UCL Political Science Events

POLICY AND PRACTICE - Addressing the Climate Change-Migration Nexus Through Policy and Art

Episode Summary

This seminar will reflect on how policy and art can work together to better understand human mobility in the context of climate change. It will discuss recent developments in the international governance of climate change related migration, and explore the role of art in raising awareness, creating a frame for dialogue and discussion, and activating change.

Episode Notes

Speakers

• Dina Ionesco is Manager in the Adaptation Division at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, focusing on human mobility and climate change. 
• Lena Dobrowolska and Teo Ormond-Skeaping are an artist collaboration from Poland and the UK whose work focuses on climate change. They won the 2019 Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development (COAL) Prize with their project ‘You never know, one day you too may become a refugee’.
• Chair: Dr Elisa Calliari, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Department of Political Science