Additional lecture from the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and JusticeGenocide and the Crises of Modernity
A. Dirk Moses
Tuesday Oct. 14 7:30 p.m. The Future of Food Speaker Profiles
Wednesday, Oct. 8
“Thinking Globally About Food”
Paul Roberts  The author of The End of Food, Roberts writes on the complex interplay of economics, technology and the natural world. Roberts also has written for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The (UK) Guardian and has appeared in a number of other general interest publications. Roberts was a finalist for the National Magazine Award (1999) and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005 for his previous book The End of Oil. Roberts appears regularly on national and international television and radio news shows. He spoke at St. Scholastica in November 2007.
Wednesday, Oct. 29
“Food Politics”
Marion Nestle  Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology in NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences and as Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the politics of food with an emphasis on the role food marketing as a determinant of dietary choice. She is the author of Food Politics and Safe Food and is co-editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition. Her latest book is What to Eat. Upcoming volumes are Pet Food Politics and What Pets Eat.
Wednesday, Jan. 21
“Conventional Farming & Environmental Protection”
Amy Kaleita  Kaleita, who has a Ph.D. in agricultural engineering, teaches courses in soil and water conservation management and engineering at Iowa State University in Ames. She has received several awards for excellence in teaching both at Iowa State and at the University of Illinois where she earned her doctorate in 2003. Kaleita has published articles in both the academic and popular press and is an environmental studies fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. She is particularly interested in the role of globalization in engineering and technology education.
Wednesday, March 4
“Why the Farm Bill Matters to All of Us”
Daniel Imhoff
 Imhoff is the president and co-founder of Watershed Media, a non-profit publishing house based in Healdsburg, California. He also is the president and co-founder of the Wild Farm Alliance, a national organization that works to promote agriculture systems that support and accommodate wild nature. He is the author of numerous articles, essays and books including Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill; Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World; Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches; and Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood.
Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice
Mission
The Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice seeks to bridge social and political barriers to bring together people of all ages and philosophies to work toward the common goals of peace and justice. The College of St. Scholastica is proud to offer this important resource as a service to our region. The public is invited to participate in Center activities and to utilize the resource center. Suggestions for future events are welcome. For more information on the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice, contact Tom Morgan at tmorgan@css.edu | 
Much of the programming in the 2008-2009 Alworth Peace & Justice Lecture series deals with the future of food. A number of authoritative commentators argue that many of the seemingly disparate problems we are now confronting – obesity, the prevalence of food-borne disease, the persistence of hunger, even the transformation of Third World wilderness into enormous export-oriented farms – are related to, and even driven by, the basic economic mechanisms that have given rise to the modern food system.