Hello Folks,
I just wanted to pass along this announcement for the upcoming food lecture series this fall. It will be a really fun chance to hear from global and local leaders about food. Please feel free to pass this along to others.
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AU 10 Course (1or 3 credits, N/C)
ENVIR 450 E-FA Eating Your Environment (Combination public lecture series and course)
Lecture Series is on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm in 120 Kane Hall beginning October 5, 2010. The Program on the Environment will run a linked undergraduate course with the public lecture series, allowing students to discuss lecture topics in more detail with speakers. Beth Wheat, one of the founders of UW Farm, will teach the linked undergraduate course.
Course is on Mon and Wed mornings from 9:30-10:20am. All speakers will be attending the Wed class.
From the field to the kitchen, from Seattle to the plains of Africa, we will follow food production from the dawn of the human species through to the present. This series will bring public intellectuals and practitioners to campus to share their thoughts and experiences with the UW and Seattle community. What they say will be new, interesting, and occasionally controversial, as we collectively explore the most personal and public of resources: food.
Confirmed (Invitations have been extended to additional speakers – there will be a total of 8 throughout the quarter)
Meet Will Allen - former professional basketball player, former corporate marketing executive, a MacArthur Fellow (the "genius" award), and an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations through his organization, Growing Power, which he founded in Milwaukee, WI.
Ejeta, winner of the 2009 World Food Prize, grew up in a one-room thatched hut with a mud floor in a rural village in Ethiopia. Trained in plant breeding and genetics, his development of sorghum-hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed (the greatest biological impediment to food production in Africa) have enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Claude Fischler, a nutritional sociologist at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris focuses on perception of food borne risk, "scares" and crises, and on comparative approaches of attitudes toward food and health across cultures in relation to prevalence of obesity.
"Protecting the future of food, one seed at a time" is Cary Fowler's objective. He is Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, founded by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and currently chairs the International Advisory Council of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The self-described Tennessee farm boy sees the vault as the fulfillment of a long fight to ensure that the world's food supply has the diversity needed to stand against the threats of disease, climate change and famine.
Nabhan's year-long mission to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within 220 miles of his Arizona home redefines "eating close to home" as an act of deep cultural and environmental significance. Author of Coming Home to Eat and founder of Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance (RAFT), Nabhan is an Arab-American writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist whose work has long been rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands region he affectionately calls "the stinkin' hot desert."
Author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and What to Eat, Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her research focuses on how science and society influence dietary advice and practice. She served as senior nutrition policy advisor in the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and was managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health.
