Wednesday 13 February *
Congo Dreams: Hopes and prospects for the future, Kassim Kayira, Ben Shepherd and others discuss the implications of recent developments and the prospects for the current peace process, £15 with 17% of ticket sales going to Congo Connect, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1. Info: 7242 8032/
Frontline/
mail rsvp@royalafricansociety.org *
African Struggles Today, Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig examine the forces of social change challenging the inequalities of globalisation and the NGOs reinforcing the status quo, 7pm, £3 redeemable against purchase, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1. Info: 7837 4473/
Housmans *
It’s not oil gone, Ann Muggeridge delivers, 5.30pm, Imperial College, South Kensington campus, SW7. Info: 7589 5111
Thursday 14 February *
I Dream of Congo, multi-media exhibition of images, words and music created by international photographers, writers, artists, and women and children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, organised by Congo Connect, in support of Women for Women International and V-Day's work in DRC. Info:
supportuk@womenforwomen.org *
Bahrain revolution, UK’s stance: Positive media and negative politics, Ala’a Shehabi, Farida Ghulam, John Lubbock, Mike Diboll, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info:
events@frontlineclub.com/ 7479 8940
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21st Century Inc.: Making the corporation work for us, Colin Mayer, 1pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: 7451 6868/
lectures@rsa.org.uk *
Pathways to 2050: Three possible UK energy strategies, Christopher Watson, Christine Brown, David Elliott, Ian Crossland, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, WC1. Info: 7405/ 6661/
office@britishpugwash.org *
Transformation Is Possible: Moving Feminist Economics into Policies and Institutions, Caren Grown, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7405 7686
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Live from Downing Street: The inside story of power, politics and the media, Nick Robinson, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7405 7686
Friday 15 February *
When should LGBT people be offered Asylum in the UK?, panel including Erin Powerand Paul Dillane, 6.30pm, UCL, Gower Street, WC1. Info: 0203 1083991/
s.bharadva@ucl.ac.uk *
Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: What International Human Rights Law Says, Navi Pillay, 6-7.30pm, free, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info:
Meeting *
Indians and Britain, Kate Smith, Florian Stadtler and Susheila Nasta, 6.45-8pm, £4/£3, British Library, Euston Road, NW1
Saturday 16 February *
Women of Zimbabwe Arise's 10th anniversary rally, 1-2pm, Zimbabwe Embassy, The Strand, WC2. Info:
maggie.towse@amnesty.org.uk Monday 18 February *
Chance for Peace in the Second Decade, with Paul Rogers, 6.45-8.45pm, £3/£2, Friends of Le Monde, The Gallery, 70/77 Cowcross Street, EC1. Info:
Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique UK *
Media Representation and the Global Imagination, Lindsey Hilsum, Shani Orgad, Saskia Sassen, Laurie Taylor, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7405 7686
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American Counterinsurgency Strategy: Lessons from History, Max Boot, Toby Dodge, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7405 7686
Tuesday 19 February *
Girls, Education and Afghanistan, Zarghuna Kargar, 6.45-8pm, Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, W1. Info: 7307 5454/
enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk *
The Invention of the Land of Israel, book launch with Shlomo Sand, Shlomo Sand, Donald Sassoon and Geoffrey Bindman, 7pm, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info:
events@frontlineclub.com/ 7479 8940
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Horizontal inequalities as a cause of conflict: findings and policy conclusions, Frances Stewart, Armin Langer, Rosemary Thorpe, Christopher Cramer, Joanna MacRae, Alina Rocha Menocal, 12:30-2pm,
Overseas Development Instsitute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/
p.events@odi.org.uk/
ODI *
Victor Hugo and the Politics of Les Misérables, George Paizis, 6.30 pm, £2 redeemable against any book purchase on the night, Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1. Info:
events@bookmarks.uk.com/ 7637 1848
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Liberty and Security in the World Today: why we are all neo-democrats and what we should do about it, Conor Gearty, Devika Hovell, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Thornhaugh Street, WC2
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Off the edge of history: the world in the 21st century, Lord Giddens, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7405 7686
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Postcolonial African Migration, Marie Rodet, 1pm, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: 7405 7686
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Rethinking Development: China’s Development ‘Model’, Jennifer Hsu, 5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
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Shatter Zones and Lines of Flight: How Philippine History Shapes the Global Market for Caring Labour, Deirdre MacKay, 5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
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Iran's Nuclear Programme: A Surge into Modernity, David Patrikarakos, 5.45pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Wednesday 20 February *
Improving communication between aid agencies and crisis-affected people, Anita Shah, Carole Chapelier, Richard Cobb, Mark Harvey, Yussuf Osman, Sharon Reade, 11:30am-1.30pm, free, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300
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The Trouble with Censorship, Mark Stephens and Helen Lewis, 6.45pm, £12/£10/£8/£5, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info;
ICA *
The Invention of the Land of Israel, Shlomo Sand, 7pm, School of orfiental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
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Reconfiguration of Britain's Far Right, Gerry Gable, 6:30pm, free, City University, Northampton Square. Info:
Meeting *
The future of British military engagement with the media, Lorna Ward, Vaughan Smith, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info:
events@frontlineclub.com/ 7479 8940
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Whose News is it Anyway? Translation and Language in the Media, Liliane Landor, Biljana Scott, 6.30pm, £5/£3, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1. Info: 7324 2570/
info@freewordonline.com Exhibitions *
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? *
No Permanent Address, film made by Mark Boulos of his weeks living with members of the New People's Army in The Philippines, plus installation, Lisson Gallery, 52054 Bell Street, NW1 until 9 March. Info:
Gallery *
Aboudia: Quitta Le Pouvouir, paintings by Ivory Coast artist that include some inspired by political violence, Jack Bell Gallery, 13 Mason's Yard, St James's, SW1, until 23 February. Info;
gallery *
Echoes of a Vanished World: A Lifetime in Pictures, Robin Hanbury-Tenison's photos from his travels, especially among indigenous peoples, free, National Theatre, Southbank, SE1, until 10 March. Info:
National Theatre/ 7452 3000
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Take Another Look, exhibition about people of African origin who lived in London in the 18th and 19th centuries, free, Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, E14, until 4 August. Info: 0870 444 3857
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Peter Clarke: Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats, 80 works by "the quiet chronicler of South Africa", from apartheid to the 'new' South Africa, as a painter, printmaker, writer and poet, Rivington Place, EC2, until 27 March. Info:
Iniva *
Wildlife Photographer of the Year, £9, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7, until 3 March. Info: 7942 5725/
Museum *
British Wildlife Photography Awards 2011, free, Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, SE23, until 24 February
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Light From the Middle East: New Photography, 30 photographers, free, Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7, until 7 April. Info: 7942 2000
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Parallel Horizons, looks at multiple uses of bamboo across cultural and geographical boundaries, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10, until 28 February. Info: 8331 8260/
slg@gre.ac.uk/
Gallery +
Monday 18 February, talk by Benjamin Garcia Saxe on working with bamboo, featuring his bamboo building in Costa Rica, 5pm
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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, this year's prizewinners, who this year have a more international flavour, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 17 February. Info: 7306 0055/ Info: 7306 0055/
NPG +
Photo portraits hint at global stories *
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912, voted among 100 Great Black Britons, Coleridge-Taylor was a composer and conductor whose choral trilogy Hiawatha was popular through to the 1940s: this small display marks the centenary of his premature death at 37, free, small exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 17 March
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London, Sugar & Slavery , 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 *
atmosphere: exploring climate science, gallery, free, Science Museum. Info:
Museum *
Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
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Eco Zone Gallery, small gallery devoted to sustainable building products and materials, The Building Centre, Store Street, WC1. Info: 7692 4000/
reception@buildingcentre.co.uk/
Centre *
Future Relics, Bettina Schroeder's commentary on environmental issues and everyday objects, Vibe Gallery, Clements Road, SE16, until 12 February. Info: 7364 7917
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Women in Focus, 33 photographs by Dorothy Bohm, £7/£6, Museum of London, 150 London Wall, EC2, until 17 February. Info: 7814 5511/
Museum *
Parallel Horizons, looks at multiple uses of bamboo across cultural and geographical boundaries, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10, until 28 February. Info: 8331 8260/
slg@gre.ac.uk/
Gallery +
Monday 18 February, talk by Benjamin Garcia Saxe on working with bamboo, featuring his bamboo building in Costa Rica, 5pm
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