Society Beyond Borders - 8th September 2011
TEDxEastEnd will explore ideas and various perspectives on migration. We will look at the role innovation can have in addressing the challenges it presents, while also considering the opportunities and benefits that arise from migration. The event will bring together a wide variety of disciplines including journalism, comedy, policy, architecture, sociolinguistics and finance along with the voices of writers, activists, actors and scientists.
VIDEOS
Shizzio: There is no spoon: how to move beyond our own borders
Hailed as the Asian Eminem by East London Grime legend Lethal Bizzle, ...
Oliver Marlow: Space as conversation
Oliver Marlow is a multi-platform designer and co-founder of TILT. As Head ...
Menhaj Huda: Everywhere & Nowhere – in search of belonging
Menhaj Huda (born 1967, Bangladesh) is a British film director and producer ...
Mihir Bose: The story of my father, the story of myself
Mihir is an award winning journalist and author. He writes a weekly ...
Faisel Rahman: Why we need to revolutionise personal finance
Faisel Rahman has a background in international development, including Grameen Bank and ...
Bridget Anderson: Imagining a world without borders
Bridget Anderson is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre on Migration, Policy ...
Barbara Roche: The British story of migration
Barbara Roche is a former Government Minister and MP who was a ...
Danny Dorling: A World without border controls in a century
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of ...
Paul Kerswill: Who’s an Eastender now?
Paul Kerswill is a Sociolinguist and Dialectologist and committed to understanding how ...
Karl Sharro: Rediscovering the joy of humanity
Karl Sharro is an Architect, Writer and Commentator on the Middle East, ...
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Where & When
TEDxEastEnd will take place at the Human Rights Action Centre (17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA) and will run from 10am to 6pm.
