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SUMMARY:His Name is George Floyd
DESCRIPTION:You know how he died. This is how he lived. A conversation with the authors of this intimate\, scrupulous biography which places Floyd’s life in the context of white supremacy. \n\n\n\nDrawing on hundreds of interviews with friends and family members\, His Name Is George Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd’s life and death – from his forebears’ roots in slavery to an underfunded education\, the overpolicing of his community and the devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate portrait of this one\, emblematic life\, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Samuels\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Samuels is a national political enterprise reporter at The Washington Post. He has traveled across the United States over the course of three presidencies to write human stories about politics\, race and the changing American identity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToluse Olorunnipa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToluse Olorunnipa is a political enterprise reporter for The Washington Post and a CNN analyst. Reporting from five continents and more than forty states during three presidencies\, he has documented the real-world impact of the White House and federal policy on underserved communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShola Mos-Shogbamimu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is a political & women’s rights activist\, taught intersectional feminism to female refugees and asylum seekers; scrutinizes government policies from a gender and diversity inclusion perspective; and co-organises women’s marches and social campaigns. She is also a New York Attorney and Solicitor of England & Wales with broad expertise in the financial services industry\, writer\, public speaker and political commentator featured in mainstream and online media. She founded the Women in Leadership publication as a platform to drive positive change on topical issues that impact women globally through inspiring personal leadership journeys; and established She@LawTalks to promote women & BAME leadership in the legal profession through universities and secondary schools. An academic enthusiast\, she has an Executive MBA (Cambridge); PhD (Birkbeck); LLM (London School of Economics & Political Science); MA (Westminster) and LLB Hons (Buckingham University). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook details: \n\n\n\nHis Name Is George Floyd: One man’s life and the struggle for racial justice
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/his-name-is-george-floyd/
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Scottish BPOC Writers Network: First Breath - Artist reflections
DESCRIPTION:Join an evening of celebration as the Scottish Black and PoC (BPOC) Writers Network invites you to admire three brilliant Black artists and writers to read and present some of their work and practice. Expect poetry as well as more visual art forms\, exuberant talent\, and a candid discussion amongst panellists. The creatives have been invited to reflect and share ideas on the theme – First Breath – and perhaps to articulate how breathing and the breath transpires in their work. What does it mean to consider and materialise this instinctive but vital act? \n\n\n\nSpeaker biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nBrenda Vengesa\n\n\n\n\nAccordion content. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrenda Vengesa has worked in the Accounting and Finance sector for over 10 years. She is currently working full time whilst working on her first novel and poetry collection. Brenda has also worked on onstage where she has performed in amateur musical theatre with the MAMA (Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association). She used the lockdown period from the pandemic to reignite her passion for the arts and sharpen her skills. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Williams is an author\, poet and the founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association. She curates education programmes\, arts events and walking tours to promote the shared heritage between Scotland and the Caribbean and the possiblities of decolonising and anti-racist practice. She is an Honorary Fellow in the School of History\, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh\, a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews and works as a consultant to heritage organisations across Scotland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThulani Rachia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThulani Rachia is an artist and educator based in Glasgow. His work is informed by architecture\, design\, performing and visual arts and his upbringing in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Working through the legacies of the Apartheid regime and Dutch and British colonial rule\, his work investigates how the built environment carries this history and shapes contemporary social relationships. Siwaguba kanjani amaphupho ethu agqitjwe kulezindonga?: how do we excavate the dreams laid to rest in these walls? acts as a focal point to explore ideas around colonial legacies\, reparations and healing within the built environment. Thulani is currently a resident on the Talbot Rice Residency Programme 2022/23. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout SBWN\n\n\n\nScottish BPOC Writers Network (SBWN) is an advocacy and professional development community organisation for and by Scottish and Scotland-based writers and literary professionals who identify as BPOC (Black people\, People of Colour). Its aim is to uplift\, validate and provide safer spaces for marginalised voices\, nurturing and promoting the current and next generation of Black and POC writers based in Scotland.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/scottish-bpoc-writers-network-first-breath-artist-reflections/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Digesting the Futures Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Our objective is to reflect on the Edinburgh Futures Conversations and create an open platform to share knowledge through conversation. \n\n\n\nConceived by Lois Weaver\, a Long Table is a dinner table setting where\, instead of food\, conversation is on the menu. Hosted in a physical space\, it is a non-hierarchical process of participation where people gather to discuss topics of mutual interest. A curated group of guests will set the table with food for thought. Following this\, anyone can join the table to steer the conversation\, mediate moments of tension\, and amplify voices not always heard. \n\n\n\nThere is no intent to come to a conclusion.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/digesting-the-futures-conversations/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:The Future of Climate Justice - Actions that change systems
DESCRIPTION:While everyone is witnessing the impacts of climate change\, in many regions of the world people are losing their homes\, livelihoods\, culture and lives. It is not enough to recognise that climate change is accelerating. Climate change is one of the greatest drivers of injustice the world has ever seen. \n\n\n\nThe final event in The Future of Climate Justice series takes place online with an extended community of climate justice leaders share and examine the actions that change systems. Climate justice is gender justice\, it is environmental justice\, intergenerational justice\, racial justice\, economic justice\, and nature justice. This conversation is about movement and change\, recognising that as words shape policies and processes\, words made good will shape our future. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\n\n\nKhairani Barokka\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditor of Modern Poetry in Translation\, Khairani Barokka is a writer\, poet and artist in London. She’s a practice-based researcher\, whose work centres disability justice as anti-colonial praxis. She was Modern Poetry in Translation’s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence\, the first non-British Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing\, and an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow\, and is currently UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation and Research Fellow at University of the Arts London.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice C. Hill\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice C. Hill is an expert on building resilience to catastrophic risks. She previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council. Prior to this\, she served as senior counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and climate change preparedness\, Alice currently serves as the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2020\, Yale University and the Op-Ed Project awarded her the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot is an author\, Guardian columnist and environmental activist. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the Land\, Sea and Human Life; Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning\, and Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. George co-wrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan\, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them\, adapted from his 2013 TED Talk\, How Wolves Change Rivers\, has been viewed on YouTube over 40m times. Another\, on Natural Climate Solutions\, that he co-presented with Greta Thunberg\, has been watched over 60m times. George’s latest book\, Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet\, was published in May 2022.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa Nakate\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa Nakate is a climate justice activist from Uganda and founder of the Africa-based Rise Up Movement and the Green Schools Project. She began striking for the climate in her hometown of Kampala in January 2019\, after witnessing droughts and flooding devastating communities in Uganda. She now campaigns internationally to highlight the impacts of climate change already playing out in Africa\, as well as promoting key climate solutions such as educating girls. In 2020\, Vanessa was named a UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals\, as well as being listed one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the year and the 100 most influential young Africans.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMitzi Jonelle Tan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMitzi Jonelle Tan is a full-time climate justice activist based in Metro Manila\, Philippines. She is the convenor and international spokesperson of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP)\, the Fridays for Future (FFF) of the Philippines. She is also an organizer with FFF International and FFF MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas) making sure that voices from the Global South are heard and amplified. She decided to commit her life to activism in 2017 after integrating with the Lumad indigenous leaders of her country which pushed her to realize that collective action and system change are what we need for a just and green society.    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Young\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClimate activist\, environmental scientist\, sustainability communicator\, and ethical influencer. Laura advocates for environmental education and climate justice. Her social media platforms have created a community of activists under the platform Less Waste Laura. Laura is currently working on a PhD between the University of Abertay and the University of Dundee as a Hydro Nations Scholar in climate resilience. You can hear her regularly on BBC Radio Scotland\, BBC Radio 5Live\, STV and Sky News. She works with businesses of all sizes\, and the Scottish Government\, to pursue environmental sustainability. She has a variety of voluntary positions\, including the 2050 Climate Group\, Scottish Wildlife Trust Young Leaders\, and the Marine Conservation Society Youth Ocean Network.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nEilzabeth Bomberg\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Bomberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Edinburgh\, School of Social and Political Science. She is an award winning teacher and mentor to university students active in climate initiatives and scholarship\, and is currently serving as Programme Director for the MSc Global Environment\, Politics and Society. Her primary research activity falls into the broad area of comparative US and UK environmental politics\, with particular emphasis on climate activism and policy\, shale politics\, and community energy. She has co-led funded projects on faith-based activism\, US policy\, grassroots mobilization\, and energy governance in Scotland.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-climate-justice-actions-that-change-systems/
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Futures Conversations –  A Watch Party
DESCRIPTION:This is an opportunity for the EFI and its extended community to come together and join a live viewing of the online panel in a casual and relaxed atmosphere and to extend into Digesting the Futures Conversations – a Long table discussion.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-futures-conversations-a-watch-party/
LOCATION:Room LG.11 – 40 George Square\, The University of Edinburgh\, 40 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Futures Conversations – AMUK
DESCRIPTION:While everyone is witnessing the impacts of climate change\, in many regions of the world people are losing their homes\, livelihoods\, culture and lives. It is not enough to recognise that climate change is accelerating. Climate change is one of the greatest drivers of injustice the world has ever seen. \n\n\n\nIn AMUK\, Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka performs a new\, archipelago-futurist piece on environmental and climate crises as the result of centuries of colonial extractivism. Through the colonial histories leading to the mistranslation of the Malay/Indonesian word ‘amuk’ into ‘amuck’\, and the phrase ‘running amuck’\, these words are imagined as characters in literal dialogue with and against each other.    \n\n\n\nThis specially commissioned poetry performance from Khairani Barokka builds on questions of climate policy and finance to tell the story – a story\, our story\, the story of our earth. Through her work and in conversation with Esa Aldegheri\, Khairani Barokka will shift our understanding of the climate crisis from an external clash of nature and humanity to an internal struggle of behaviours\, histories\, cultures and ethics. \n\n\n\nPerformer/Speaker Biographies\n\n\n\nPerformer\n\n\n\n\n\nKhairani Barokka\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKhairani Barokka  is Editor of Modern Poetry in Translation\, and a writer and artist from Jakarta\, whose work has been presented widely internationally\, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis and environmental justice. Among her honours\, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation’s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence\, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change\, an Artforum Must-See\, UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation\, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing (UK). Okka’s work includes being author-illustrator of Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis)\, author of Rope (Nine Arches)\, and co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches). Her most recent installation was at Museum Nasional for Jakarta Biennale\, and her latest book is Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches)\, shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nEsa Aldegheri\n\n\n\n\nDr. Esa Aldegheri is a multilingual writer\, educator and scholar. She studied Arabic at the University of Edinburgh and now works at the University of Glasgow supporting the integration of people seeking sanctuary in Scotland. Her non-fiction debut Free to Go (John Murray Press\, 2022) moves beyond the parameters of a simple travel narrative to explore different aspects of freedom and borders\, both geopolitical and personal. It is a story about travelling from Orkney to New Zealand on a motorbike shared with a willing companion\, interwoven with a parallel tale of diminished liberties linked to the author’s experiences of motherhood\, Brexit and pandemic restrictions. Esa’s non-fiction writing has also been published by Granta\, Gutter Press\, the Dangerous Women Project and others. Her poetry has been read on Radio 4 and Radio Scotland and features in several anthologies. She is from Scotland and Italy\, and lives with her family by the sea near Edinburgh.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-futures-conversations-amuk/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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SUMMARY:The Future of Climate Justice  – Reparation and Equality
DESCRIPTION:It is not enough to recognise that climate change is accelerating. Climate change is one of the greatest drivers of injustice the world has ever seen. Those who have contributed the least are facing the greatest burden from an increasingly volatile climate system. While everyone is witnessing the impacts of climate change\, in many regions of the world people are losing their homes\, livelihoods\, culture and lives. \n\n\n\nThe first Future of Climate Justice conversation will take place in the University of Edinburgh’s Playfair Library. The outcome document of COP26 – the Glasgow Climate Pact – is prominent\, contentious and was reluctantly agreed by rich nations. It behoves all of us to ask what has happened. Where are the finances to make life-saving changes happen? Drawing on the language of ‘loss and damage’ this conversation will ask what needs to be done and how can we do it. \n\n\n\nThis panel event opens the third in the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations series and features Adrienne Buller\, Elizabeth Cripps\, Tasneem Essop\, Arunabha Ghosh\, AC Grayling\, Patricia Scotland\, chaired by Hermione Cockburn. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nAdrienne Buller\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdrienne Buller is Director of Research at Common Wealth\, a progressive\, philanthropically funded think tank dedicated to building a democratic and sustainable economy. Her research focuses primarily on the intersections of the climate and nature crises and the financial system. She is the author of The Value of a Whale\, published by Bloomsbury and the co-author of Owning the Future (Verso\, 2022). *Please note that Adrienne Buller is unable to make the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Cripps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Cripps is a moral philosopher with a focus on climate ethics and justice\, and Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Climate Change and the Moral Agent (OUP\, 2013). Her latest book\, What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care\, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022; her next\, Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher’s Guide to Doing Right by your Kids – and Everyone Else\, will be published by the MIT press in 2021. As a journalist\, she worked for the Financial Times Group. Elizabeth has written opinion pieces for the Guardian\, the Herald and the Big Issue\, she appears on podcasts\, radio shows and at literary festivals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTasneem Essop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTasneem Essop is the Executive Director of Climate Action Network International (CAN-I). She completed a second term as Commissioner in the National Planning Commission in South Africa and leads the work on Climate Change and the Just Transition. She headed the climate team in WWF International and served as the Head of Delegation for the organisation at the UNFCCC. As a student and youth activist\, teacher and trade unionist\, Tasneem was an anti-apartheid activist from an early age. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArunabha Ghosh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArunabha Ghosh is an international public policy expert\, author\, columnist\, and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy\, Environment and Water (CEEW)\, consistently ranked as one of Asia’s leading policy research institutions; and among the world’s best climate think-tanks. With experience in 45 countries\, Arunabha advises governments\, industry\, civil society and international organisations around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAC Grayling\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAC Grayling is the Founder and Principal of New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University\, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College\, Oxford. The author of over thirty books of philosophy\, biography\, history of ideas\, and essays\, he is a columnist contributing to leading newspapers in the UK\, US and Australia\, and to the BBC. He is a two-time judge of the Booker Prize and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, and the Royal Society of Literature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rt Hon Patricia Scotland\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rt Hon Patricia Scotland\, who took office as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth in April 2016\, serves the 54 governments and 2.4 billion people of the Commonwealth. Born in Dominica\, she moved to the UK at an early age. A lawyer by profession\, she became the first black\, and youngest\, woman ever to be appointed Queen’s Counsel. She was appointed to the House of Lords as Baroness Scotland of Asthal in 1997 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nHermoine Cockburn\n\n\n\n\nHermione Cockburn is the Scientific Director of Dynamic Earth\, the UK’s only science centre entirely focused on the Earth’s story. She began work in environmental research after completing a PhD in geomorphology from the University of Edinburgh. For the past 20 years\, she has dedicated her career to engaging people with science. She has presented many programmes for the BBC including Coast\, Rough Science and an award-winning radio series on bacteria. For her BBC2 series\, Fossil Detectives\, she also wrote an accompanying book. She taught environmental science for the Open University in Scotland for 10 years and is passionate about facilitating life-long learning. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society\, and is a Trustee of the Association of Science and Discovery Centres. She was awarded an OBE for services to public engagement in science in 2020. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh Futures Conversations   \n\n\n\nThe University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations is a series of events aimed at promoting global cooperation in solving the critical challenges facing the world\, especially post Covid-19. They bring together global influencers\, academic experts\, policymakers\, writers\, activists and artists\, including our alumni and our students\, to debate possible solutions and define the actions necessary to achieve them. They seek to engage the wider public\, opening conversation and creating change across local and international communities. Series events are free and open to all and are delivered by the Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nFor more information on the series: https://www.ed.ac.uk/events/lecture-series/edinburgh-futures-conversations
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-climate-justice-reparation-and-equality/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:First Breath: Autumn 2022
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