UNESCO Chair Oration 2025: Daniela Gavshon
Join us for the 2025 UNESCO Chair Oration, with Daniela Gavshon, the Australia director at Human Rights Watch
2024 UNESCO Chair Oration: Mr Giridharan Sivaraman
The 2024 UNESCO Chair Oration was delivered by Mr Giridharan Sivaraman, Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, on ‘The Racism of Benign Assimilation’.
2019 UNESCO Chair Oration: Professor Marcia Langton AM
Professor Marcia Langton AM delivered the 2019 UNESCO Chair Oration on ‘Empowering Indigenous Australians’.
2018 UNESCO Chair Oration: Professor Raimond Gaita
Professor Raimond Gaita was the 2018 UNESCO Chair Orator who spoke to his topic on ‘Different Ways of Saying ‘We” at Deakin University’s Deakin Downtown on 28 November 2018. He was welcomed by the UNESCO Chair of Comparative Research in...
2018 Alfred Deakin Institute Oration
Professor Fethi Mansouri, Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and UNESCO Chair for Comparative Research in Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, opened and welcomed Australia’s Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister...
The 2017 UNESCO Oration Video
Now in its fifth year, the annual UNESCO Chairs Oration was delivered to a full house at Deakin downtown. This years speaker was the Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane. He spoke on the theme of middle class racism. “those...