Transatlantic Seminar

Stalin's Legacy: Environmental Disasters in Central Asia, 22 September 2011

Location: Thursday 22 September 2011, 5-630pm, Playfair Library Hall

Here's the official summary of the lecture:

"In this lecture, Struan Stevenson MEP discusses the ecological disasters of the Aral Sea, uranium tailings, nuclear testing in the Kazakh Polygon and desertification. He focuses also on the activities of the European Union and European Parliament in the region. The lecture will be followed by Q&A.

Struan Stevenson has represented Scotland in the European Parliament since 1999. In January 2010 he was appointed the Personal Representative on Ecology & the Environment to the Chairman in office of the OSCE.

This lecture is hosted by the University of Edinburgh Princess Dashkova Centre, the Europa Institute and the Politics and International Relations Transatlantic Seminar Series with the kind support of the Edinburgh Information Office of the European Parliament.

To attend, please register for free tickets at http://edinburgh-university.eventbrite.com/"

I would certainly recommend that you come along. The Transatlantic Seminars are a great place to learn about random, but intriguing things