IFLAS director Jem Bendell will give his Inaugural Professorial Lecture at Keswick's Words by the Water literary festival on March 14, 2014.
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| Prof Jem Bendell, director of IFLAS |
Prof Bendell has been invited to deliver the prestigious annual Derwentwater
Lecture, organised in association with the Keswick Fair World Alliance, and supported by Impact International and the Cumberland Building Society.
The Lecture
How do we know what to do in a world we perceive
as unfair, difficult and threatened, yet simultaneously beautiful, inspiring
and unfolding?
What can we learn from old and new, local and
global, the personal and professional?
What if we are guided by love, not fear?
What if we are more honest with ourselves
and each other about what’s not working, and what we really wish for?
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| Derwentwater forms the magnificent backdrop to the lecture. Photo: Stuart Holmes |
A Professor of Sustainability Leadership, and
Founding Director of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), Jem Bendell has worked on business and sustainable development
for almost 20 years, in business, government and civil society, as well as
academia.
In 2012, the World Economic Forum appointed him a Young Global
Leader, in recognition of his work on cross-sector alliances for sustainable
development.
In his academic work he traversed political science, sociology,
development studies and management studies, as he saw how ‘disciplines’ restrict
creativity and relevance in a world that urgently needs breakthrough ideas for
our common good.
In his Inaugural Lecture, Professor Bendell will share
insights from this intellectual journey on the causes and solutions to social
and environmental degradation.
He will present insights from his forthcoming
book, Healing Capitalism.
In particular he
will describe how his worldwide, multi-sectoral and trans-disciplinary
exploration of the causes and solutions to unsustainability led him to focus on
innovations in ways of exchanging and sharing without money.
A consultant to
the United Nations since 1996, in 2013 he co-organised the first UN conference
on complementary currencies.
He is now a leading commentator on that topic, discussing
it on Al Jazeera, for the Guardian, and with his TEDx
the most-watched online talk on complementary currencies.
He
is developing a research and educational programme on these topics at the
institute he founded at the University of Cumbria in the UK. www.cumbria.ac.uk/iflas
The Evening
- 4pm - Arrivals
- 4.15pm - 5.15pm: Inaugural Professorial and Derwentwater Lecture. On the theme “Exploring Sustainability” (introduction by the University and organisers of the Derwentwater Lecture)
- 5.30pm - 7pm: Drinks reception, the Circle Gallery, with the University of Cumbria Honorary Fellows as guests of honour (by invitation only)
Tickets and Travel
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The Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. Photo: Steve Barber
The lecture takes place at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, at 4pm on Friday, March 14, 2014.
A small number of tickets are available for staff and
partners of the University. Minibuses will be travelling to and from Ambleside
on the day. For information, email iflas@cumbria.ac.uk
Other festival talks on the day can be attended at 11am,
12.45pm, 2.30pm, 5.30pm and 8pm.
More information on buying a ticket for those
talks or the Inaugural Lecture will be available on the festival website.
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