CALL FOR PAPERS
Asylum and Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Performing Community, Crisis and Belonging
20-21 APRIL 2012, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
A two-day conference on performative responses to asylum and displacement. The vast populations of asylum seekers, refugees and other unauthorised or irregular migrants represent the vanguard of some of the most pressing challenges in a globalised world: conflict, crisis, poverty, security, human rights, environmental degradation and climate change. The conference will facilitate scholarly and creative exchange, investigating ways in which performance might witness, respond to and intervene in these challenges. Performance in this context may include professional and amateur theatre, community, youth and applied performance, film, protest and activism, site-specific work, and more broadly, the ‘enactment’ of citizenship and belonging.
Supported by the Department of Drama and Theatre, the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research (CITPR), and the Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor James Thompson (University of Manchester) and Assoc. Professor Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). Researchers, artists and other stakeholders are invited to submit 250-word abstracts for papers or practical presentations in response to any of the following topics:
* Applied, participatory and community performance
* Education and youth theatre
* Verbatim, testimonial or tribunal theatre
* Intercultural and multilingual performance
* Cinematic representations of asylum and displacement
* Protest and activism
* Site-specific performance
* Borders, border-crossings and territoriality
* Biopower, security, incarceration and human rights
* Sovereignty, citizenship and belonging
* Cosmopolitanism, globalisation and the ethics of hospitality
* Ecology, climate change and displacement
* Indigeneity and displacement
Details of additional conference guests and a publication will be announced in due course.
Please forward abstracts to the conference organiser by 31 August 2011: Dr Emma Cox, Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway: emma.cox@rhul.ac.uk
Conference registration deadline: 16 December 2011
Please send all replies to: emma.cox@rhul.ac.uk
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IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
Elemide oyebola adebola
Federal college of agriculture along obaile road Akure ondo state Nigeria
bolafebi @gmail.com +2348060860446
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Abstract
Climate change is projected to impinge on sustainable development of most developing countries of sub-Sahara Africa as it compounds the pressures on natural resources and the environment associated with rapid urbanization, industrialization, and economic development. The impact of climate change on agriculture is now real and without adequate adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change, food insecurity and loss of livelihood are likely to be exacerbated in sub-Sahara Africa. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in 2007, has clearly revealed that increases in the emission of green house gases (GHGs) have resulted in warming of the climate system by 0.74°C between 1906 and 2005. Such climatic changes are affecting agriculture through their direct and indirect effects on crops, soils, livestock and pests, and hence the global food security. It was also recognized that a reliable and timely early warning system of impending climatic risks could help determination of the potential food insecure areas and communities. Such a system could be based on using modern tools of information and space technologies and is especially critical for monitoring cyclones, floods, drought and the movements of insects and pathogens. This paper declared that a concerted effort, backed by policy makers at the national level would be the key to enhance food security as well as ensuring agricultural sustainability. Climate change is expected to have a high impact on food security. This may specifically affect African countries, since predictions indicate that the African climate may be subject to more extreme conditions, and food security is already at risk in large regions of Africa. New genotypes tolerant to multiple stresses: drought, floods, heat, salinity, pests and diseases, will help further increase food production. This would require substantial breeding and biotechnology (including genetically modified varieties) related efforts based on collection, characterization, conservation and utilization of new genetic resources that have not been studied and used.
Keywords: Impart, climate change, agriculture, sub-Sahara Africa