Meetings will be held from noon until 1:30 in 609 Social Sciences unless otherwise noted

Friday, Sept. 10: 

• Introduction to the group and semester planning

Friday, Sept. 24:

• Heidi Zimmerman's piece on Michael Pollan and ethical citizenship

Thursday, Sept. 30:

• Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives one day symposium: "Plant foods for human health"

Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct. 5 & 6:

• Gustavus Adolphus Nobel Conference 46: "Making Food Good" (Saint Peter, MN)

Wednesday, Oct. 6:

• Juliet Schor's IAS talk on her book Plentitude. 125 Nolte from 4-5:30

Friday, Oct. 8:

• Watch webcast highlights of the Nobel Lectures

Friday, Oct. 29:

• Two pieces from members in an upcoming issue of Radical History Review (Deutsch and food and gender, Slocum/Shannon/Cadieux/Beckman on Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution)

Friday, Nov. 5:

• Workshop time for our ongoing projects

Friday, Dec. 3:

• Talk about Stephen Carpenter's piece on justifications for family farming (Link)

Sunday, Dec. 5:

• Book party/potluck at Tracey Deutsch's house, 5 pm.

Spring topics: Aaron Bobrow-Strain's work, Field trip to a Native American farm in Hugo, Guillermo Navarez' work on coffee farms in Nicaragua, public health and food environments