Summer 2010

Meetings will be from 10-11:30 in Heller 1229 unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday, May 19:
  • Viewing and discussion of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Thursday, June 10
  • Finish last two episodes of Food Revolution and sketch out a paper outline for our group review
Wednesday, June 30:
  • Discussion of Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in a Gourmet World by Johnston and Baumann
Wednesday, July 14:
  • Smith, E. (2009). Imaginaries of Development: The Rockefeller Foundation and Rice Research. Science as Culture 18(4): 461-482.
  • Klobpenburg, J. (2010). Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty. Journal of Agrarian Change 10(3): 367-388.
Wednesday, July 28:
  • Heidi Zimmerman's paper on citizenship and Victory Gardens
Wednesday, August 11:
  • Last chapter of Jeffrey Pilcher's upcoming book, Planet Taco