From the editor

* Stage offerings include A Human Being Died That Night, in which psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela confronts an apartheid killer;  Race, by David Mamet, in which a white man is accused of rape by a black woman; and Chimerica, which looks at China-US relations through the prism of a photoghrapher who took a historic picture during the Tien An Men Square protests.

* Screen highlights include an Israeli film festival, the wide-ranging Open City Docs Festival and at the end of the month the East End Film Festival with over 80 features and 100 shorts. These festival feature some stunning films, though none  more extraordinary than The Act of Killing, a truly amazing, riveting, documentary in which a handful of the perpetrators of the Indonesian army's progrom against communists and alleged communists in the 1960s talk about and act out their murderous actions.

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17-23 June, Refugee Week. Info: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/In-Your-Area/London/London

Tuesday 18 June
*  Divided nations: why global governance is failing and what we can do about it?, Ian Goldin, Oxford Martin,  Andrew Rogerson, 4pm, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ p.events@odi.org.uk/ http://www.odi.org.uk
* What have Henry VIII and Elizabeth I got to do with 21st century development policy?, Simon Szreter, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, WC1. Info:  7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk
* Environment and Society Forum - Putting a Price on the Priceless: Valuing Nature?,  Roger Harrabin, Rosemary Hails, Tom Crompton, Sarah Whatmore, 6:45–9:30pm,  £4.89/£9.13, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: http://valuing-nature.eventbrite.com

Wednesday 19 June
* Buying the Change We Wish to See. The Stories & Politics of Ethical Shopping, with Kelsey Spitz, 7pm, LSE. Fairly Square, 51 Red Lion Street, WC1

*  A Campaign to Save the World's Refugees: World Refugee Year 1959-60, Peter Gatrell, 6.30-8pm, free, The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1. Info: 7636 7247/ wienerlibrary.co.uk/ info@wienerlibrary.co.uk/
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On
* Vagabond Witness: Victor Serge and the Politics of Hope, Paul Gordon and Lorna Scott Fox, 7pm, £7, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1. Info: 7269 9030/ books@lrbshop.co.uk
*  Climate Change and Cocktails, an evening of beautifully crafted cocktails, each one representing a chemical process that drives changing climate, with David Rowley, Pragna Kiri, Michael Ward, Ruth Ball, 7pm, £10 (two cocktails and a sweet surprise), Dana Centre, Wellcome Wolfson Building, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. Info:
www.danacentre.org.uk/ talk@danacentre.org.uk/ 7942 4040/ tickets@danacentre.org.uk
* When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence, Stephen King, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2* Superdiversity and the Unequal City, Claire Alexander, Rob Berkeley, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Cricket Match, young refugee cricketers v Free Foresters. Info: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/cricket_match

19-21 June
*  Boycotts - Past and Present, £9/£45.00/£30, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, WC1. Info: 7631 6000

Thursday 20 June
* Sri Lanka and the culture of impunity: human rights challenges in a post-war and post-conflict environment, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Asanga Welikala; Uvindu Kurukulasuriya, 6.30-8.00pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* “I’m not going back”, Refugee Week writing workshop, 2-5pm, free, The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1. Info: http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ info@wienerlibrary.co.uk/ http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On
* Tax, trade and transparency: the G8 agenda, Paul Collier, Matthew Taylor, and Andrew Mitchell MP, 6pm, free, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2, Info: 7451 6868/ lectures@rsa.org.uk
*  Localising aid – a challenge to the orthodoxy?, Jonathan Glennie, Tjip Walker, 4.30pm, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ p.events@odi.org.uk/ http://www.odi.org.uk

Friday 21 June
* Industrial Strength Britain: Politics for Sustainable Growth, Vince Cable MP, Chuka Umunna MP, Patrizio Bianchi, Juergen Maier, Frances O’Grady, 9:30am-midday, free, Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info:  http://industrialstrengthbritain.eventbrite.co.uk/ 7636 4030/ info@tuc.org.uk
*  Do accountability mechanisms deliver results?, Andy Featherstone, Paul Knox Clarke, Nick Guttmann, 2-4pm, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ p.events@odi.org.uk/ http://www.odi.org.uk

Saturday 22 June
* The Great Transition (to a sustainable society), a day of performance, film and discussion with Harry Giles, The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, Curious Directive, a lecture by Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation and a roundtable discussion, 10am, £10, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, E1. Info: 7650 2350/ http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/toynbeestudios/
* Turkey vs the UK: what’s the score on free expression?, Harun Tekin, Can Öz, Philip Oltermann, 4.30pm, Arcola Theatre, Dalston, N2. Info: censorship.org/category/events/

from 22 June
* Shubbak, biennial festival on Arab culture: talks, films, discussions, performance, art, music, until 6 July. Info: www.shubbak.co.uk

Monday 24 June
* State of ignorance: climate change and the biosphere, Colin Prentice, 6pm, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW7. Info: 7589 5111
* Free Speech, Idiocy and the Challenge of Citizenship, Peter Bradley, 1pm, Museum of London, London Wall, EC2. Info: 7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk

Tuesday June 25
* The Burning Question: Why are we failing to solve climate change?, Duncan Clark, 6.30-8.30pm, £6, HUB Islington, 5 Torrens Street, EC1
 
Wednesday 26 June
* From the digital divide to inclusive innovation: the case of digital money,  panel discussion mwith Mark Dodgson, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Gerry George, Tomasz Smilowicz, 1pm, free, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: 7451 6868/ lectures@rsa.org.uk
* Pollinators and Pesticides: Is there a Plan Bee?, Bill Turnbull, David Aston, Peter Campbell, Lynn Dicks, 6-8.30pm, £5, British Library, Euston Road, NW1. Info: 0843 2081144/ 01937 546060/ Customer-Services@bl.uk
* Iran after Ahmadinejad, Saeed Barzin, Mark Fitzpatrick, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8950/ events@frontlineclub.com
* Inventing the Internet, Louis Pouzin, 6pm, free, Institut francais, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7. Info: box.office@institutfrancais.org.uk/ 7871 3515
* An Uncertain Glory: the economic and social condition of modern India, Amartya Sen, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Luck, Leadership, and Legitimacy in Transitions to Democracy: Lessons from South Africa and the Middle East,  Ian Shapiro, 2-3.30, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2

* What's happening in Turkey? Reflections on an uprising, Derya Bayir;  Ayça Çubukçu, Zeynep Gambetti, Özlem Köksal, 6-8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2

Thursday 27 June 
* Luck, Leadership, and Legitimacy in Transitions to Democracy: Lessons from South Africa and the Middle East, Ian Shapiro, 2pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* The Privatisation of Law: Has a World Court finally been created by modern international arbitration?, Lord Goldsmith QC, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1. Info: 7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk
* Countryside in crisis?, 7-8.30pm, £10, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 7591 3100/ http://rgs-ibg-21cc-risk.eventbrite.co.uk/#

Exhibitions

* Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, "the first exhibition to explore international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries", British Library, Euston Road, NW1, until 17 September. Info: 0843 2081144/ Customer-Services@bl.uk
+ Hitler, Stalin, Mao - and health messages
+ 21 June, Justifying War, discussion, 6.30pm, £7.50/£5

* The art of influence: Asian propaganda, from 1900 to 1976, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1, until 1 September. Info: 7323 8000/ http://www.britishmuseum.org

* 100 Images of Migration, photographs of migration in and out of Britain, Hackney Museum, Ground Floor, Technology And Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, E8, until 31 August. Info:8356 3500/ info@hackney.gov.uk
+ Wow! How good is that!

* Archbishop Trevor Huddleston - Called to Justice and Freedom, photographic exhibition that recalls his role in fighting apartheid, St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Trafalgar Square, until 21 July. Info: 7766 1100/ BoxOffice@smitf.org

* Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013, shortlisted work including pictures on the Zambian space programme, the "war on terror", the sex industry in Europe and the destruction of working class life, Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1, until 30 June. Info: 7087 9300/:info@tpg.org.uk

* Different pasts, shared future, artists depictions of experiences of exile, W3 gallery, 185 High Street, W3, until 23 June. Info: 8993 6158/ http://www.w3gallery.org.uk

* The Space Between, exhibition in which women refugee academics from Iraq to Palestine, Burma to Burundi, share the storie of their journeys to the UK, The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, E1, until 22 June. Info: 7021 0881/ http://www.academic-refugees.org/ caradev@lsbu.ac.uk

* Birth of the World Without Borders, work by Lucy Namayanja, Uganda House, Trafalgar Square, WC2, unti;l 21 June. Info: 07730250513/ www.nammiart.com/
lucynmy@yahoo.com

* Colours of Change: Sri Lanka, photographs of changing times by Stephen Champion, Brunei gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC2, until 22 June. Info: 7898 4046

* Genesis, more than 200 photographs by Sebastião Salgado that draw together landscapes and wildlife images alongside those of human communities that continue to live in accordance with ancestral traditions, £10/ £5, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, until 8 September. Info: http://nhm.pmailuk.com/bnmailweb/ct?d=BisjjwAuAEn-----AABshA

* George Catlin: American Indian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, WC2, until 23 June. Info: 7306 0055

* Extinction: Not the End of the World? explores the crucial role extinction plays in the evolution of life, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, SW1. Info: Tickets
+ Are we in the midst of another Great Dying?

* Child Refugees: Five Portraits from the Kindertransport, takes a fresh look at this project to bring 10,000 children to Britain before the outbreak of the Second World War, free, The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1, until 2 October. Info: 7636 7247/ 7636 7247

from 19 June
* Keep Your Timber Limber, explores how artists since the 1940s have used drawing to address ideas ranging from the politics of gender and sexuality to feminist issues, war, censorship and race, ICA, The Mall, SW1, until 8 September. Info: http://www.ica.org.uk/ 7930 3647

from 20 June
* On Solid Ground, survivors of disasters, from floods to civil war, are the focus of seven renowned photographers, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, until 31 July. Info: 7766 1100/ BoxOffice@smitf.org

* Photo:The UK Gold, "From Zambia to Salisbury; from the Cayman Islands to Clapton, a huge, untold story unfurls which shakes our notions of nationhood and empire; a story seismic enough to shift perceptions of finance and flag forever" - East End Film Festival, from 25 June

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