You are invited to the 2020 International Day for Tolerance Human Library with Refugees📚 “A Refugee Lives Next Door.”
Did you know that 16 November is the International Day for Tolerance designated by the UN? None of you is hearing the word “tolerance” for the first time, but when you are asked what tolerance is, it is not easy to answer. Then what is the opposite of tolerance? Disregard? Discrimination? Hatred? If these words sound familiar to you, we may be living in a society where tolerance is disappearing. Yet among us are people who came to Korea in search of tolerance. They are the four refugee human books you can read at the Human Library on the 14th.
Are you not curious about the stories told by four refugees from Yemen🇾🇪, Iran🇮🇷, Bangladesh🇧🇩 and Egypt🇪🇬? At the November Human Library, they share the stories of refugees who came to Korea to escape intolerance, yet who face intolerance again in Korea, and the tolerance they dream of. At this Human Library, two refugees pair up and tell their stories together. Their ages, languages and life journeys are all different, but they have one thing in common: they want to talk with you. If you wonder what stories are waiting for you, check the registration link below!
❝ 📚 [Human Library with Refugees] “A Refugee Lives Next Door”❞
- Date and time: Saturday, 14 November 2020, 14:00-16:00
- Format: Online, using the ZOOM application
- Registration link: bit.ly/11월의사람책도서관
- Zoom participation link (meeting ID): 937 8014 4071
- Moderator: Dr. Kim Cheol-hyo (Social Science Research Institute, Jeonbuk National University)
- Human book / title
Ronel / “Korean and Refugee”
Min-hyeok / “The Refugee Path Walked by a Father and Son”
Hisham / “Forced Escape”
Hamdi / “The Lives of Egyptian Students Destroyed by Security Agency Control”
- Main schedule
📕Session 1 (14:00 ~ 14:50) Why did we come to Korea? Four refugee human books who fled ethnic, religious and political persecution and war tell the stories of their journeys 📗Session 2 (14:50 ~ 15:30) Another gaze encountered in Korean society: the new everyday life that unfolded for them after arriving in Korea 📘Session 3 (15:30 ~ 16:00) Moving beyond intolerance toward tolerance: the picture of tolerance drawn together by readers and refugee human books
