The next ICD Exercise is now available. Stellina Ogedengbe, Ifeoma Onyebuchi, and Favour Ilolo have written about exploring cultural symbols in intercultural dialogue.
The objective of this exercise is to help participants share a meaningful cultural artifact or symbol and discuss its significance. The activity involves practice interpreting the meanings of artifacts, reflecting on their meanings, and learning about other cultures to develop intercultural understanding. Most importantly, they will come to realize that the meanings of objects and symbols vary significantly across cultures.
As with prior publications, ICD Exercises are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download the exercise.
Ogedengbe, S., Onyebuchi, I., & Ilolo, F. (2025). Exploring cultural symbols in intercultural dialogue. Intercultural Dialogue Exercises, 6. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/icd-ex-6-ogedengbe.pdf
If you have an exercise you’ve used that works, and you would like to share it, please submit it. All authors will be asked to answer the same set of questions, and to make the exercises available for others to use, thus these are being published with a Creative Commons license (as is the case for all CID publications). If you are new to CID, please provide a brief resume. This opportunity is open to masters students and above, on the assumption that some familiarity with academic conventions generally, and discussion of intercultural dialogue specifically, are useful.
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Director Center for Intercultural Dialogue
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