Gonzaga food exhibit
Jan 20th, 2008 by Jason
Food for thought is the name of the exhibition at Jundt Museum’s Arcade Gallery
at Gonzaga University. (There’s gotta be a less clumsy way to say that.) The exhibit complements the school’s discussion theme of food, eating and agriculture. You’ve got another month to see it; it’s up November 30 2007 - March 8 2008.
They organized a pretty cool lecture series around the topic, including…
Brother David Andrews (whose bio reads like Cesar Chavez with a JD and a clerical collar) delivered the lecture Eating as a Moral Act. He also gave that talk to the 2004 Food and Society Conference, which is a Kellogg Foundation program. (I look forward to devoting a post to the Kellogg foundation, about which I know very little, except that they’ve given huge money to the School of Information at Michigan), which runs the programs in library and archives, HCI and policy. Thanks Kellogg Foundation! OK, back on track…Here’s Brother Andrews’ comments on the conference Feeding a Hungry World: The Moral Imperative of Biotechnology.
Professor Maccarone gave a talk called The Post-Industrial Eater: Aligning Ethical Values and Food Choices. I know what you’re thinking, Professor Emanuele Maccarone? The eminent Italian food chemist from the University of Catania? Author of From China to Brussels; the long path of the red oranges and Distribution of fatty acids and phytosterols as a criterion to discriminate geographic origin of pistachio seeds?! No no no, Ellen Maccarone, Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga and author of Impartiality in moral and political philosophy. (Thanks to ISI Web of Science for making this paragraph possible.)
Zaga also screened Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer Link goes to an incredible website connected with the film, with information for educators, farmers and anyone else interested. How cool!(Hey Mom, look! It’s distributed through Bullfrog Films!)
Patty Martin, Director of Washington based NGO Safe Food and Fertilizer lectured on…well, you can probably guess, and Mark Graham, author of Sustainable Agriculture: A Christian Ethic of Gratitude spoke on theology, ethics and agriculture.
The University of Pennsylvania also chose food as the subject of university-wide discussion. They picked Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma for the Penn Reading Project.
Here’s a Cool UPenn Library page with scholarly and popular resources on The Omnivore’s Dilemma and its subject matter.
I’d like to know what other schools are talking about food…