Bhutanese Election 2018 and The World of 2084

When:

November 22, 2018

Time:

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Category:

Lecture

Location:

Fraser (Law) Building, room 150

Details:

Current UVic Law PhD student - and native of Bhutan - Nima Dorji will discuss the results of Bhutan’s recent National Assembly election, only the third in the Kingdom’s history, in which the incumbent party was wiped from power and Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa will govern for the first time. 

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Michelle Fung will discuss her current artistic work that proposes a fictional geopolitical map of a bizarre future, populated with plastic-eating humans, flying elephants, and islands floating in the sky. As part of the presentation, she will also screen the Canadian debut of her moving image piece, Plastic, plastic, every where! (23 minutes, 2015-2018). Fung is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. www.michelleksfung.com

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Contact:

Jonathan Woods
commcapi@uvic.ca