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21 Mag 2022 18:00

Conversation with Vanessa Nakate - Verso Incroci

Scuola Grande di San Rocco, San Polo, 3054, 30125 Venice

Vanessa Nakate, the well-known Ugandan climate justice activist working for the Fridays for Future and Rise Up movements, will be at Scuola Grande di San Rocco on Saturday 21 May 2022 at 18:00.

Ms Nakate will speak with Giuseppe Bolotta (Department of Asian and North African Studies) and students of Environmental Humanities.
Francesca Tarocco (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities - NICHE) and Flavio Gregori (Incroci di civiltà) will offer opening remarks.

Ms Nakate’s conversation will be based on the recent publication of the Italian version of her book A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis, by Feltrinelli (Aprite gli occhi. La mia lotta per dare una voce alla crisi climatica, 2022).

The event, which is held in collaboration with Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, is part of the programme Verso Incroci, a series of events that serve as a prelude to the themes and authors of Incroci di civiltà, the international literary festival organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 
 
The event will be in English.

Admission by reservation
An Ff2 mask will be required to enter the venue.

 

Vanessa Nakate is the founder of the Rise Up climate movement and the Vash Green Schools Project, which aims to install solar panels on all of Uganda’s 24,000 schools. She has spearheaded the Save Congo Rainforest campaign. The United Nations named her a Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals in 2020, and Time magazine named her to its Time100 Next list in 2021. Nakate and her work have been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, Yes!, Vox, Vogue, the Huffington Post, the International Women’s Forum, and the Global Landscapes Forum, and on globalcitizen.orggreenpeace.org, CNN, the BBC, PBS, and the United Nations media. She lives in Kampala, Uganda.

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L'evento si terrà in inglese

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Verso incroci, Incorci di Civiltà, THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities - NICHE, Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venezia

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