Leave no one behind - Opportunities to build ALE in Africa
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
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Past events
WEBINAR: ADULT EDUCATION AND HEALTH / EDUCATION DES ADULTES ET SANTE
Join us in this webinar as we discuss the different ways in which adult education is being used in community health.
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)
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