Food Lecture Series: Eating Your Environment
October 5, 2010 - November 30th, 2010
Summary | Speakers | Course Information | Tickets
Summary
A College of the Environment (CoEnv) public seminar series and UW course.
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 communities. What they say will be new, interesting, and occasionally controversial, as we collectively explore the most personal and public of resources: food.
What is it?
A public lecture series on food and agriculture, sponsored by the UW’s CoEnv. David Battisti, Tamaki Endowed Chair in Atmospheric Sciences, and expert on the interaction between climate and food security, will host the series.
Who is it for?
The series serves both UW students (1or 3 credit course) and the public at no cost. The Program on the Environment (PoE) ran a linked course, allowing students to discuss lecture topics in more detail. Beth Wheat, one of the founders of U Farm, taught the course.
Who is involved?
UW Sponsors:
College of the Environment; The Graduate School’s Jessie and John Danz and Walker-Ames endowments; UW Alumni Association; Center for Global Studies, Jackson School of International Studies; College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Biology; Department of Geography; Department of Global Health; Global Business Center; Foster School of Business; School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; School of Forest Resources; Climate Impacts Group; School of Public Health; Department of Urban Design and Planning; Department of Epidemiology and the School of Medicine.
Community Sponsors:
Hotel Deca
The Sustainable Path Foundation
Promotional Partners:
The African Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest, Conservation International, KUOW, Readers to Eaters, Seattle Tilth, United Nations Association (Greater Seattle Chapter), University Book Store, The Washington Restaurant Association and the World Affairs Council of Seattle.
Speakers
Can Science and Technology Secure Global Food Resources?
Jessie and John Danz Endowed Lecture
Gebisa Ejeta
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 130
Winner of the 2009 World Food Prize, Ejeta, a native of Ethiopia, has dedicated his professional career to serving international agriculture. His development of crops resistant to drought have enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently holds a distinguished professorship in agronomy at Purdue.
The Battle Over Biofuels
Walker-Ames Endowed Lecture
Rosamond Naylor
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 130
An Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment, and Director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, Naylor focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production.
Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change
Marion Nestle
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 130
Author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Nestle was managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. She is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University.
Eating Fish to Save the Rainforest
Ray Hilborn
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 120
Recipient of the Volvo Environmental Prize in 2006, Hilborn is a Professor in the UW’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hilborn specializes in natural resource management, including impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.
Social Sciences, Nutrition, and the Meal
Walker-Ames Endowed Lecture
Claude Fischler
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 130
A nutritional sociologist, Fischler’s recent work focuses on comparative approaches of attitudes toward food and health across cultures in relation to prevalence of obesity. He is co-director of the Edgar Morin Centre in Paris, the French equivalent of America's National Institutes of Health, and is an adviser to the French Minister of Food and Agriculture
Feeling the Heat: Food & Famine in a Finite World
Cary Fowler
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 130
Fowler 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. He received the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Prize”) for “. . . working to save the world's genetic plant heritage."
Collaborative Conservation to Restore America's Wild Food Diversity
Gary Nabhan
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
6:30 PM, Kane 130
Dr. Gary Nabhan is regarded by Eco-Salon as one of the top ten voices in the world with regard to food policy and conservation. His twenty-some books include the earliest manifesto of the local food movement, Coming Home to Eat, and an award-winning survey of food biodiversty in America, Renewing America's Food Traditions. He has been honored with a Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, and from the Quivira Coalition. He is the only American writer to be included in Best American Nature Writing and in Best American Food Writing. He farms heritage fruit trees, heirloom chiles and other native crops in Patagonia, Arizona.
The Ecosystem as Measure: 50 Years to Perennial Sustainability
Wes Jackson
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
6:30 PM,
Kane 130
A prominent figure in the sustainable agriculture movement and a leading agrarian philosopher, Jackson believes, “When people and land and community are as one, we all prosper.” Born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas, he left academia in 1976 to found The Land Institute, a leader in researching and promoting agriculture that uses “nature as model.” The author of New Roots for Agriculture , Becoming Native to This Place, and Consulting the Genius of the Place (available September 2010), Jackson holds a PhD in Genetics from North Carolina State University, was a Pew Conservation Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood Award.
Course Information
AU 2010 Course (1 or 3 credits, N/C)
ENVIR 450 Eating Your Environment (Combination public lecture series and course)
a linked course with the lecture series, allowing students to discuss lecture topics in more detail with speakers and students. Beth Wheat, founder of the UW Farm, taught the linked course.
ENVIR 450E – Lecture only (1 credit)
ENVIR 450F & FA - Lecture and Course/Discussions (3 credits)
