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29 — 29 April 2021, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Meeting


Purposes of the meeting are:

(i) Reconnecting ALE practitioners with one another

(ii) Exploring opportunities to build ALE in Africa through ’We are ALE’ campaign; Swedish partnerships; Moja Website, Connection to Agenda 2030

(iii) Learning from recent study in Uganda by Dr Salome Awidi on literacy and sustainability amongst refugees

Draft Programme

  • Welcome and check in
  • Brief introduction to ‘We are ALE’ campaign – Carole Avande-Houndjo, Vice President, ICAE
  • Short reports from KTO (Tanzania) and FSO (Sweden)
  • Group discussion: how can we work with ‘We are ALE’ campaign
  • Report on launch of Moja Africa, an online platform for adult educators in Africa
  • Brief presentation ‘Literacy and sustainability amongst refugees’ - Dr Salome Awidi
  • Discussion
  • Pulling threads together for ways forward - discussion

RSVP if you want to attend the meeting to lina.remnert@sverigesfolkhogskolor.se

Time: 11:00-12:30 (CAT)

Cost

N/A

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Join us in this webinar as we discuss the different ways in which adult education is being used in community health.

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Speakers:

  • Vanessa Reynolds (The women's circle), South Africa
  • Dr Samira cheikh (ONFP- office national de la famille et de la population), Tunisia

Date: 26 March 2024

Time: 13:00 – 14:30 (SAST)

14:00 - 15:30 (EAT)

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Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience (episode 1)

About the episode

In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. Amitav Ghosh has led the way in writing novels with this theme (The Hungry Tide, Gun Island), besides critiquing the failure of literary fiction to engage with this set of questions.

Has speculative fiction/cli-fi from South Asia begun tooffer a nuanced and grounded representation of both the survival mechanisms espoused in the face of existential threats and possibilities for resistance and organisation at the grassroots level emerging in the region, as Vandana Singh and others have argued? Can climate change fiction indicate the scope for alternative paradigms emerging at present and in times to come?

Date and Time

Date: 17 January 2024

Time: 1 pm GMT/UTC; 6.30 pm IST

Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82646306714?pwd=OWdsVTJsdGEvdVdXMmNGOVgyRGpudz09

Panelists

Vandana Singh – author, Utopias of the Third Kind; physicist & climate change scientist

Anil Menon – author, The Coincidence Plot; Chief Editor, Bombay Literary Magazine

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyaya – Assoc. Prof, Univ of Oslo, and Lead, CoFUTURES

Ashish Kothari – Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam, and Global Tapestry of Alternatives


https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:episode_1

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