EVENT: Linking climate change with migration Film screening and panel discussion 7/3/16 London

Is the devastation of our climate forcing increased migration and is it projected to worsen in the future?

A new film shows how recent research linking climate change with migration has strengthened our understanding of this enormously, and how artists have begun to articulate this in human terms. In stark contrast virtually no mention was made of migration in the Paris climate summit agreements.  A leading panel explores the underlying issues and asks whether and how migration should be made more visible across public and policy agendas on climate change?

Crossing Footprints - Linking Climate Change with MigrationMon 7th March 2016, at 6.30pm
Room K2.31 Nash Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, King’s Building, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Book your FREE place at: http://linking-climate-change-with-migration.eventbrite.co.uk/

Linking climate change with migration event includes speakers:

Richard Black, leading scholar at SOAS on migration in the context of climate change
Zita Holbourne, community, union and human rights activist, writer, artist and curator; co-founder of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts
Andrew Baldwin, chair of international Climate Change and Migration research network based at Durham University
Alex Randall, UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition
Kooj Chuhan, artist, filmmaker and curator of the ‘Footprint Modulation’ exhibition exploring climate migration and justice

+ Public launch and screening of the film ‘Crossing Footprints: Human Migration and the Environment’ by Kooj Chuhan / Metaceptive Media, about both the Human Migration and The Environment Conference and the Footprint Modulation art exhibition www.metaceptive.net/footprint-modulation

Chaired by Dr Helen Adams, researcher on human interactions with environmental change at Kings College

This film screening and panel discussion event is FREE to attend. 

REGISTER to confirm your attendance at: http://linking-climate-change-with-migration.eventbrite.co.uk/

MAP: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx tel: 020 7836 5454

Please indicate on facebook if you are going at https://www.facebook.com/events/1681901928757452/

Organised by Dr Andrew Baldwin and Kooj Chuhan in partnership with UKCCMC, the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (Durham University), the Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience (King’s College London), and supported by SOAS and BARAC.

http://crossingfootprints.com
http://www.climatemigration.org.uk
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography
www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/research/cirrr/

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Crossing Footprints - Linking Climate Change with Migration (Flyer)

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