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SUMMARY:2024 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Nnimmo Bassey\, executive director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation and a global environmental activist\, will receive the 2024 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan on Tuesday\, September 10th at 4:30pm in the Robertson Auditorium at the Ross School of Business. \nNnimmo Bassey is an architect\, director of the Nigeria-based ecological think-tank\, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)\, and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International\, a network resisting the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the Global South. He chaired Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012)\, was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award\, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize\,” and received the Rafto Human Rights Prize in 2012. Bassey has received honorary doctorate degrees from University of York (UK) in 2019 and from York University (Canada) in 2023. Bassey’s books include To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and The Climate Crisis in Africa and Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological War. His poetry collections include: We Thought It Was Oil But It Was Blood (1998)\, I Will Not Dance to Your Beat (2010)\, and I See the Invisible (2024). \nThe Wallenberg Medal and Lecture ceremony is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. \nPlease direct any inquiries about the event and requests for event accommodations to:\nwallenberglecture@umich.edu or 734-936-3973.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/2024-wallenberg-medal-and-lecture/
LOCATION:Ross School of Business\, Robertson Auditorium\, 701 Tappan Avenue\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, 48109\, United States
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