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Margaret Higonnet on how the humanities broaden and deepen understanding of environmental issues

Margaret R. Higonnet, President of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM), addresses the contributions that the Humanities, and in particular the fields of language and literature education, can make by broadening and deepening understanding of environmental issues during the visioning discussions taking place at the BRIDGES establishment workshop, UNESCO headquarters, Paris, 11-12 June 2019.

Credit: Originally published by Bifrost. Materials were recorded by Lea Rekow in Paris 2019, and are published by courtesy of the BRIDGES coalition partners and licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0

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