ATLANTIC FELLOWS | DURKHANAI AYUBI & DANA WALRATH

In this conversation, DURKHANAI AYUBI, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, and DANA WALRATH, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, discuss the power of narrative and storytelling in their work. Dana is a writer, artist and anthropologist whose family came to the US as refugees from Armenia. She has written books about the Armenian Genocide and her mother’s dementia. Durkhanai is a restaurateur and writer whose family fled from Afghanistan to Australia when she was a baby. She recently published a cookbook called Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen.

Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 04 | USE OF AR & VR IN HEALTHCARE

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the use of AR and VR in healthcare.

Featuring DEEPA MANN-KLER, Chief Executive, Neon, and JEREMY LIM, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 05 | INDIGENOUS APPROACHES

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss indigenous approaches to the use of AR and VR.

Featuring MIKAELA JADE, CEO, Indigital, and SHANE WEBSTER, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 01 | INTRODUCTION

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE.

Alice talks about how the series, BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL, was born out of the Atlantic community's exploration of the use of augmented and virtual realities and the ethical issues that raises. As Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead, Alice is concerned with how emerging technologies can strengthen the Atlantic community's collective work of addressing root causes of systemic inequities as well as how the Atlantic community can work together, while physically apart, to become a force for social good.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 03 | CREATIVE & ACTIVIST POTENTIAL OF VIRTUAL SPACE

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the creative and activist potential of virtual space.

Featuring SHARI FRILOT, Chief Curator, New Frontier, Sundance, and CEDRIC BROWN, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 02 | NARRATIVE CHANGE

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the use of augmented and virtual realities to effect narrative change.

Featuring American journalist and film maker NONNY DE LA PENA, Founder and CEO of Emblematic Group, and DYLAN VALLEY, South African film maker and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 06 | ETHICAL ISSUES

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with WILNEIDA NEGRON, Strategic Advisor to the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, as they discuss the ethical concerns that ran through the series, BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE and ATLANTIC PROGRAMS are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19.

While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our lifetimes, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19.

In this webinar, the speakers discuss the use of social media in mobilizing for change:

(1) JESSICA HORN, feminist activist, strategist, writer and philanthropic consultant; and

(2) BIBI-AISHA WADVALLA, South African journalist and Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa.

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with two of today's leading futurists and cutting-edge thinkers, transmedia artist STEPHANIE DINKINS (Kusama Endowed Professor in Art, Stony Brook University, New York)and political scientist Professor SOHAIL INAYATULLAHI (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei) as they discuss the meaning of community and how a globally disparate community might flourish in the future. With closing remarks from EVIE O'BRIEN, Executive Director, Atlantic Institute.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in their quest for fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Atlantic Fellows | https://www.atlanticfellows.org/

SESSION 1 - 30.09.20 | EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN DECOLONIALITY & AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEMS - A CONVERSATION IN 'POST-COLONIAL' AFRICA

Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health

Policy and Systems Research (HPSR).

This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND.

CONVENORS

SHEHNAZ MUNSHI (University of the Witwatersrand), LANCE LOUSKETIER (University of Cape Town) & KENTSE RADEBE (University of Cape Town), ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY.

CONVENING FACILITATORS

(1) TANYA CHARLES, ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EQUITY, Program and Impact Lead, ATLANTIC INSTITUTE.

(2) PHILIPPA NAMUTEBI KABALI-KAGWA, poet & storyteller.

SESSION 1 | SPEAKERS

(1) PROF LAETITIA RISPEL (Facilitator), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.

(2) DR FAISAL GARBA, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Co-convenor, Global Studies Program, University of Cape Town.

(3) PROF ELELWANI RAMUGONDO, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town.

(4) HANNAH MUTHONI RYDER, CEO, Development Reimagined.

(5) JEAN-PAUL DOSSOU, Director, Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD).

(6) SHEHNAZ MUNSHI, Research Project Manager/Lecturer, Sheiham Family/Wits Programme on Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand; ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR HEALTH EQUITY.

READINGS & MUSIC | Love in a Time of Ebola, Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa | Invocation, Lebogang Mashile.