Open Meetings Programme
For a record of past meetings, please refer to the Archive. This gives speakers and topics.
Future Programme
The ICEA year ends on July 31st. The monthly programme of open meetings resumes in October.
Dates for which we have made provisional bookings at the Art Workers Guild are shown below. Speakers and topics are added when these are sufficiently confirmed to be announced, but should be regarded as provisional until the formal meeting notices giving full details are posted here and despatched to members and others on the mailing list.
Going forward we expect to provide a mix of Zoom and hybrid (face to face with a Zoom feed in addition) meetings. These will normally be on the third Wednesday of the month. We have planned bookings at the AWG monthly through to June 2025, dates will be finalised as they are agreed with our speakers.
In addition to the confirmed meetings and future dates listed below, in normal times there are also Members’ Events including the Annual General Meeting and Christmas social.
For dates and details please refer to the Members Events page
Meetings, Time and Place
Venue: Art Workers’ Guild (AWG), Gradidge Room and Zoom
The Gradidge Room is a small venue and our meetings are more akin to seminars than to lectures.
In-person participants: the venue is at 6 Queen Square, WC1N 3AT
Charges for in-person participants (including drinks/refreshments):
Members – £5; Non-members – £10; Students – £2.50
Members can meet from 6.00 pm, the talk runs from 6.30-8.00 followed by more drinks.
Intended dates for presentations for 2024-25 are given below. These dates may, exceptionally, be varied to accommodate a presenter’s other commitments. All meetings’ announcements should be regarded as provisional until the formal meeting notice is circulated up to one one month in advance of the meeting date. Information additional to what appears below may be added before that.
NEXT MEETING
Wednesday 13th November 18:00 for 18:30
Way forward for Water Management in England
by
Jonathan Fisher
Water bodies in England are in a dire state with impending water shortages and inadequate sewage treatment infrastructure resulting in unacceptable levels of abstraction, water pollution and discharges of raw sewage. Defra SoS (Steve Reid) has stated that “The government will carry out a full review to fundamentally transform how our entire water system works and clean up our rivers, lakes and seas for good”. Jonathan will set out the various causes of these problems, remedial solutions advocated, their complications and possible ways of overcoming them. He will then set out seven key measures that need to be included in a comprehensive programme for the way forward for improving the water environment in England.
Jonathan is a freelance environmental economist with more than 45 years experience of delivering practical applied economic analyses of environmental matters, including 25 years work on water and flood risk management. He was economics manager at the Environment Agency. Previously he was the UK Department of the Environment’s economic adviser on climate change, and an economic adviser at the Treasury. He has a PhD in environmental economics and a degree in economics.
Venue: Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT This talk will also be transmitted live via Zoom
Individuals will need to register with Zoom. To join us please click on the following meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85818525942?pwd=uWdnbP2RfhaWioBtuadlTXv6cJDNe2.1
Meeting ID: 858 1852 5942 Passcode: 893845
The site will open half an hour before the talk and it would be greatly appreciated if members and guests use a recognisable user name when taking part in our online meetings.
FUTURE DATES
We expect to continue providing a mixture of Zoom and hybrid meetings. (Hybrid meetings combine face to face and Zoom). They will normally be on the third Wednesday of the month. We have planned bookings at the AWG monthly through to June 2025 (December excepted); dates will be finalised as they are agreed with our speakers. Provisional dates for 2024-25 are as follows:-
| ICEA calendar year 2025 | |
| WedesdayJanuary 15th 2025 speaker | Julian Jacobs |
| Topic | Water Regulation: an International Perspective |
| Later dates February: Wednesday 19th | |
| March: Wednesday 19h | |
| April: Wednesday 16th | |
| May: Wednesday 21st | |
| June: Wednesday 18th |
Meeting Charges
A small charge is made to cover the costs of drinks and other refreshments, which are served before and after the meeting. Charges (including drinks/refreshments): Members – £5; Non-members – £10; Students – £2.50.
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