Student Event: How to Impact?
Schedule
Wed Nov 13 2024 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Samfundet | Trondheim, ST
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The Gemini Center for Global Impact is hosting a student event at Samfundet focused on how to engage yourself with activities in the Global South.Link to register: https://forms.office.com/e/dxtD8vPQUG
PROGRAM
12:00 - 12:15
Welcoming everyone, introduction to documentary and program
12:15 - 13:30
Climate change! Who cares about those most affected?
We will be showing a documentary featuring Malawian mother Anita Chitaya and her friend Esther as they travel to the Western world to bear witness to the effects of climate change on their daily lives.
Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.
This documentary, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.
Trailer 'The Ants & The Grasshopper': https://vimeo.com/569924110
13:30 - 14:00
Panel debate
After the film, there will be a panel debate addressing the relevant topics highlighted in the documentary, including climate change, gender, inequality, the rural - urban divide, the disparity between rich and poor, etc.
Moderator: Rolee Aranya
Panelists:
• Atle Harby, SINTEF
• Marit Ursin, NTNU
• Vikas Thakur, Dean in Agder and Professor at NTNU
• Others tba
14:15 - 15:30
Global impact collaboration for students – examples and opportunities
Presentations by master students who have conducted fieldwork in the Global South:
• Hope in the Hustle: Urban Journeys in the Global South by Jennifer Qiu and Karin Raniay, Masters program in Urban Ecological Planning
• Intersectional Housing Struggles and the Right to the City: Migrant Women’s Experiences in Afful Nkwanta by Jacqueline Banahene, Master in Globalisation and Sustainable Development, Geography
• Hydropower in Nepal by master students with fieldwork in Nepal
Presentation and stands by student groups working on Global South topics:
• GridVille NTNU, Lisa Birkelund
• Konfiansa, Håkon Noren
• ISFIT
• UN students
15:30 - 16:00
Discussion and summary
Announcement of logo competition winner
From 16:00
Pizza
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Where is it happening?
Samfundet, Elgeseter gate 1, 7030 Trondheim, Norge,Trondheim, NorwayEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
