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Mahbub ul Haq award recipient online lecture on climate change
Institute for Canadian Citizenship
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship and the Dominion Institute’s LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture featuring Canadian Inuit activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Siila Watt-Cloutier will be broadcast live online on IsumaTV on May 29, along with a roundtable discussion on May 30 from Iqaluit, Nunavut.
On Friday May 29 at 8pm EST, Siila Watt-Cloutier will present a unique perspective on global warming, human rights, issues of leadership and Arctic sovereignty. A roundtable discussion based on the lecture and involving the local community is scheduled for Saturday May 30 from 3pm to 5pm EST. Both events take place at Inukshuk High School in Iqaluit. The LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture will be streamed live on IsumaTV (http://www.isuma.tv). The lecture and roundtable discussion are free and open to the public.
“We are very pleased to be in partnership with the Institute for Canadian Citizenship with the LaFontaine Baldwin lecture,” said Zacharias Kunuk, President and Co-Founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions. “Siila Watt-Cloutier is a major figure in the Inuit community and this is an important discussion for Canada to hear about the North.”
“It’s exciting to be working with Isuma TV on this important event,” said Institute for Canadian Citizenship CEO Curtis Barlow. “We hope the web broadcast will make the lecture accessible to Canadians across the country and we hope this will enable Siila Watt-Cloutier’s message to be widely received.”
Special guests of the lecture and roundtable discussion include Institute for Canadian Citizenship founder and co-chair Adrienne Clarkson, Institute co-chair and founder of LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture series John Ralston Saul, filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and actor Martha Burns.
IsumaTV was launched in January 2008 by Igloolik Isuma Productions, independent producers of The Fast Runner Trilogy of award-winning Inuit-language films: Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, and Before Tomorrow; in association with Nunavut Independent TV Network (NITV), imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival, Vtape, Native Communications Society of the NWT and other non-profit agencies. With Siila's lecture May 29th, IsumaTV launches its new 2.0 version with improved networking and over 1000 films in 28 Indigenous languages.
About the Speaker
Siila Watt-Cloutier is an Officer of the Order of Canada, the first recipient of Canada's Northern Medal and was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She was elected President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (1995 – 1998), and served as the elected International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (2002 – 2006). Watt-Cloutier has worked on a range of social and environmental issues affecting Inuit, and has most recently focused on persistent organic pollutants and global climate change.
Established by John Ralston Saul in 2000, the LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture presented by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and the Dominion Institute, is one of the most prominent lecture series on issues concerning the public good in Canada. The Institute for Canadian Citizenship was founded in 2005 as a national, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting citizenship.
For more details on the LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture, please visit the Institute for Canadian Citizenship website: www.icc-icc.ca.
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