We're collecting thoughts about meetings this fall. Post ideas & thoughts in the comments...
 


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Jerry

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:34:19

Thoughts from Valentine:

- revisit Heidi's paper

- party for Tracey and Rachel's books (anyone else have a book they'd like to celebrate?)(possibly linked up with an hour planning session)

- Oct 5/6 Gustavus Adolphus Nobel Conference - "Making Food Good" (I notice that there are "Delegation Tickets" which are $40 for a block of 10 tickets; do we want to organize a delegation?
http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/
"In asking the question “What makes food good?” ethical, agroecological, physiological, economic, and aesthetic conceptions of “good” intertwine, clash, and vie for attention. Few issues seem to demand consideration so frequently as does the need for “good food.”

Nobel Conference® 46 will consider a whole panoply of food issues—from human health to the health of planetary ecosystems; from nutraceuticals to culturally appropriate foods; from community gardening to fuel crops, to genetic modification, and to food security."

Also, they're quite good about video streaming -- and I think IAS has run live videocasts in the past.

- and then once we have the IAS March 3/4 'How we talk about feeding the world' workshop speakers confirmed, we might want to think about including some of these speakers' work in our lineup, and to potentially engage them in conversation anticipating the workshop

- and several of us are quite excited about bringing Nick Cullather in to talk about his new book ("Parable of Seeds: The United States and the Transformation of Rural Asia")

 

Jerry Shannon

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:20:54

I've got a piece by Cummins et al. on place and health research that might be interesting to discuss, perhaps along with another piece on obesity and environment or food deserts.

I also met with Chery Smith in Food Science & Nutrition over the summer and she's done some interesting work on dietary habits of low-income and ethnic minority communities. She also has an anthropology background. We could invite her and read 1-2 of her articles.

 

Rachel Slocum

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:09:30

I think Aaron Bobrow-Strain would be interested in us reading something possibly from his book and talking with the group via skype.

 

Valentine

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:33:15

At this point, the Friday 12-2 slot appears to work best for the most people -- although we have talked about alternating on some weeks. I'm starting a schedule listing every other Friday here, and filling in some of the weeks we know there are other events (potentially not on Fridays) in which we'd be interested, so we have a sense of when it might make sense to alternate.

Sep 10 (might want to have book party instead?)
Sep 24
(Sep 30 = HFHL conference on plants as food -- there might be an interesting visitor or local speaker http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/healthyfoodsummit2010.aspx)
Oct 8 (Oct 5&6 = G.A. Making Food Good http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/schedule.php)

Oct 22
Nov 5
Nov 19
Dec 3
Dec 17 (might want to have alt. event instead; this is late)

 

Jerry

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:02:42

I also know in the past we've started the second week of the semester, since the first week is usually pretty crazy. Would we want to do that again? That would lead to the following dates:

Sept. 17:
(Sept. 30 HFHL conference that V. mentioned)
Oct. 1:
Oct. 15:
Oct. 29:
Nov. 12:
(3 week break for Thanksgiving)
Dec. 3:
Dec. 17: (though I'd probably say this is too late in the semester/close to break)

 

Jerry

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:51:26

As Valentine pointed out, if we do an event with the first meeting, starting off the first week might make sense.

 

Matthew Beckman

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:43:54

I am happy about the meeting time as it's right in between classes so I think I can make it.

Here's an idea. We have suggested that the systemic problems in the "food system" need to be addressed. We might enjoy getting some insight from a political insider about how the forces resist such change. I know Dave Fredrickson who is Amy Klobuchar's farm wonk pretty well. He is a retired farmer and former president of the Natinoal Farmer's Union. When I spoke with him about the Agri-Foods reading group over a year ago he was interested in what we were doing. Just a thought.

 

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