Food Justice and Climate Change Fall Symposium (Day 2): Pandemic as Portal
This event is free, entirely remote, recorded and open to the public.
Join us via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82536670164
Please join us for the first of a two-day symposium that uses as a central theme Arundhati Roy’s phrase, “The Pandemic as Portal” as a lens to analyze contemporary political economy with a focus on the food system. The last few years have opened our eyes wider to the ways in which food “isn’t just food,” but is intertwined with larger issues like immigration, labor, health, globalization, environmentalism, Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice and more. The pandemic has, for some people, served as a portal, exposing inequities and injustices, laying bare the bankruptcy of the neoliberal vision. Historically, times of crises served as opportunities for deep social transformation.
Schedule:
Thursday, Oct. 20
asynchronous
Film: Children of the Vine (on the ecological and health impacts of glyphosphate)
11am-1pm
Film: Discussion on Children of the Vine with film director Brian Lilla and Greener grad Dr. Nathan Donley from the Center for Biological Diversity
1:30-3pm
Presentation and Discussion: War, Global Rising Food Prices, and Regime Instability with Dr. Savvina Chowdhury, Evergreen faculty member in PEGSEJ
For questions, please reach out to the symposium planners Dr. Frederica Bowcutt (bowcuttf@evergreen.edu) and Dr. Prita Lal (lalp@evergreen.edu).
