{"title": "Beyond crisis: Reimagining “education and international development” for climate and debt justice", "start": "2026-10-27T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "UCL Institute of Education", "address": "Bedford Way 20, WC1H 0AL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=_oivH5ipW0yTySEKEdmlwotGuC0bejhHrB1upr8utzJUMTczSVU5NjQ4Vjk1VkIzMlI5R08wTDI1QS4u", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/education"], "description": "This is the first seminar in the “Contemporary Global Challenges in Education and Justice” series, held in a hybrid format at the Centre for Education and International Development. It is organised by Dr Laila Kadiwal at UCL Institute of Education and chaired by Professor Elaine Chase. Speakers Tess Woolfenden of Debt Justice and Asad Rehman of Friends of the Earth will discuss why debt is a climate justice issue, the current debt crisis, and how climate justice is inseparable from economic, social and racial justice. It is free with essential pre-booking and is open to researchers, policy makers, teachers, students, development actors and the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-crisis-reimagining-education-and-international-develo-39953/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2026/oct/beyond-crisis-reimagining-education-and-international-development-climate-and-debt-justice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8762a4bca1276b7c96239c777e9ecd6e555da9dc18fcf86892c9382930e96be9-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "UCL Institute of Education", "address": "Bedford Way 20, WC1H 0AL London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "'No Non-Radical Futures Available: Winning for the Climate, Winning for Workers' - London conference", "start": "2026-10-31T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T16:30:00Z", "place": "Crowndale Centre", "address": "218 Eversholt Street, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://cnduk.org/events/no-non-radical-futures-available-winning-for-the-climate-winning-for-workers-london-conference", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate"], "description": "A one-day trade union conference on climate action organised by Campaign Against Climate Change, with guest speakers including CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt. 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The collective, founded by David Birkin and Max Houghton in 2019 and based at University of the Arts London, rethinks the legal concept of habeas corpus through the visual arts, considering the body as a site of both injury and resistance. Through talks, performances, workshops and screenings, the programme explores sites of justice, censorship, proscription, abolition, occupation, displacement and gendered violence, bringing together artists, academics, writers and performers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collective-in-residence-36642/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c9a21f4cfe7413e088b04b292fdd5e77fbe6d0ec863e52284c8a87e0d2eb5e8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "EarthScale Summit", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate", "society/innovation"], "description": "The EarthScale Summit is an afternoon conference on accelerating climate innovation across the UK. 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Its author Julio César Linares, a community organizer and economic anthropologist from the territories known today as Guatemala who lives in Berlin, presents an anarchist theory of money. Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, he argues for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a step towards cancelling debt and a worldwide basic income. The discussion explores forms of direct action people can take from London to dismantle the US dollar empire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/decolonizing-money-the-promise-of-abolishing-the-us-dollar-b-70038/", "official_url": "https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/116/decolonizing-money-book-launch-author-talk-and-discussion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35193264fbd80c4e4464c0f62a4a36cf1cbeb7df65e18b7d354e7b45866da3bb-2000.webp"}]}