Dr Vandana Shiva
LIFT Lecture
19 May
Biodiversity, cultural diversity and celebration - intimate links and matters of survival.
Performance details’We have made celebration of diversity our mode of resistance’ - Dr Shiva, physicist, ecologist, bioactivist and author, founded Navdanya in 1982 to protect biodiversity and farmers’ rights against the threat posed by patenting of crop genes. A passionate believer in the need to engage a younger generation’s imaginations in building the future, Dr Shiva led a young people’s delegation to the Earth Summit in Johannesburg.
In the The Natural History Museum’s Central Hall, Dr Shiva will speak about her experience and the role of culture and artists in biodiversity conservation.
Presented by LIFT With support from the British Council, Counterpoint
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LIFT LECTURE SERIES 2003 – 2006
Imagining A Cultural Commons
Attempts to privatise resources previously held in common are threatening the very basis of survival across the world. Dr Shiva’s lecture will be the first in a series to explore the concept of a cultural commons å in which intercultural negotiation and collective imaginings might lead to new social agreements and routes to more humane forms of economic and social survival.
The series is guided by Justice Albie Sachs, a member of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, and David Bollier, co-founder of Public Knowledge, Washington DC.
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| 19 May | 7.30pm |
| TICKETS: | Admission is free although booking is necessary to reserve your place. |
| VENUE: | The Central Hall, The Natural History Museum, South Kensington |
