Global Justice Events in London: November
* Film seasons to savour this month include Behind the Wall, a look at the significance of the Berlin Wall; the UK Jewish Film Festival; popuplink http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/memorydoc Memory, A Season of European Documentaries>; We the Peoples Film Festival; Festival of German Films and the London Kurdish Film Festival.
* There's also the London African Film Festival , beginning 26 November. The Programme contains features and documentaries, including Tariq Teguia’s Inland; Abakar Chene Massar’s Captain Majid, about disenchanted youth in Chad; Ethiopian director Nega Tariku’s Adera, a story of an Ethiopian refugee’s struggle to survive in Johannesburg; Nigerian documentary filmmaker Sani Elhadj Magori’s For the Best and for the Onion, about a man’s determination to get the best onion harvest in order to marry the love of his life; Wanuri Kahui’s From A Whisper, a drama based on the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998. Special events include Producing and Distributing African Film in the Digital Era, Sunday 29 November.
* Exhibitions include Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, a free Science Museum exhibit that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, and Eco Home, which examines current ideas around 'eco-living'.
* Other climate events include talks on Climate change and international development: the Conservative perspective; Solving Global Warming; a lecture on how the idea that we shouldn’t mess around with nature has become the new opium of the masses (The Myth of Natural Balance); Mediating Change Project: climate change and culture discussion; The implications of climate change for sustainable development, and the prospects for progress at Copenhagen and beyond; a TV programme on Can Obama Save the Planet?, and a screening of The Age of Stupid. On just one day (24 November), there's Deal or No Deal? – The Inside Track on Copenhagen, the launch of "Climate Frontline: African Communities Adapting to Survive"; Climate Change and Security; Hot Off The Press? The Media and Climate Change; and International Action: Too Little, Too Late?. Foud days later, there's The Great Global Warm-Up, workshops, discussion and debate.
* On the stage, there's Seize The Day, Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play about a would-be Black mayor, and This Much Is True, on the impact of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Daniel Nelson
Editor
* There's also the London African Film Festival , beginning 26 November. The Programme contains features and documentaries, including Tariq Teguia’s Inland; Abakar Chene Massar’s Captain Majid, about disenchanted youth in Chad; Ethiopian director Nega Tariku’s Adera, a story of an Ethiopian refugee’s struggle to survive in Johannesburg; Nigerian documentary filmmaker Sani Elhadj Magori’s For the Best and for the Onion, about a man’s determination to get the best onion harvest in order to marry the love of his life; Wanuri Kahui’s From A Whisper, a drama based on the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998. Special events include Producing and Distributing African Film in the Digital Era, Sunday 29 November.
* Exhibitions include Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, a free Science Museum exhibit that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, and Eco Home, which examines current ideas around 'eco-living'.
* Other climate events include talks on Climate change and international development: the Conservative perspective; Solving Global Warming; a lecture on how the idea that we shouldn’t mess around with nature has become the new opium of the masses (The Myth of Natural Balance); Mediating Change Project: climate change and culture discussion; The implications of climate change for sustainable development, and the prospects for progress at Copenhagen and beyond; a TV programme on Can Obama Save the Planet?, and a screening of The Age of Stupid. On just one day (24 November), there's Deal or No Deal? – The Inside Track on Copenhagen, the launch of "Climate Frontline: African Communities Adapting to Survive"; Climate Change and Security; Hot Off The Press? The Media and Climate Change; and International Action: Too Little, Too Late?. Foud days later, there's The Great Global Warm-Up, workshops, discussion and debate.
* On the stage, there's Seize The Day, Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play about a would-be Black mayor, and This Much Is True, on the impact of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Daniel Nelson
Editor
Image: Seize The Day
At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. A new play takes the London stage.
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A Ghost Forest from Ghana is in Trafalgar Square before it moves to Copenhagen for the international climate change conference.
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Talks and Meetings
Saturday 21 November
* Against Sharia & religious laws and for an end to violence against women & children: Rally to mark Universal Children's Day and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Johann Hari, Roy Brown, AC Grayling, Maryam Namazie, Terri Sanderson, Peter Tatchell, 12pm-2pm, Hyde Park, North Carriage Drive, between Stanhope Place Gate and Albion Gate. Info: onelawforall.org.uk / 07719166731
* The Peoples Charter convention, 10am-3pm, £5, Camden Centre, Bidborough street, WC1. Info: Charter
Monday 23 November
* Living in a Digital World, Dame Wendy Hall, 7.30pm, Science Museum. Info: Science Museum
* Climate change and international development: the Conservative perspective, Andrew Mitchell MP, 10:30am, Overseas Development Institute, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.u/ ODI
* The Myth of Natural Balance, Slavoj Žižek criticises the ideology that has grown up around ecology and argues that the notion that that we shouldn’t mess around with nature has become the new opium of the masses, £10/£9/£8, 6.45pm, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: ICA
* Governance: How can the UK help African reformers?, Richard Dowden, 12.15pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: 7898 4370/ cas@soas.ac.uk
* The road to recovery: Business as usual or a green new deal?, Andrew Simms, Paul Golby, 7pm, £11.50, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1. Info: 7520 1490/ Place
* Mediating Change Project: Climate change and culture discussion , Mike Hulme, 6:30-8pm, The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, NW1. Info: 0754079406
* Global Perspectives on the Current Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on developing countries, Professor Frances Stewart, 6:15pm, UCL, Gower Street, WC1. Info: 7679 7396
* Climb the Green Ladder: how sustainability can make you and your company more successful, Ed Gillespie, Jo Confino, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
Tuesday 24 November
* Deal or No Deal? – The Inside Track on Copenhagen, Jenny Willott MP, Justin Rowlatt, David Nussbaum, Daleep Mukarji, Apa Sherpa and Dawa Sherpa, 6-7.30pm, Houses of Parliament, SW1
* Launch of Climate Frontline: African Communities Adapting to Survive, Sigurd Jorde, Saleemul Huq, Christie Peacock, Roger Williams MP, The Astor Suite, 1 Parliament Street, 4-6pm. Info: BIRCHJ@parliament.uk
* Climate Change and Security, Shiloh Fetzek, 2–3.30pm, House of Commons, SW1. Info: catherine.martin@carbonneutral.com/ 7833 6035
* Hot Off The Press? The Media and Climate Change, discussion, free, 7pm, The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. Info: Booking
* International Action: Too Little, Too Late?, Professor Bob Spicer, Steve Drummond, Andy Kerr and Dr Matt Prescott, 7pm, free, Huxley Building, Imperial College, 180 Queen’s Gate, SW7
* The G20: perils and opportunities for developing countries, Ngaire Woods, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300 / meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* West Africa's International Drugs Trade, Dr Stephen Ellis, Dr Kwesi Aning, Alexandre Schmidt, Alan Campbell MP, 6pm, Houses of Parliament. Info: ras_research@soas.ac.uk/ 02030738337
* David Ben Gurion, 1948 and the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Prof. Ilan Pappe, 5pm, SOAS, Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise, WC1
* Digital natives – a lost tribe?, Sonia Livingstone and David Buckingham, 6.30pm, free, New Academic Building, London School of Economics, Alsdwych. Info: polis@lse.ac.uk
* Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity, Robert Albritton, 6.30, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: a.colas@bbk.ac.uk
* Theory into Practice, Charles Correa on low-income housing and urban planning in India, 6.30pm, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, W1. Info: 7307 3813
* Londongrad: From Russia with cash, Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley on their investigation into the lifestyles of the Russian oligarchs who built vast personal fortunes in Russia and moved to the UK following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* Christopher Anderson on Capitolio, the photographer talks about his new book on Caracas, 7pm, £5/£8, HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, EC1. Info: 7253 2770
* New Directions in US Foreign Policy, Don Abelson, TInderjeet Parmar, Mark Ledwidge, Giles Scott-Smith, Tim Lynch, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Senate House, WC1. Info: 7862 8870/ americas@sas.ac.uk
* Refugee citizens go to the polls: democratic reform in Western Sahara's liberation movement, Alice Wilson, 6-7.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Jihad: the trail of Political Islam, Professor Gilles Kepel, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* Black Theatre - Never Been So Good?, Roy Williams, 7pm, £5, hosted by Talawa Theatre Company, £5, 53-55 East Road, N1. Info: Talk
Wednesday 25 November
* In conversation with Shami Chakrabarti, 7pm, free, Museum of London, London Wall, EC2. Info: 7001 9844
* Woman-killing in Mexico and Central America, 4–6pm, Parliamentary meeting, House of Commons, SW1. Info: CAWN
* Masdar City to One Brighton, David Nelson, Peter Clegg and Pooran Desai on how design can make property development more sustainable, 6.30pm, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, W1. Info: 7307 3813
* Reflections: Allan Little, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* Parading the 'Crème de la Crème' for the national good: beauty contests, feminine spectacle and new masculinities in Barbados 1959-1966, Rochelle Rowe 5pm, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1. Info: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
* Our Changing Perceptions of National Security, Sir Richard Dearlove, 6pm, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2. Info: Event
* The Transnational Flows of the Black Atlantic Post-9/11: hip-hop as the soundtrack to US imperialism, Omar El-Khairy, 5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: pr1@soas.ac.uk
* The American Empire in Light of the Global Crisis, Profs Alex Callinicos and Leo Panitch, 6:30pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: pr1@soas.ac.uk
* First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Double Death of Neoliberalism and the Idea of Communism, Slavoj Zizek, 1pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* The future of human rights: Torture, boredom, and doubt at the United Nations, Toby Kelly, 3pm, SOAS, Russell Square, WC1. Info: mm101@soas.ac.uk/ mail es7@soas.ac.uk, es7@soas.ac.uk>
* Long Live the Yugosphere, Tim Judah, 6pm, LSE, Houghton Street, WC1
Thursday 26 November
* 'War on Terror' launch, Professors Conor Gearty and Joanna Bourke launch the latest publication from the Oxford Amnesty Lecture Series, 7pm, free, Human Rights Action Centre. Info: Amnesty events
* The implications of climate change for sustainable development, and the prospects for progress at Copenhagen and beyond, Dr. Ashok Khosla, House of Commons, 2–3.30pm. Info: catherine.martin@carbonneutral.com/ 7833 6035
* Killer's Paradise: Women Victims of Violence in Guatemala, film screening, followed by Q&A Bolivar Hall, W1. Info: CAWN
* Uncharted territory: land, conflict and humanitarian action, Dr. Sara Pantuliano, Dr. Liz Alden Wily, Paul Harvey, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* Points-Based System: Can it really make labour migration work for Britain?, Professor Eleonore Kofman, Jeremy Oppenheim, Keith Vaz MP, Garden Court Chambers, 7pm (after JCWI agm at 6pm), 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2. Info: JCWI
* Black Victorians, Caroline Bressey, 5-6pm, free, Museum of London. Info: 7001 9844
* Bretton Woods Project winter social, 5.30pm onwards, The Reliance (upstairs) 336 Old Street, EC1. Info: A Pint
* After FOCAC IV: China and Africa - Emerging patterns, Dr. Julia Strauss, Dr Chris Alden, Prof. Stephen Chan, 6pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Who Ended the Cold War?, Andrei Grachev, Mary Kaldor, Jack Matlock, Pavel Seifter, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
Friday 27 November
* Refugees, Security and the Right to Protection, Prof. Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, 6pm, free, Birkbeck College, School of Law. Info: k.scott@bbk.ac.uk
* Extreme forms of Violence against Women: Femicide in Mexico and Central America, seminar, 3-6pm, Woburn House Conference Centre, WC1. Info: CAWN
* The Culture of International Relations, Professor Richard Ned Lebow, 6.30pm, free, Birkbeck College, Malet Street. Info: Birkbeck
* The Red Ape Debate - The Future for the Orang-utan, 7pm, £12/£10, Royal Geographical Society. Info: 01986 874 422/ crichardson@worldlandtrust.org
* Peace & Security in Africa - China-Africa Cooperation, Niu Qiang, Henry Smith, Dr Chris Alden, Dr. Charles Alao, 4pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: AAC@soas.ac.uk
Saturday 28 November
* The Chomsky Effect,Robert F. Barsky, 5-6.30pm, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1. Info: 7837 4473/ Housmans
* The Great Global Warm-Up, workshops, discussion and debate in the run-up to UN climate talks in Copenhagen, with Ruth Davis, David Fleming, James Garvey, Clive George, Victoria Johnson, Rupert Read, Martin Reynolds, Chris Rootes, Harry Shutt, Oliver Tickell, Gerry Woolf; plus activists from Camp for Climate Action, Workers' Climate Action, Plane Stupid, the Campaign against Climate Change and others, 11am-5.30pm, free, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* A Georgian Spring, Chris Boot discusses a travel journal featuring the work of 10 photographers in Georgia in Spring 2009. 7pm, £8/£5, HOST Gallery, 1–5 Honduras Stree, EC1. Info: rsvp@hostgallery.co.uk
Exhibitions
Ghost Forest, installation designed to raise public awareness of the connections between deforestation and climate change, Trafalgar Square, until November 22. Part of Arts for COP 15
+ Ghost Forest takes root in Trafalgar Square
* Human Rights in the Frame: Collateral Damage, Jenny Matthews' launches her exhibition of photographs on human rights and development organisations, 7pm, The Human Rights Action Centre, EC2, until 11 December. Info: alison.willis@amnesty.org.uk
* Heroes of Our Time: Rwandan Courage & Survival, a history of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that focuses on four survivors, until 18 December, London School of Economics, Houghton Street. Info: arts@lse.ac.uk/ 7955 604/ LSE/ 7955 6043.
+ Tuesday 1 December, debate on media and identity examining reporting of the Rwandan genocide
* Carnaval del Pueblo: the Story, exhibition about the growth of London's Latin American community, Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, SE17, until 28 May. Info: 7525 2332
* The Wall; Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition of illustrations by Czech illustrator Peter Sís, who provides a personal account of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and shows what life was like for a child who proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer and believed whatever he was told to believe, free, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6, until 29 November, part of the Velvet ®evolution season (see: Film). Info: 8237 1111
* Travels in No-man’s-land, Kurt Kaindl's photographs along the former east/west border, from Lübeck to Triest, documenting the remnants of the Iron Curtain in the lives of Europeans today, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 December. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Europe — Work in Progress, photograph exploring the changes taking place in Europe 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 November. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Wildlife Photographer of the Year, £9/ £4.50/ £24 (up to two adults and three children), Natural History Museum, SW7, until 11 April. Info: Wildphoto
* Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, new project that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, free, Science Museum
* Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Lefteris Pitarakis the work of three photojournalists shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards, free, 9am-8pm Monday-Friday, Amnesty Human Rights Centre. Info: Events
* Eco Home, examines current ideas around 'eco-living', Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2, until February. Info: 7739 9893/ Museum
* Open See, Jim Goldberg's photographs of those who travel from war-torn countries to make new lives in Europe: they tell their own stories by writing on and defacing his photographs of them, free, Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1, until 17 January. Info: 0845 262 1618
* Striking Women: Voices Of South Asian Workers From Grunwick and Gate Gourmet, free, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 1 March. Info: 7320 2222
* Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970s Britain, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 31 March. Info: 7320 2222
* NS Harsha: Nations. Chen Chieh-jen: Factory, exhibition , installation and film, until 21 November, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616
* Nostalgia, a three-part audio-visual installation by Omar Fast, adapted from a true story, that tells the story of a migrant from a dystopian Britain, seeking asylum in Africa, using the conventions of 1970s Sci-Fi films, South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, SE5, until 6 December. Info: South London Gallery
* Growing Up Black, photographs of Hackney's West Indian community in the 1950s and '60s donated by Deniis Morris, Hackney Museum, Hackney technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, E8, until 23 January. Info: 8356 3500
* Chasing Mirrors, exhibition of new work exploring alternative forms of self-representation and portraiture by contemporary artist Faisal Abdu-Allah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective, a group of young people from Arabic-speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and Ealing, free, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 10 January. Info: 7306 005
* North-West Passage: An Actic Obsession, British Arctic exploration but with a glance at the potential impact of climate change, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE10. Info: 8858 4422, until 4 January
* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
* 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
* London, Sugar & Slavery gallery, permanent gallery at the Museum in Docklands, with new display that gives a snapshot of those who received compensation when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, No 1 Warehouse, E14. Info: 0870 444 3852/ 0870 444 3851/ info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ London's dirtiest secret
9-22 November
* GFest - gayWise LGBT Arts Festival. Info:festival/ Wise Thoughts/ 8889 9555
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Saturday 21 November
* Against Sharia & religious laws and for an end to violence against women & children: Rally to mark Universal Children's Day and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Johann Hari, Roy Brown, AC Grayling, Maryam Namazie, Terri Sanderson, Peter Tatchell, 12pm-2pm, Hyde Park, North Carriage Drive, between Stanhope Place Gate and Albion Gate. Info: onelawforall.org.uk / 07719166731
* The Peoples Charter convention, 10am-3pm, £5, Camden Centre, Bidborough street, WC1. Info: Charter
Monday 23 November
* Living in a Digital World, Dame Wendy Hall, 7.30pm, Science Museum. Info: Science Museum
* Climate change and international development: the Conservative perspective, Andrew Mitchell MP, 10:30am, Overseas Development Institute, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.u/ ODI
* The Myth of Natural Balance, Slavoj Žižek criticises the ideology that has grown up around ecology and argues that the notion that that we shouldn’t mess around with nature has become the new opium of the masses, £10/£9/£8, 6.45pm, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: ICA
* Governance: How can the UK help African reformers?, Richard Dowden, 12.15pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: 7898 4370/ cas@soas.ac.uk
* The road to recovery: Business as usual or a green new deal?, Andrew Simms, Paul Golby, 7pm, £11.50, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1. Info: 7520 1490/ Place
* Mediating Change Project: Climate change and culture discussion , Mike Hulme, 6:30-8pm, The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, NW1. Info: 0754079406
* Global Perspectives on the Current Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on developing countries, Professor Frances Stewart, 6:15pm, UCL, Gower Street, WC1. Info: 7679 7396
* Climb the Green Ladder: how sustainability can make you and your company more successful, Ed Gillespie, Jo Confino, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
Tuesday 24 November
* Deal or No Deal? – The Inside Track on Copenhagen, Jenny Willott MP, Justin Rowlatt, David Nussbaum, Daleep Mukarji, Apa Sherpa and Dawa Sherpa, 6-7.30pm, Houses of Parliament, SW1
* Launch of Climate Frontline: African Communities Adapting to Survive, Sigurd Jorde, Saleemul Huq, Christie Peacock, Roger Williams MP, The Astor Suite, 1 Parliament Street, 4-6pm. Info: BIRCHJ@parliament.uk
* Climate Change and Security, Shiloh Fetzek, 2–3.30pm, House of Commons, SW1. Info: catherine.martin@carbonneutral.com/ 7833 6035
* Hot Off The Press? The Media and Climate Change, discussion, free, 7pm, The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. Info: Booking
* International Action: Too Little, Too Late?, Professor Bob Spicer, Steve Drummond, Andy Kerr and Dr Matt Prescott, 7pm, free, Huxley Building, Imperial College, 180 Queen’s Gate, SW7
* The G20: perils and opportunities for developing countries, Ngaire Woods, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300 / meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* West Africa's International Drugs Trade, Dr Stephen Ellis, Dr Kwesi Aning, Alexandre Schmidt, Alan Campbell MP, 6pm, Houses of Parliament. Info: ras_research@soas.ac.uk/ 02030738337
* David Ben Gurion, 1948 and the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Prof. Ilan Pappe, 5pm, SOAS, Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise, WC1
* Digital natives – a lost tribe?, Sonia Livingstone and David Buckingham, 6.30pm, free, New Academic Building, London School of Economics, Alsdwych. Info: polis@lse.ac.uk
* Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity, Robert Albritton, 6.30, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: a.colas@bbk.ac.uk
* Theory into Practice, Charles Correa on low-income housing and urban planning in India, 6.30pm, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, W1. Info: 7307 3813
* Londongrad: From Russia with cash, Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley on their investigation into the lifestyles of the Russian oligarchs who built vast personal fortunes in Russia and moved to the UK following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* Christopher Anderson on Capitolio, the photographer talks about his new book on Caracas, 7pm, £5/£8, HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, EC1. Info: 7253 2770
* New Directions in US Foreign Policy, Don Abelson, TInderjeet Parmar, Mark Ledwidge, Giles Scott-Smith, Tim Lynch, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Senate House, WC1. Info: 7862 8870/ americas@sas.ac.uk
* Refugee citizens go to the polls: democratic reform in Western Sahara's liberation movement, Alice Wilson, 6-7.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Jihad: the trail of Political Islam, Professor Gilles Kepel, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* Black Theatre - Never Been So Good?, Roy Williams, 7pm, £5, hosted by Talawa Theatre Company, £5, 53-55 East Road, N1. Info: Talk
Wednesday 25 November
* In conversation with Shami Chakrabarti, 7pm, free, Museum of London, London Wall, EC2. Info: 7001 9844
* Woman-killing in Mexico and Central America, 4–6pm, Parliamentary meeting, House of Commons, SW1. Info: CAWN
* Masdar City to One Brighton, David Nelson, Peter Clegg and Pooran Desai on how design can make property development more sustainable, 6.30pm, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, W1. Info: 7307 3813
* Reflections: Allan Little, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* Parading the 'Crème de la Crème' for the national good: beauty contests, feminine spectacle and new masculinities in Barbados 1959-1966, Rochelle Rowe 5pm, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1. Info: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk
* Our Changing Perceptions of National Security, Sir Richard Dearlove, 6pm, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2. Info: Event
* The Transnational Flows of the Black Atlantic Post-9/11: hip-hop as the soundtrack to US imperialism, Omar El-Khairy, 5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: pr1@soas.ac.uk
* The American Empire in Light of the Global Crisis, Profs Alex Callinicos and Leo Panitch, 6:30pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: pr1@soas.ac.uk
* First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Double Death of Neoliberalism and the Idea of Communism, Slavoj Zizek, 1pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* The future of human rights: Torture, boredom, and doubt at the United Nations, Toby Kelly, 3pm, SOAS, Russell Square, WC1. Info: mm101@soas.ac.uk/ mail es7@soas.ac.uk, es7@soas.ac.uk>
* Long Live the Yugosphere, Tim Judah, 6pm, LSE, Houghton Street, WC1
Thursday 26 November
* 'War on Terror' launch, Professors Conor Gearty and Joanna Bourke launch the latest publication from the Oxford Amnesty Lecture Series, 7pm, free, Human Rights Action Centre. Info: Amnesty events
* The implications of climate change for sustainable development, and the prospects for progress at Copenhagen and beyond, Dr. Ashok Khosla, House of Commons, 2–3.30pm. Info: catherine.martin@carbonneutral.com/ 7833 6035
* Killer's Paradise: Women Victims of Violence in Guatemala, film screening, followed by Q&A Bolivar Hall, W1. Info: CAWN
* Uncharted territory: land, conflict and humanitarian action, Dr. Sara Pantuliano, Dr. Liz Alden Wily, Paul Harvey, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* Points-Based System: Can it really make labour migration work for Britain?, Professor Eleonore Kofman, Jeremy Oppenheim, Keith Vaz MP, Garden Court Chambers, 7pm (after JCWI agm at 6pm), 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2. Info: JCWI
* Black Victorians, Caroline Bressey, 5-6pm, free, Museum of London. Info: 7001 9844
* Bretton Woods Project winter social, 5.30pm onwards, The Reliance (upstairs) 336 Old Street, EC1. Info: A Pint
* After FOCAC IV: China and Africa - Emerging patterns, Dr. Julia Strauss, Dr Chris Alden, Prof. Stephen Chan, 6pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Who Ended the Cold War?, Andrei Grachev, Mary Kaldor, Jack Matlock, Pavel Seifter, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
Friday 27 November
* Refugees, Security and the Right to Protection, Prof. Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, 6pm, free, Birkbeck College, School of Law. Info: k.scott@bbk.ac.uk
* Extreme forms of Violence against Women: Femicide in Mexico and Central America, seminar, 3-6pm, Woburn House Conference Centre, WC1. Info: CAWN
* The Culture of International Relations, Professor Richard Ned Lebow, 6.30pm, free, Birkbeck College, Malet Street. Info: Birkbeck
* The Red Ape Debate - The Future for the Orang-utan, 7pm, £12/£10, Royal Geographical Society. Info: 01986 874 422/ crichardson@worldlandtrust.org
* Peace & Security in Africa - China-Africa Cooperation, Niu Qiang, Henry Smith, Dr Chris Alden, Dr. Charles Alao, 4pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: AAC@soas.ac.uk
Saturday 28 November
* The Chomsky Effect,Robert F. Barsky, 5-6.30pm, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1. Info: 7837 4473/ Housmans
* The Great Global Warm-Up, workshops, discussion and debate in the run-up to UN climate talks in Copenhagen, with Ruth Davis, David Fleming, James Garvey, Clive George, Victoria Johnson, Rupert Read, Martin Reynolds, Chris Rootes, Harry Shutt, Oliver Tickell, Gerry Woolf; plus activists from Camp for Climate Action, Workers' Climate Action, Plane Stupid, the Campaign against Climate Change and others, 11am-5.30pm, free, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* A Georgian Spring, Chris Boot discusses a travel journal featuring the work of 10 photographers in Georgia in Spring 2009. 7pm, £8/£5, HOST Gallery, 1–5 Honduras Stree, EC1. Info: rsvp@hostgallery.co.uk
Exhibitions
Ghost Forest, installation designed to raise public awareness of the connections between deforestation and climate change, Trafalgar Square, until November 22. Part of Arts for COP 15
+ Ghost Forest takes root in Trafalgar Square
* Human Rights in the Frame: Collateral Damage, Jenny Matthews' launches her exhibition of photographs on human rights and development organisations, 7pm, The Human Rights Action Centre, EC2, until 11 December. Info: alison.willis@amnesty.org.uk
* Heroes of Our Time: Rwandan Courage & Survival, a history of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that focuses on four survivors, until 18 December, London School of Economics, Houghton Street. Info: arts@lse.ac.uk/ 7955 604/ LSE/ 7955 6043.
+ Tuesday 1 December, debate on media and identity examining reporting of the Rwandan genocide
* Carnaval del Pueblo: the Story, exhibition about the growth of London's Latin American community, Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, SE17, until 28 May. Info: 7525 2332
* The Wall; Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition of illustrations by Czech illustrator Peter Sís, who provides a personal account of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and shows what life was like for a child who proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer and believed whatever he was told to believe, free, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6, until 29 November, part of the Velvet ®evolution season (see: Film). Info: 8237 1111
* Travels in No-man’s-land, Kurt Kaindl's photographs along the former east/west border, from Lübeck to Triest, documenting the remnants of the Iron Curtain in the lives of Europeans today, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 December. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Europe — Work in Progress, photograph exploring the changes taking place in Europe 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 November. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Wildlife Photographer of the Year, £9/ £4.50/ £24 (up to two adults and three children), Natural History Museum, SW7, until 11 April. Info: Wildphoto
* Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, new project that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, free, Science Museum
* Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Lefteris Pitarakis the work of three photojournalists shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards, free, 9am-8pm Monday-Friday, Amnesty Human Rights Centre. Info: Events
* Eco Home, examines current ideas around 'eco-living', Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2, until February. Info: 7739 9893/ Museum
* Open See, Jim Goldberg's photographs of those who travel from war-torn countries to make new lives in Europe: they tell their own stories by writing on and defacing his photographs of them, free, Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1, until 17 January. Info: 0845 262 1618
* Striking Women: Voices Of South Asian Workers From Grunwick and Gate Gourmet, free, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 1 March. Info: 7320 2222
* Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970s Britain, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 31 March. Info: 7320 2222
* NS Harsha: Nations. Chen Chieh-jen: Factory, exhibition , installation and film, until 21 November, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616
* Nostalgia, a three-part audio-visual installation by Omar Fast, adapted from a true story, that tells the story of a migrant from a dystopian Britain, seeking asylum in Africa, using the conventions of 1970s Sci-Fi films, South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, SE5, until 6 December. Info: South London Gallery
* Growing Up Black, photographs of Hackney's West Indian community in the 1950s and '60s donated by Deniis Morris, Hackney Museum, Hackney technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, E8, until 23 January. Info: 8356 3500
* Chasing Mirrors, exhibition of new work exploring alternative forms of self-representation and portraiture by contemporary artist Faisal Abdu-Allah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective, a group of young people from Arabic-speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and Ealing, free, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 10 January. Info: 7306 005
* North-West Passage: An Actic Obsession, British Arctic exploration but with a glance at the potential impact of climate change, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE10. Info: 8858 4422, until 4 January
* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
* 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
* London, Sugar & Slavery gallery, permanent gallery at the Museum in Docklands, with new display that gives a snapshot of those who received compensation when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, No 1 Warehouse, E14. Info: 0870 444 3852/ 0870 444 3851/ info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ London's dirtiest secret
9-22 November
* GFest - gayWise LGBT Arts Festival. Info:festival/ Wise Thoughts/ 8889 9555
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