MIT X TAU Series: The Great Green Wall screening and discussion

Thursday, March 04, 2021 at 12:00pm to 2:30pm

Virtual Event

The first webinar in an eleven-part series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa.

 

Screening :: The Great Green Wall: Noon–1:30PM  |  Link to film: http://bit.ly/GGWscreening

Please Note: Password for film screening is 9401

Zoom webinar :: 1:30PM–2:30PM  Register at http://bit.ly/MIT-TAU

The series launches March 4 at noon (ET) with a screening of the award-winning documentary film “The Great Green Wall" (GGW) followed by discussion and Q&A moderated by Claude Grunitzky (executive producer of the film). Speakers include two of film’s other executive producers, Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener and The Two Popes), and Alex Asen; director Jared P Scott; lead protagonist, the Malian singer Inna Modja; and the 29-year-old Gambian conservationist Kemo Fatty.

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Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), TRUE Africa University (TAU)

About the MIT X TAU webinar series: 

The Center for International Studies (CIS) has partnered with the newly launched TRUE Africa University (TAU) to host a webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Thursdays at noon EST, starting on March 4, TAU founder, MIT alumnus, and CIS research affiliate Claude Grunitzky, will interview the thinkers, shapers and doers who he sees as the inventors of the future of Africa. Each of the eleven webinars promises to be a genre-defining look into the opportunities and challenges facing the African continent and its people over the coming century. The CIS-TAU webinar series will be an opportunity for the MIT community and beyond to engage with luminaries such as Taiye Selasi, the Ghanaian-Nigerian author; Jeffrey Sachs, the American economist; and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, the Nigerian serial entrepreneur behind some of Africa’s most valuable startups.

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Event Type

Conferences/Seminars/Lectures

Events By Interest

Academic, General, Arts/Music/Film

Events By Audience

Public, MIT Community, Students, Faculty, Alumni, Staff

Events By School

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS)

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Starr Forum, Center for International Studies, CIS, MIT Security Studies Program, SSP, MISTI, starrforum, Africa

Website

https://cis.mit.edu/event-series/true...

Cost

free and open to the public

Department
Center for International Studies
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#MIT-TAU

Contact Email

english7@mit.edu

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