Global Justice Events in London: May

* Thursday sees two comedy gigs marking the foundation of the state of Israel, pro (Israel at 60: Sarit Hadad, at Wembley Mason, with jackie Mason) and critical (60 Years - What A State, with Ivor Demba, Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Shazia Mirza and Reginald D Hunter.

* Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a Science Museum exhibition, Does Flying Cost the Earth?, which opens on 15 May. On show will be models of the aeroplanes, the lightest new materials and advanced engine technologies.

* The Frontline Club is running a Congo Season, with talks (Demystifying the Congo/ The Rape of a Nation/ Lifting the Curse) and films (The Greatest Silence - Rape in the Congo/ The UN in Congo/ The UN's Dirty War/ Mission Impossible ).

Daniel Nelson
Editor

Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

27.04.2008 Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a son’s documentary about his dad. But what a dad!

Talks and Meetings

until 8 May
* Endangered Languages Week , a week of events. Programme

Thursday 8 May
* ALNAP - Improving the International Humanitarian System, 5:30pm, ODI, 111, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* The Pirate's Dilemma: how hackers, punk capitalists and graffiti millionaires are remixing our culture and changing our world, Matt Mason, 1pm, free, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: lectures@rsa.org.uk/ 7451 6868
* Ghanaian Communities and Conservation, John Mason, Patrick Ofori Dansen, 7pm, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 01865 318856/ events@earthwatch.org.uk/ Earthwatch
* London - Can big business stop climate change?, Claire Fox, Peter Hardstaff, video contributions include John Redwood, KT Tunstall, Rob Newman, Leo Murray, 7.30-9.30pm, Amnesty International Human Rights Action centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: Programme
* Ma Jian, one of China's foremost dissident writers, 7.45pm, £7.50, Southbank Centre. Info: 0871 663 2586/ Southbank
* India in a globalising world and Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma, 6pm, Royal Commonwealth Society, Nortumberland Avenue. Info: 7766 9202
* Globalizing flu: pandemic surveillance and the making of post-war international health, Michael Bresalier, 12:45pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1. Info: 7927 2434/ ingrid.james@lshtm.ac.uk

9-11 May
* Ladyfest, arts festival with music, films, talks, video. Programme

Friday 9 May
* Producing policy change: Innovation in the agriculture sector, Andrew Barnett, Karim Hussein, Ann Waters-Bayer, John Young, Jim Ellis-Jones, 12:30pm, ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: Events/ 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* Kenya's Crisis, 10am-4pm, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Russell Square. Info: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
* 360degreesbacktolife, book launch with Vandana Shah, 6.30pm, Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, W1. Info: nehrucentre@btconnect.com/ nehrucentre@aol.com/ 7 491 3567

Saturday 10 May
* Free Palestine demo, Dr Mustafa Barghouti, Olfat Mahmoud, Prof Manuel Hassassian, Tony Benn, Caroline Lucas MEP, Hugh Lanning, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Richard Burden MPassemble, 1pm Temple Tube for rally in Trafalgar Square. Info: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
* Moscow 1941: a city and its people at war, Sir Rodric Braithwaite, 1pm, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1. Info: 7416 5439/ boxoffice@iwm.org.uk
* London Aware: Green Ideas for Everyday Living, two-day conference and exhibition with sessions on Climate change: Where do we go from here?, Green design: Re-inventing the way we live, Inspire Your Boss: Green-up your workplace, Food: How what we eat affects us all, Greening your life and home: practical ways to make a difference, Climate change: Today's reality around the world, The reality of climate change: Inconvenient truth or convenient lie?, The future: Tomorrow's sustainable world, Ethical Investment and Banking: What it means and understanding the power of our money, Ethical careers: Jobs with a conscience, Is doing good, good for business?, Barbican Centre, Silk Street. Info: London Aware

11 May
* London Aware: Green Ideas for Everyday Living, second day of exhibition and conference, Climate change: Where do we go from here?, Green design:Re-inventing the way we live, Inspire Your Boss: Green-up your workplace, Food: How what we eat affects us all, Greening your life and home: practical ways to make a difference, Climate change: Today's reality around the world, The reality of climate change: Inconvenient truth or convenient lie?, The future: Tomorrow's sustainable world, Ethical Investment and Banking: What it means and understanding the power of our money, Ethical careers: Jobs with a conscience, Is doing good, good for business?, Barbican Centre, Silk Street. Info: London Aware
* The Jewish East End - Spitalfields, walking tour tracing the steps of 19th century immigrants, 10.15am, £10. Info: 8371 7373

Monday 12 May
* McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers, Misha Glenny on his new book, 6.30pm, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: polis@lse.ac.uk
* Time for a Revival of Disarmament?, Dr Hans Blix, 6pm, free, RSA 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: lectures@rsa.org.uk/ 7451 6868
* Nuclear Weapons - Abolition Now, Bruce Kent, 6.45pm, £3, The Gallery, Cowcross St, EC1. Info: 07984 178 193/ Friends of Le Monde
* The role of the IMF in low-income countries and the role of low-income countries in the IMF; Time for a change?, Masood Ahmed, Lauren Phillips, 1pm, Portcullis House, Victoria Embankment, SW1. Info: Events

Tuesday 13 May
* Women ninety years on: a quiet revolution, Shirley Williams, 6.30pm, £7.50, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1. Info: 7320 2222/ Library
* The role of the IMF in low-income countries and the role of low-income countries in the IMF: Time for a change?, Masood Ahmed, Alison Evans, 1pm, Portcullis House, Victoria Embankment,SW1. Info: Events/ 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* Concreting the countryside, Simon Jenkins, Sir Peter Hall, Martin Crookston, 7pm, £10/£15, Royal Geographical Society. Info: 7591 3100/ events@rgs.org / 21st century challenges/ RGS
* The BBC, the licence fee, and the future of the UK PSB, Sir Michael Lyons, 6pm, free, RSA 8 John Adam Street,WC2. Info: lectures@rsa.org.uk/ 7451 6868
* New innovations in the control of neglected tropical diseases, Prof Peter Hotez, 5pm, Medical School Building, St Mary's, W2. Info: 7594 3729/ l.hollick@imperial.ac.uk
* Global Health Governance – Who is accountable to whom?, 4.30–6pm, UCL Anatomy Building, WC1. Info: 7679 2000
* Responsible Business Summit, Park Plaza Hotel. Info: Summit

Wednesday 14 May
* Honour Killings, Honour Oppression, conference with Diana Nammi, Brent Hyatt, Juliette Murray-Topham, Nazir Afzal, Sarah Pepper, Jasvinder Sanghera, Steve Allen, Baroness Caroline Cox, that will also launch the national 'Honour Crime' helpline, £40 organisations/ £20 ngos/ £10 individuals, Amnesty International Human Rights Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: 7490 0303/ ikwro@yahoo.co.uk
* Writing from the Frontline, Elizabeth Pisani, Polly Clayden, Corinne Squaire, on HIV/AIDS and public scientific literacy, 7.45pm, £10, Southbank Centre. Info: 0871 663 2586/ Southbank
* If I am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, Mike Marqusee on his new book, 7pm, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1. Info: 7269 9030/ books@lrbshop.co.uk
* Israel at Sixty - What Chance for Peace?, Professor Shai Feldman, 7.30pm, £7, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* Management with a Pulse, VSO seminar, free, 6-8pm. Info: 8780 7500/ VSO Events
* Spotlight on Russia, one-day conference, Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, SW1. Info: 7149 3705/ info@chechnyapeaceforum.com
* Can Communities in the UK Coexist?, Professor Michael Keith, Steven Douglas, 7pm, £6, University College, Gower Street, WC1. Info: 7388 8822
* Palestine, Britain & Empire: 1841-1948, public conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the British withdrawal from the Palestine mandate, Simon Anglim, Eitan Bar-Yosef, Martin Bunton, Antoine Capet, Motti Golani, Matthew Hughes, John Knight, William Roger Louis, Michael Martin, Rory Miller, Heleen Murre Van Den Berg, Susan Pedersen, El-Eina Roza, Avi Schlaim, Penny Sinanonglou, King’s College. Info: mwhaymand@mbifoundation.com

Thursday 15 May
* The power of language and the politics of religion, Ali A Mazrui,London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7839 8157/ lecture@commonwealth.int
* Yan Lianke, dissident Chinese writer, 7.45pm, £7.50, Southbank Centre. Info: 0871 663 2586/ Southbank
* What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader?, David Runciman, 7pm, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1. Info: 7269 9030/ books@lrbshop.co.uk
* Lifting the Curse, 7.30pm, £7, Frontline Club, Info: 7479 8950/ Frontline
* Documenting Disappearance: Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image, Omar D, Dr Anthony Downey, Nassera Dutour, plus short film, based on the book Devoir de mémoire/A Biography of Disappearance, Algeria 1992 by Chilean filmmaker Felipe Canales, 6.30pm, free, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7739 8748/ info@autograph-abp.co.uk/ Autograph ABP


Exhibitions

* Queen and Country, Steve McQueen's cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each dedicated to a soldier killed in Iraq, until 1 June, free, Royal Festival Hall; then at the Barbican Centre 4 June–27 July before touring the country

* Cartoon Watch Magazine, exhibition of India's only monthly cartoon magazine, Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, W1, until 9 May. Info: nehrucentre@btconnect.com/ nehrucentre@aol.com/ 491 3567

* Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, video, photography and performance by Milena Bonilla, Maria Elvira Escallin, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Oscar Muioz and Maria Isabel Rueda, Photographer's Gallery, 5 & 8 Great Newport Street, WC2, until 15 June. Info: 7831 1772 ext 201/ info@photonet.org.uk/ Photonet

* Bangladesh 1971, photographic exhibition about the war of independence, Rivington Place, off Rivington Street, EC2, until 31 May. Info: Rivington
+ Seasons of films at Rich Mix. Info: 7613 7490. Details: see Film
+ Bangladesh war: history on show

* Life, Redefined: Orphanhood and AIDS in Zambia, photographs by Namvula Rennie, until 11 May, The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1

* The Browning of Britannia, Faisal Abdu'Allah work is based on the mysterious life of a man with an extraordinary past, until 18 May, BFI Southbank Gallery, Belvedere Road, SE1. Info: BFI

* War Artists in the Middle East, work by British artists who have documented conflict in the Middle East from the First World War to recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, until 11 May 2008, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1. Info: mail@iwm.org.uk/ 7416 5320

* Helmand: The Soldiers’ Story, "the first museum exhibition about a contemporary, ongoing conflict", National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3. Info: 7730 0717/ Exhibition

* Outside Edge, a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history of the last 30 years, Museum in Docklands

* 1968 on Record: a year of revolution, small foyer exhibition, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1. Info: 1968/ Events/ 7412 7332/

* Black Britannia, John Ferguson's photographs, City Hall, The Queen's Walk, SE1. Info: 7983 4100/ London

* London, Sugar & Slavery gallery, new permanent gallery at the Museum in Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, E14. Info: 0870 444 3852/ 0870 444 3851/ info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ London's dirtiest secret
+ Heroes of Abolition, display of photographs of the self-governing Maroon community in Jamaica organised by hip hop photographer Jennie Baptiste who helped six young Londoners research the history of African resistance to slavery and visit Maroons in the town of Accompong, until 31 August

* Science of Survival, hands-on exhibition explores how the way we live will change over the next few decades in response to climate change, until 2 November, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7. Info: 7942 4357/ Science Museum/ Science of Survival

* Atlantic Worlds, new transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565

from 9 May
* Edward Burtynsky, huge photographs of industrial landscapes around the world, Flowers Central, until 24 May (for new documentary about his work, Manufactured landscapes, see Film)
* Lovin' It, photographs by Adam Hinton of the emergence of an aggressive consumer society in Shanghai, HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, EC1, until 7 June. Info: 7253 2770/ info@hostgallery.co.uk/ Host
+ In the Ring,14 May, 6.30pm, Colin Jacobson talks to Adam Hinton
+ China: Media, Culture, Politics & Changes Within, 21 May, 6.30pm, Dr Kerry Brown and Hugo de Burgh discuss the changes happening within Chinese media and culture.

from 12 May
* Prague: Wandering Between August 1960 and November 1989, photographs, posters and flyers of the Soviet invasionuntil 30 May, Barbican, Silk Street

from 15 May
* Eco-friendly aeroplane technologies, Antenna Gallery, Science Museum, until 15 November.

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