The forum is taking place in support of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and will demonstrate how our community is contributing to meeting the challenges posed by climate change and ecological loss, decarbonisation and helping to generate creative engagements and solutions.
The College is hosting a COP26 Forum with events and activities for students, staff and the general public running from 1-12 November 2021. One of its initiatives is an interdisciplinary panel exploring issues of forced migration and environmental degradation in West Africa.
During this panel, the speakers will discuss the politics and representation of the current situation through their respective expertise in West African film, languages and the law. Clips from fiction and non-fiction films that focus on forced migration and the ensuing economic crisis will be presented for discussion. The panel will consider the intersection of aesthetics, human rights and politics in these examples and consider how they might be related to the frameworks offered by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The panel will feature the participation of Prof. James S. Williams (Professor of Modern French Literature and Film) and Dr. Irene Antonopoulos (Lecturer in Law). Dr. Antonopoulos will be discussing the legal framework around human rights, climate change and migration, and its limitations in protecting those who flee their homes due to the effects of climate change.
The panel will take place on 8 November 2021 at 4 pm GMT. You can register for free here.
