 April 16, 2015
University of Chicago
Live Broadcast (Milwaukee and Minneapolis)
Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of more than thirty documentaries and investigative reports filmed in America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Robin is the author of The World According to Monsanto, Our Daily Poison, Crops of the Future, and Eye Thieves, among other works. This event is presented as part of the Marianne Midwest Speaker Series
which provides a forum for distinguished speakers from France to engage live audiences in Chicago, and remote audiences across the Midwest via participatory webcasts. FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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April 16, 2014 | 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
University of Chicago
Free and open to the public
Registration Required
The upcoming 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris has prompted a variety of conversations on the need to change our production methods and consumption patters. Join the University of Chicago French Club and acclaimed French documentary-maker Marie-Monique Robin in an exceptional appearance in the United States as she discusses balancing economic success with a more ecologically conscious world in light of her most recent film, Sacred Growth, which will be shown at the United Nations on April 15th, 2015. Support for this program is provided by
the Marianne Midwest Speaker Series partners: Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, the France Chicago Center, the UChicago French Club, and the Alliance Français de Chicago. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION |
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