06/03/2012, 3:45pm
Melanie Challenger discusses 'On Extinction' at the Ways with Word Festival, Keswick
The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industries and agriculture is leading to Earth's sixth great extinction of species. At the same time, human societies themselves are in a cultural extinction crisis, with experts anticipating that of the world's nearly seven thousand languages only ten percent may survive into the next century. Melanie Challenger explores how we might live to resist these extinctions and why such disappearances must be of concern.
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
09/03/2012, 8pm
Julian Baggini discusses 'The Ego Trick' at the Bath Literature Festival
Are you still the person who lived 15, 10 or 5 years ago? Can you therefore plan for your retirement if the you of 30 years is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? With his usual wit, infectious curiosity and bracing skepticism, Julian Baggini sets out to answer these fundamental and unsettling questions.
Guildhall, Bath
www.bathlitfest.org.uk
10/03/2012, 5:15pm
Noo Saro-Wiwa discusses 'Looking for Transwonderland' at the Ways with Words Festival, Keswick
Noo Saro-Wiwa is the daughter of the famous Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. She tells about his life, revisits her home and tries to understand her heritage and home country through the eyes of an outsider. Despite the tragedies and injustice surrounding her family story, she tells it with wit, humour and great insight.
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
10/03/2012, 1pm
Melanie Challenger discusses 'On Extinction' at the Bath Literature Festival
The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles is leading to the Earth's sixth great extinction of species. At the same time, human societies themselves are in a cultural extinction crisis, with experts anticipating that of the world's nearly seven thousand languages as few as ten percent may survive into the next century. Melanie Challenger explores how we might live to resist these extinctions and why such disappearances are so alarming.
Guildhall, Bath
www.bathlitfest.org.uk
11/03/2012, 5:30pm
Melanie Challenger discusses on Extinction at the Aye Write! Festival, Glasgow
In Cornwall, hiking around the half-buried ruins of an old tin mine, Melanie Challenger started to think about the things that have disappeared from our world. From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, her thought-provoking - and ultimately hopeful - book On Extinction is a passionate exploration of these disappearances and why they should concern us.
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, G3 7DN
www.ayewrite.com
17/03/2012, 11am
Noo Saro-Wiwa discusses 'Looking for Transwonderland' at the Aye Write Festival, Glasgow
In Looking for Transwonderland Noo Saro-Wiwa rediscovers and come to terms with Nigeria, the country her father, murdered activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, loved. She found the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despaired at the corruption and inefficiency she encountered. But she also discovered that it was far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, and was seduced by its rainforest, its ancient palaces and monuments and, most engaging of all, its people.
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, G3 7DN
www.ayewrite.com
