Did you know that Michael Pollan and Marion Nestle are both currently teaching at UC Berkeley? The school of public policy is hosting an eight week lecture series called Food Politics that is free to the public. Lectures are each Wednesday at 4 pm. More information and speaker list below.
Food Politics Spring 2006 lecture series, Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. Room 250, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley This is a free event. Public welcome.
Introduced by: Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University & Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley Author of Food Politics and What to Eat
February 8
Peter Menzel & Faith D’Aluisio
Photojournalist and Writer, co-authors of
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
February 15
Mark Ritchie
Pres., Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
Putting the Politics into Food Politics: Turning Your Good Ideas into
Public Policy
February 22
Ignacio Chapela
Assoc. Prof., ESPM, UC Berkeley
GMOs Among Us: The Biopolitics of Genetically Engineered Foods
March 1
Michele Simon
Adjunct Prof., University of Calif., Hastings
College of the Law, & Dir., Center for Informed Food Choices
How Big Food Resists Government Regulation: Corporate Spin in the Obesity
Debate
March 8
Paul Rozin
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Prof. of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania
Why, What, and When Do We Eat: Implications for Food Policy
March 15
Alice Waters
Restaurateur (Chez Panisse), Author, Advocate
Changing the World, One Meal at a Time
March 22
Harold McGee
Author, Food & Cooking: The Science & Lore of the Kitchen
Playing with Food: Science and Action in the Kitchen
April 5
Michael Pollan
Knight Prof. of Journalism, UC Berkeley, and Author,
The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Cornification of America
