ATS Events
- Summer Reception at the House of Lords, Monday 14th June.
- Presentation of Educational Awards at the Oriental Club, Tuesday 16th November.
An Invitation to attend the Book Launch Party of
"The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics
Of Our Most Valuable Asset"
by Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee
At the Office of Educational Affairs, 28 Princes Gate London
6.30 pm on Friday 20th August 2010
The Office of Educational Affairs, the Royal Thai Embassy, cordially invites you to attend
the Book Launch Party of "The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics Of Our Most Valuable Asset"
by Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee . An ATS award winner in 2007/2008 and now a noted Thai academic and current
lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of York, Dr. Powdthavee has published widely in international
peer-reviewed journals and has his research mentioned in many international newspapers and magazines on the topics
of economics of happiness, health and human behaviours.
RSVP: np517@york.ac.uk
' Turning Human-Elephant Conflict into Human-Elephant Co-existence in West Thailand '
A presentation by Belinda Stewart-Cox, director and co-founder of the Elephant Conservation Network, Kanchanaburi
September...
Date, Time and venue to be confirmed
This promises to be a fascinating talk and insight into elephant conservation in Thailand. Elephants are the national, royal, and religious icons of Thailand, and yet their survival in the wild is threatened by the legitimate and illegitimate demands of an ever-increasing human population. As a result, fewer than 3,000 wild elephants are thought to survive nationwide and human-elephant conflicts are increasing all over the country. In her talk, Belinda will tell us about her work as the founding director of the Elephant Conservation Network (a small non-government organization located in Kanchanaburi, West Thailand) and how the ECN works in partnership with local people and other NGOs, as well as local and national government agencies, to tackle the dual challenges of elephant conservation and human-elephant conflict in and around the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary. Salakpra is part of Thailand's largest and most important conservation area, the Western Forest Conservation Complex, which support's the country's largest surviving population of wild elephants. Belinda is an experienced conservation project manager and field researcher with special interests in human-wildlife conflict, ecotourism, community-based conservation, and local NGO development, arising from 24-years of research, training, project planning and implementation in Asia (primarily Thailand), and Kenya.
'London to Bangkok - a trans-Siberian rail journey'
A talk by Khunying Narisa Chakrabhongse following King Chulalongkorn's travel route
At the Samagi Samagom Rooms, Royal Thai Embassy, London
Tickets at £12 for members of ATS and their guests
6.30 pm on Wednesday, 27th October 2010
In 1911, Prince Chakrabongse and his morganatic, Russian wife Katya, Madame la Duchesse de Pisnoulok, travelled from Bangkok to Saigon by boat before embarking on a train journey through Vietnam and China to Russia. His ultimate aim was to attend the coronation of King George V in London.
Almost one hundred years later in 2009, his granddaughter Narisa set off in the opposite direction from London to Bangkok by rail, accompanied by two intrepid women friends, both called Hilary. Long addicted to train journeys after a childhood in which she regularly travelled to London from her home in Cornwall on the Great Western Railway, films such as Doctor Zhivago were also an inspiration. In addition, as an environmentalist, Narisa wanted to test the viability of travelling to Thailand in a way that produced less carbon than flying.
Join Narisa on her trip on 10 trains and as many countries, accompanied by her intrepid friends, Hilary David and Hilary Thomson.