development of the conference theme here, and about FECUN here. Below you will find more information on the program and activities at the conference.

Presenters, Exhibitions, and UNESCO World Arts day.
The conference will be held via ‘Zoom Events,’ which allows us to combine the live presentation track with a couple of small online exhibitions and events that relate to the conference theme in various ways. The presenters and exhibitors will be educational thinkers and researchers, academics, and teachers from Universities and Vocational and Polytechnic Higher Education Institutions, as well as practitioners and representatives of Civil Society Organizations. Besides, there will on the second day, April 15, be a special theme: Imagination and Education, to honor UNESCO’s World Art Day.

Some signature presenters, panelists, and a special invited presentation:

• HE Thakur S. Powdyel, Reflections on the idea of the Green Schools program. (Keynote)
• Tshewang Tashi, Reimagining our futures together – ancient wisdom, modern times.
• HE Thakur S. Powdyel, and Abrahim Khan, panel on Imagination and Education
• Shelley Sacks, Introducing the 7000+ HUMANS global social sculpure inititative
  
• Randy Nikkel Schroeder & Kent Schroeder, Where is the coastline? : Interdependence and scale.
• Stephen Couchman & Galey Tenzin, The Four-Hundred Kilometer Classroom: The Trans Bhutan Trail as a Lesson in Bhutan’s Past, Present, and Future.