Dear all,
Please find below information on an event on 21st October at UCL, on the road to COP21.
“Gender, climate change and urbanisation: Revisiting the links"
There is a growing body of work exploring the relationships between gender and climate change, gender and urbanisation or indeed the link between urbanisation and climate change. However, the intersection of the three elements - or the gendered nature of climate change in urban areas - remains little explored.
What does bringing the three areas of focus together offer to our understandings of urbanisation, to the politics of climate change or indeed to gender equality? How does this help refine or boost current calls for a reorientation of climate change activism towards climate justice? What are the consequences of revisiting this link for strategic and just interventions in the context of the urban Anthropocene?
Ahead of COP21 in Paris, the event will broach this increasingly urgent matter through the projection of a short film, followed by a panel debate. The panel will bring together Claudy Vouhé (Francophone network Genre en Action), Julian Walker (Development Planning Unit, UCL), Virginie Le Masson (Officer Overseas Development Institute/CDKN) and will be chaired by by Adriana Allen (Development Planning Unit, UCL).
The event is organised by Barbara Lipietz and Caren Levy (Development Planning Unit, UCL) and supported by the Institut Français du Royaume Uni. It is part of a DPU-Genre en Action collaboration.
Date: 21st October 2015
Time: 6-7.30pm
Location: UCL, Roberts Building, GO8 - Davies Lecture Theatre, Torrington Place, London WC1 E7JE
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