Event Archive

2012

October

• World Food Day

  16 October 2012, 22:10

  Uniting against hunger becomes real when state and civil society organizations and the private sector work in partnership at all levels to defeat hunger, extreme poverty and malnutrition.

• African Film Series 2012 - Skin

  16 October 2012, 18:00 - 21:00

  Skin is a British-South African 2008 biographical film about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era

• African Film Series 2012 - Neria

  09 October 2012, 18:00 - 21:00

  Neria (1993) - concerns the struggles of a woman in a rural town in Zimbabwe when she is widowed after her husband is killed in an accident

• GCID Lecture Series: "British Aid: a conscience soother or a moral and economic imperative?"

  09 October 2012, 17:30 - 19:00

  Part of the Glasgow Centre for International Development Lecture Series 2012/13

• CSID Nigeria Research Group

  05 October 2012, 12:30 - 14:00

  All are welcome to attend the next CSID Nigeria Research Group present findings of research into key issues facing Nigeria today.

• UN Association Aberdeen public meeting: 'The Challenges for Disarmament Today'

  04 October 2012, 19:30 - 23:00

  Des Browne, Lord Browne of Ladyton (Former Secretary of State for Defence 2006-8) will speak on ‘The challenges for disarmament today’. Followed by discussion and refreshments

• World Habitat Day

  03 October 2012, 22:08

  With the right actions and policies cities can successfully harness the potential of sustainable living, mitigate inequalities and disparities, and provide a home for people of all ages and cultures and economic means.

• OilScapes film showing: 'Oil Rocks - City Above the Sea'

  03 October 2012, 19:00 - 20:30

  OilScapes/Film delves into artistic responses to the ecology of oil, exploring the connections and disjunctions between (human) mobility and the (natural) environment as they are shaped by the global oil industry.

• African Film Series 2012 - Cry Freedom

  02 October 2012, 18:00 - 21:00

  Cry Freedom is a 1987 British drama film, set in the late 1970s, during the apartheid era of South Africa.

• GCID Lecture Series: "The Scottish Government and International Development"

  02 October 2012, 17:30 - 19:00

  Part of the Glasgow Centre for International Development Lecture Series 2012/13