22 November | 6-9 PM
Sustaining Human Values in a Globalized World
featuring a roundtable discussion hosted by the Paris based Charles-Léopold
Mayer Foundation
This event is an opportunity to engage in dialogue to address challenges we face in a globalized world. It is the concluding gathering of Building Bridges and Dialogue, a traveling tour undertaken by a group of 9 international community leaders, activists and scholars that has featured dynamic meetings with individuals and community organizations in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The project is led by Linda Pollack, based in Los Angeles and Arnuad Blin, based in Grenoble France.
Building Bridges and Dialogue is an initiative of the Charles-Léopold Mayer Foundation, a French-Swiss foundation based in Paris (http://www.fph.ch). It is part of the Foundation's effort to increase its ties with other groups and individuals in the United States.
Please join us for a reception at 6PM
Followed by a roundtable discussion at 7PM
Please RSVP by 10 AM Tuesday 22 November at 323.957.1777 x10
Biographies of Participants:
Delphine Astier - Program Officer at the Ecole de la Paix in Grenoble where she heads the Colombia Project (including the Peace Communities Initiative) and is also director of the Mediation and Solidarity Institute, which coordinates peace education projects in various countries.
Henri Bauer - Professor of Theology at the Catholic Institute of Paris and Fellow at the Center for Peace Research. He is also the Director of "Irénée," an online encyclopedia on peace.
Arnaud Blin - Senior fellow and Director of The Peace Indicators Project at the Ecole de la Paix in Grenoble; Author of a dozen books on international politics, including "A History of Terrorism" (University of California Press, forthcoming).
Larbi Bouguerra - a native of Tunisia, is a former professor at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Larbi has published a dozen books and over one hundred scientific articles, notably on physical chemistry, on water and on the environment.
Pinky Cupino - Executive Director, The Center for Positive Futures, providing educational opportunities to the economically disadvantaged, Manila, Philippines.
Caroline Mac Kenzie - Noted author and translator in the fields of history, culture and communication. Native of Great Britain now living in Provence.
Linda Pollack - Los Angeles based artist and organizer; working for the European Cultural Foundation (http://www.eurocult.org), she established their first arts mobility program to foster greater East / West European cooperation. In 2002 she founded "My Daily Constitution" (http://www.mydailyconstitution.org), which sets up interactive community dialogues about the U.S. Constitution in different cities, post 9/11.
Siddhartha - Founder of Fireflies, an inter-religious and secular center outside of Bangalore India which addresses environment sustainability, the resolution of communal violence and the deepening of democracy and civil society processes in India.
John Stewart - a native of South Africa, based in Zimbabwe, where
he is the director of the service organization NOVASC (Nonviolent Action
and Strategies for Social Change), which trains individuals and collective
organizations in skills of negotiation, mediation and leadership and
participates in peace-building and human rights organizations.
Other Upcoming LACE Events
8, 9, 10 December | 8 PM
Shrimps: HACK
$15 General, $10 LACE Members
Space is limited. Make your reservation now 323-957-1777 x10
15 December | 7 PM
Joe Sola and musician Michael Webster present a ragtime slapstick pizza-spinning
piano extravaganza. $5 admission; free for LACE members
16 December | 7 PM
Ultra-red, Slanguage, Jeff Cain, and Adam Overton
$5 General, Free to LACE Members
For more information about Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and its programs please visit http://www.artleak.org or call 323.957.1777.