Lecture/briefing

Under present u.k immigration rules students are required to maintain a requisite amount of money in their personal account for the period of three months immediately preceding the making of an in-country application. The rules have well being interpreted by the courts :Some have described this new point system as harsh, amorphous and very demanding. In this roundtable, CRL x-rays basic denominators of the rules by bringing together leading experts in this field to throw light on denominators of this rule

A lecture arguing that Interdoc, PeaceNet and GreenNet created the Internet (not the US military). Learn about the pioneering role of the APC in forming a public, open, non-commercial global system. Thursday 29 October 2009 - 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm. Please register at http://www.city.ac.uk/whatson/2009/10_oct/291009_Peter_Willetts.html

Speakers Dennis Sammy, Nature Seekers, & Nienke van Geel, The Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust. Chaired by Nigel Winser. Human activities and climate change pose multiple threats to marine species. Hear about Earthwatch’s research in projects as wide ranging as Trinidad’s leatherback sea turtles and Hebridean whales and dolphins. Please see: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/events09/lecture09-marine Ticket only - free to students and current Earthwatch donors; otherwise a donation will be requested on the door.

Speakers: Dr. Richard Bodmer (Durrell Institute of Conservation & Ecology, and the Wildlife Conservation Society) & Dr. Kathleen Sullivan Sealey (University of Miami). Chaired by explorer, writer and TV presenter Dr. George McGavin. The very fact that the Amazon and the Caribbean are such attractive locations renders them all the more vulnerable to over-exploitation. Hear how Earthwatch scientists are addressing this issue in the Peruvian Amazon and on the coasts of the Bahamas. Website: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/events08/lecture09-americas/

Our forests, home to an extraordinary range of biodiversity, and arguably one of our greatest safeguards against climate change, continue to be depleted at an alarming rate. How can we set about securing their future? Chaired by explorer Paul Rose, the speakers are Dr. Mika Peck of the University of Sussex (Climate Change, Canopies, and Wildlife in Ecuador), and Dr. Dan Bebber, Head of Climate Change Research, Earthwatch (The Footprint in the Forest). Website: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/events08/lecture09-forests/

Join New Internationalist magazine for a discussion of the opportunities the current financial crisis offers to build a fairer global economy. Speakers include: Susan George (Transnational Institute, Amsterdam); Walden Bello (Senior Analyst, Focus on the Global South); John Hilary (Director, War on Want) and Jeremy Corbyn MP. Start time: 7pm. Nearest tube: Old St/ Liverpool St. Places limited so please RSVP to book a seat.

In Europe and worldwide, political systems are facing a crisis of disaffection and disengagement. How we deal with this crisis will determine the fate of liberal democratic systems everywhere, and of the European Union in particular.

A Review of the Findings and Recommendations of the Recent Report by the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF
Co-sponsored by The Bretton Woods Project and the All Party Parliamentary Group for on Debt, Aid and Trade