Events
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Weapons of the strong: what will western states do in response to climate change? -Annual Remembrance Lecture and AGM
Date: 8/11/09
Details: This year's Remembrance lecture is 'Weapons of the strong: what will western states do in response to climate change?' It will be given by Dr Mark Levene, Reader in Comparative History at Southampton and an expert on the history of modern genocide. He is also Director of the Climate Change and Violence Project, and a co-founder with David Cromwell ( of MediaLens) of Crisis Forum. This is a network of academics, campaigners, government and faith groups looking at change in an holistic way, rather than from segregated disciplines or policy groups. It is a relatively new network and currently running a series of 7 workshops at universities. It recently published 'Surviving Climate Change: the struggle to avert global catastrophe (Pluto Press). The subject of Mark's lecture will be announced in due course. The speaker at our AGM in the morning, will be Roberta Bacic, of Chile, who now lives in Northern Ireland and is curator of 'The Art of Survival' - an International and Irish Quilts and Arpilleras exhibition. Arpilleras are three dimensional applique textiles of Latin America, and Roberta will talk of how these were handcrafted by women in Chile as a way of telling their stories of a struggle for truth and justice during the Pinochet dictatorship from 1973-1990. The arpilleras were often used to camouflage prisoners and to send messages to the international press. The exhibition will open in the museum Cinema from 11am. Those who wish may attend the museum's 10-minute Remembrance ceremony at this time. We will begin the AGM,including a presentation by Roberta, following this. After a break for lunch from 1-2pm, there will be a short introduction to the exhibition, and music by Sue Gilmurray. Our speaker will begin at 2.30pm, his talk to be followed by questions, with a guest reception held at 4.30pm.
Speaker: Dr Mark Levene (Co-founder of Crisis Forum. Director of the Climate Change and Violence Project. Reader in Comparative History at Southampton, expert on history of modern genocide.)
Location: Imperial War Museum, London.