Date: June 9, 2011
Venue: Multi Purpose Hall (MPH), University of Nairobi (Main Campus).
Time: 2-5pm
Guest Speaker: Hassan Omar Hassan, Commissioner KNCHR
Panelist: Elike Segbor UNCHR Rep. Nairobi and Dr. Adams Oloo Chair Dept of Political Affairs & Public Administration U.o.N.
Moderator: John Sibi Okumu
Date: May 28, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Library
Time: 10 am-1pm
Entry: Free
Amka Literature Forum is a space for upcoming, unpublished as well as established women writers and literary critics to share stories, poetry ideas and ideals with the aim of enhancing women’s creativity.
Interested participants may send their short stories and poems to amkaspace@yahoo.com
Social Media for Conservation: Connecting and Collaborating with People
Dr. Paula Kahumbu
Executive Director, WildlifeDirect
Executive Director, Kenya Land Conservation Trust
Chair, Friends of Nairobi National Park
Renowned conservationist and 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Dr. Paula Kahumbu will talk about building a global wildlife conservation community that connects conservationists and their supporters through blogs and direct funding.
Time:
Refreshments 6:15 pm
Doors open 7:00 pm
Louis Leakey Auditorium
Nairobi National Museum
Donation: Non members Ksh 500, Members Ksh 400, Students Ksh 200
Proceeds to fund the National Museums of Kenya
KMS Offices: 0724 255299 or 2339158
info@kenyamuseumsociety.org
www.kenyamuseumsociety.org
When? Thursday 12th May 2011, 7pm (for 7:30) to 9:00pm.
Where? Austin Theater, Braeburn School, Gitanga road, Lavington
This week’s theme: The fringe benefits of failure and a new definition of success. The following TED talks will be screened:
At her Harvard commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” Perhaps the most famous contemporary fiction writer in the world, with her Harry Potter series of children’s books — a chronicle of the adventures of an adolescent wizard of the same name. The fourth volume of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was the fastest-selling book in history. Since completing the series, Rowling has put her fortune toward philanthropic projects dealing with poverty, multiple sclerosis and other issues through her own Volant Charitable Trust.
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. Through his witty and literate books — and his new School of Life — Alain de Botton helps others find fulfillment in the everyday. We need to intelligently reassess our systems of governance, societal structure, education, and cultural narratives, and creatively think about the roles of morality, technology, human behaviour and collaborative civil society in our world. Join us for a light-hearted intellectual exploration.
Directions to Braeburn: http://www.braeburn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=695
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TEDx Cinema – a Gathering for Curious Minds
Free, Saturday 7th May 2011, 10:30am (sharp!) to 12noon, Cinema 6, Westgate Mall, Nairobi
This week’s theme is a behind-the-scenes look at the complex economics and drivers of radical mercenary groups & global crime networks. Insights into the parallel world that exists right in front of us, with their own law, ethics and fully fledged economy. This week’s videos feature:
Once it was easy to know where our money was going. Now we live under a system Loretta Napoleoni has dubbed “rogue economics,” where the blurry histories of the products we consume and the cash we invest make us complicit in financing barely legal credit schemes — and even crime, if it’s the slavery producing the beans for our lattes or the guts of our mobile phones. The reach of the newly global market, as Napoleoni argues in her new book, Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality, connects us all to the dark side, regardless of our intentions to be responsible — and, she says, our deep connection to fishy credit and unregulated finance has laid the groundwork for the current economic crisis.
Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.
For more information: Farida_sher@yahoo.co.uk; irfan@whiterose.co.ke; salim_keshavjee@yahoo.com;
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Date: May 5, 2011
Venue: iHub
Location: 4th floor of the Bishop Magua Centre off Ngong Road (directly opposite the Uchumi Hyper)
Entry: Prior Registration required
Time: 6-7.30pm
More information: iHub Blog
Fireside Chats are source for practical, substantive information on entrepreneurship, business mentoring and leadership. This month iHub continues with their sessions which focus on young entrepreneurs and start-ups. iHub will be hosting Joe Mucheru from Google.
Tuesday 3rd May 2011 @ 2.30pm -Kuona Trust Gallery
As a way to create a platform for dialogue and to get response on the ongoing exhibition, this activity will bring together the curator and the participating artists one last time before the exhibition is uninstalled on the 8th May 2011.
The artists – Omosh Kindeh, Dennis Muraguri, Cyrus Kabiru, Anthony Wanjau, Kepha Mosoti, Meshack Oiro, David Mwaniki, Michael Mbai & Gakunju Kaigwa shall be present to discuss their practice – work, challenges & frustrations in a bid to find out why sculpting has lost its prominence and answer questions asked by the audience which will include artists, students, writers or just the general public.
This will be a platform to articulate the work and assess the exhibition by getting input from the audience.
Likoni Close, Likoni Lane off Dennis Pritt Road | Hurlingham | P.O. Box 4802 | 00506 Nairobi | Kenya
Phone | +254.20.2405960 | +254.721.262326 | +254.733.742752 | info @ kuonatrust.org | www.kuonatrust.org
Theme: The unconscious mind and the power of being wrong. The miracle of the human mind is not to see the world as it is, but to see the world as it isn’t.
Featuring actor and comedian John Cleese on the unconscious mind, and ‘wrongologist’ Kathryn Schulz on the value of being wrong.
Great videos, nutritious brain food. Tell your friends.
At this TEDxCinema event WR show two videos from the world renowned TED conferecnces followed by a short discussion. Ideas to change the world.
See http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/825 for details
where: Westgate Mall, Cinema 1
when: Saturday 23rd April, 1030am (sharp) to 12 noon
The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) in Collaboration with the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) invites you to a seminar on
International Justice for Atrocity in Africa? The International Criminal Court, African Governments and Sustainable Peace.
When: Friday, 29 April 2011
Time: 12 Noon – 2.00PM
Where: The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Presenter: Dr Phil Clark – Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Chair: Dr Gabriella Lynch – Senior Lecturer in Africa and the Politics of Development, University of Leeds
As a global judicial institution, the International Criminal Court has to date focused investigations and prosecutions solely in Africa. While this inevitably stirs charges
of ‘neo-colonialism’ and unwarranted foreign intervention in African conflicts, there are more fundamental questions about the ICC’s involvement on the continent.
This lecture explores three key issues. First, should the ICC ever have become involved in the African cases where it is currently operating? Second, what deals did
the ICC strike with domestic governments – in particular, promises to shield certain political elites from prosecution – in exchange for state referrals of cases to the Court? Finally, what are the long-term impacts of the ICC’s operations in Africa, in terms of peace, stability, democratic governance and improving standards of domestic justice? This lecture will draw on five years of ground-level research into the ICC’s investigations in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Kenya, including more than 400 interviews with international and domestic political and judicial actors and communities affected by mass violence.
This seminar is free and open to all those interested in the topic
Date: April 30, 2011
Venue: WestGate Mall Nu Metro Cinema
Time: 9.30am-12 noon
Guest speaker: HE President Yoweri Museveni
Entry: Free
