AUR’s International Relations Professor James Walston and International Relations students to be featured on Italian Broadcaster RAI’s radio Radio 3 Mondo:
- April 25th from 11:00 – 12:00
- May 5 from 11:30 – 12:00
AUR’s International Relations Professor James Walston and several International Relations students will be featured on Italian Broadcaster RAI’s radio, in an international current affairs program called Radio 3 Mondo.
Our students were accompanied and interviewed by Italian journalist Annamaria Giordano during their AUR fieldtrips to Ghana and Northern Ireland earlier this year. During their annual Ghana trip, from January 7 to 21, they spent time in the large city of Accra and in the beautiful fishing village of Kokrobite. Students attended lectures with Professor Walston as well as guest speakers, spent a night in the Kakum National Park, visited an e-waste dump and took part in a community service project – building a shed near a soccer field to protect young fans from the sun.
The students were in Northern Ireland from February 24 to 27, as part of the International Relations Conflict Resolution fieldtrip program. They visited Belfast and Derry, spoke with members of Parliament, representatives from each party and from security. Students were interested to see intricate street murals but surprised to see that ‘peace walls’ are still being constructed to keep communities separated. They visited the Saint Cecilia performing arts school, which works to build a new collective memory, free of Catholic or Protestant subtext.
The Radio 3 Mondo program on April 25 will discuss Ghana, and the one on May 5 will be on Northern Ireland.
Save this link for Radio 3 Mondo or come back to our website for a link after the shows air.
For further information please contact: Prof. James Walston, E-mail: j.walston@aur.edu, Tel: 06 5833 0919, ext 306
Update: April 26th, 2011
Anna Maria Giordano’s documentary featuring the Jan 2011 field trip to Ghana with students David Hale and Hayley Benjamin and Prof. James Walston:
Listen to the Audiodocumentary on AUR in Ghana
E’ stato il primo paese ad aver conquistato l’indipendenza nel 1957 e il suo primo presidente, Nkroumah, è stato uno dei padri della decolonizzazione in Africa. Dalle sue coste sono partiti i primi schiavi verso le Indie Occidentali e oggi è una delle democrazie più avanzate con una delle economie più promettenti del continente. Radio3Mondo propone un viaggio fuori dalle rotte consuete, alla scoperta di un paese modello di stabilità, punto di riferimento nella regione subsahariana e partner sempre più ricercato dalle imprese italiane. Dalla visita dei forti in cui venivano rinchiusi gli schiavi al percorso notturno nel Parco nazionale di Kakum, dalla testimonianze di un imprenditore italiano a quella di una imprenditrice afroamericana, passando per una cerimonia funebre e per una scuola per sordomuti… Un audio documentario di Anna Maria Giordano realizzato in collaborazione con l’American University of Rome.
