Dr. Paul Behrens is a British author and academic in environmental change at Leiden University. His popular science book The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science describes humanity’s possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope. His research on food, energy and climate change has appeared in leading scientific journals and in 2018 he was awarded Leiden University’s Discoverer of the Year. His work on science communication has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American and the BBC.
Dr. Paul Behrens, Brian Eno, Zareen Mahmud Hosein, Mungi Ngomane, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kate Raworth, Alan N. Shapiro, and the TRQSE team.
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Our bodies, our houses, our land, our space - we humans don’t always like to share. Bette Adriaanse talks with artist Chelsea T. Hicks at the LongNow Foundation in San Francisco and with science ficion theorist Alan N. Shapiro at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. They are joined by virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami, who discuss property, sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other. Alternating between thinkers and doers whose approaches are helping to foster long term equality, this talk explores the choices that can be made to share time and resources with others in radical ways. The audiences were invited to a workshop after the talks, to further develop the ideas.
Chelsea T. Hicks is a writer and artist creating experimental work in her ancestral language of Wahzhazhe ie (Osage). Her collection of short stories is A Calm & Normal Heart.
Alan N. Shapiro is a science fiction theorist, teaching media theory and Future Design Research in universities across Europe. He is a public speaker on topics such as Technological Anarchism, hyperreality and AI, and the author or editor of four books: Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance, The Technological Herbarium, Software of the Future, and Transdisciplinary Design.
Aqui Thami is an Indigenous artist, activist, academic, and member of the Himalayan Janajati Thang-mi community.
Brian Eno is a musician, artist, writer, and co-founder of Earth Percent and The Long Now Foundation.
Margaret Levi is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory.
Heroines! Movement organised a conversation with poet and human rights activist Somaia Ramish about the situation of women in Afghanistan. Topics included the role of poetry in Afghan society, the power of taking symbolic actions. We also addressed the question of what we can do today to support women in Afghanistan as they are banned from education, speaking in public, making art, going outside without male company. Heroines! Movement will continue to explore this topic with Somaia, to find ways to support women in Afghanistan.
Somaia Ramish is a poet and human rights activist. She was born in 1986 in Herat, Afghanistan. During the 1st Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, her family fled to Tehran, Iran. After the first fall of the Taliban, she returned to Afghanistan. During the 20 years that followed, she worked hard to contribute to building a democratic and equal society. After the fall of the Taliban, she had to flee, and now lives in the Netherlands.
Somaia holds a master degree in Persian Literature. She is the founder of the movement House of Poetry in Exile BaamDaad, which calls on poets, writers, literary and cultural associations worldwide to support freedom of expression through art and poetry in Afghanistan. She regularly speaks, writes and organises to draw attention to the situation in Afghanistan, as a journalist, a poet, and a human rights activist. Find more information about Somaia on www.somaiaramish.nl
