Culture and Environment in Belize. 26th Meeting of the United Kingdom-Belize Association (UKBA)
Welcome by Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, ILCS, and Barbara Bulmer Thomas, Chair of the Local Organising Committee.
Introduction to the UKBA by Dr Neil Stuart, President of the Association
The current economic, political and environmental situation in Belize
Her Excellency Therese Rath, Belize High Commissioner to the UK, and
Her Excellency Nicole Davison, British High Commissioner to Belize
Social and environmental studies in Belize
Dr David Gomez (University of London): 'The cart road issue in the Anglo-Guatemalan territorial dispute in the context of Central American history'
Professor Melissa Johnson (Southwestern University, TX): 'Lucy's Story: A Window into the Shore and the Bay in the late 1700s'
Professor Sarah Metcalfe and the ICARUS team: 'New approaches to understanding resilience to climate change in Belize: the ICARUS project
Introduction by Jacob Dykes (TENT) to the screening of an episode of 'Unknown Belize' (the screening was not recorded).
Event date: 13 October 2023