Food Politics

Keynote talk for conference on “Let’s talk about the farm bill,” 3:00 p.m. (tentative)

Lecture to Willard community, 7:00 p.m. Kiggens auditorium: food sustainability.

Lecture on “food politics: implications for France,” 9:45-10:30 a.m., French Cultural Services, 972 5th Ave, ata  French Embassy Workshop on French and American Perspectives on Food and Health.  For information about attendance and schedule, send e-mail to florence.barnier@diplomatie.gouv.fr or telephone 212-439-1463.

Third International Forum on Food and Nutrition.  Bocconi University Conference Hall, Via Sarfatti 25, Milan.  Workshop panel, 2:30-4:15.  For information, see www.barillacfn.com.  The conference is live-streamed.

Panelists, besides me, include Nathan Myhrvold, Andre Soltner, Dave Arnold, Johnny Iuzzini, Wylie Dufresne.  International Culinary Center, 462 Broadway, 6:30 p.m.  for the panel, followed by a reception.  For information: modernistcuisine@intlculcenter.com.

A food-focused summit will explore how sustainability impacts what and how we eat, from the growing and harvesting of ingredients to the processing, packaging, distribution, retailing, cooking, and consumption of food.

Citibank Auditorium, 399 Park Avenue, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Summit speakers include Marion Nestle, Carolyn Steel, Joel Salatin, Marcus Samuelsson, Magnus Nilsson, Tim Zagat, and Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs Eskil Erlandsson.

Tickets to the Summit are available at $295.  For information see  http://www.saccny.org/events/green-business/ and  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1559136419

Eat Their Words: The Role of the Media in Keeping Our Food Safe

Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, New York
12:00 to 1:00 PM

Noon-1 p.m. featured event: The Role of the Media in Keeping Our Food Safe
Consumer Reports moderates a discussion with Marion Nestle, William Neuman, and Bill Marler.

This event is free and open to the public.

Click here for more information on this event, and to see the full Consumer Reports 75th anniversary celebration schedule.

Panel discussion as part of Critical Topics Series.  4:00 p.m., Bobst Library 3rd floor.

This World Food Day’s talk on Sunday is titled “The overt and covert costs of food: economic, social, ethical, and health dimensions.”  It’s from 2:30 to 6:00 pm at Hopkinson House, 32nd floor, 604 south Washington Square, Philadelphia.  Other speakers are on genetic engineering and the promise of SPIN farming.

This panel is part of an all-day conference

This will be a noon lecture, open to public.  Details to follow.

My lecture is at 7:00 p.m.  It is part of a series on Food Production, Consumption, and Security.  Open to public on the Lethbridge campus.

This is a lecture in a Letters and Science/Journalism 101 course on The Rise and Future of the Food Movement.  6:00 p.m. Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.  Open to public but reservations needed.

This is a panel discussion “From There to Here: Harvesting the Roots of Today’s Farming and Artisan Cookery through Oral History,” with me and:

Ben Flanner, Urban Farmer

Laena McCarthy, Owner, Anarchy in a Jar

Judy Weinraub, Journalist, Oral Historian

Will Wootton, President of Sterling College

Moderated by  Food & Restaurant Consultant Clark Wolf

Free and open to public.  Bobst Library, Washington Square South, 3rd floor,  4:00 to 6:00 pm

I’m doing an “Encounter with the expert: Current conflicts in public health nutrition: the role of the food industry.”  3:00-5:00 p.m., Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, Torre 1, 3rd floor, sala 4.  Open to public.  Sponsor:  The Centre Catala de la Nutricio.

I’m giving the second plenary talk at 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero.  The conference runs May 9-11 and is sold out.  Registered participants only.

I’m on a panel on health and nutrition at the Washington Post’s conference on the Future of Food at Georgetown University, Gaston Hall, 37th and O Street NW, 9:00 to 4:30.   Free to public.

Earth Day panel on “Earth to Table / Table to Earth.” It’s at the Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave, 2:30-4:00, at the James Beard pop-up restaurant.  Michel Nischan and Karen Karp are also on the panel, chaired by Mitchell Davis.

Eating Liberally and Kitchen Table Talks are hosting a panel discussion at Fales Library, NYU, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor. 6:30pm-8:30pm.  Participants:

• Dan Imhoff, author of CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
• Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU nutrition professor who served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
• Michael Moss, New York Times investigative reporter whose exposé on E. coli-tainted industrial beef, “The Burger That Shattered Her Life,” won a Pulitzer Prize
• Paula Crossfield, editor of CivilEats.com, moderator

“Keystone” public lecture, Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues on “Thought for Food.”  7:00 pm

My talk is on “The Politics of Childhood Nutrition: How the Food Environment Undermines Healthy Food Choices.”  It is sponsored by Commonground, a group representing parents of children attending several independent schools in the Princeton area.  7:30 p.m.  Open to public.

I am giving a lecutre on “food politics, nutrition, and sustainable food production” at 4:30 pm, at the Campus Center as the final lecture in a year-long series on “The Hungry Mind.”  Open to public.

I am the 2011 recipient of the National Public Health Hero Award given by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and will make brief remarks.  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 6:00 reception.

I’m on a panel at 4:00.  Details to come.

IACP regional conference.  Panel discussion on “what’s happening in the food world.”

Mal Nesheim and I are discussing our book, Feed Your Pet Right, at Cornell’s Mann Library at 4:00.  Open to the public.

This is a talk at a symposium in honor of the retirement of Martijn Katan on “Evidence-based nutrition: When is evidence proof?”  My talk is on “The politics of evidence-based nutrition.”  This will be at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, beginning at 11:30 am.

Engaging the University in Urban Agriculture

Panel: Pam Koch, Marion Nestle, Fabio Parasecoli, William Solecki, Mark Gregory Robson, Jaime Stein.

Moderator: Josh Viertel

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The New School, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

2 West 13th Street (corner 5th Avenue), NYC

This is a keynote presentation at 8:15 a.m.  to a conference: “Beyond Sugar: Contemporary Nutrition in Pediatric, Oral, and Systemic Health.”  Open to registered participants.  Details are here.

I will be giving a short presentation at this annual meeting of the awkwardly named “Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee” at the JF Kennedy School.

My seriously glamorous virtual avatar is being interviewed by Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9:00 p.m. EST on Second Life.    We are talking about food politics and food safety, among other topics, and you can tune in and listen on blog talk radio.

This is a panel on the “politics of food and health care” with David Kessler and Ruth Reichl.

I will keynote the annual conference at the Rochester Convention Center at 5:15.  Open to registered participants.

This event is for the Berkeley student co-ops, where I lived when I was a student.  The event is called “Navigating food choices in today’s economy: a dialogue with Marion Nestle and Narsai David.”  7:00 p.m. The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way.  Reservations at  www.bscaa.org/foodchoices.

This will be a lecture on “Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change” as part of a University of Washington course on Eating the Environment.   Open to the public.  6:30-8:00  p.m.  Kane 120.  Here are FoodSafetyNews notes on what I said, and some from Judy Lightfoot.

Conference on “the precarious alliance: strengthening human networks and natural systems.”  Information and registration.  My hour-long talk is at around 10:00 a.m., on food issues related to climate change.

The Nobel Conference on “Making Food Good.”  My talk is posted online.  Excerpts are posted on the Edible Communities site.

The New York Culinary Experience, sponsored by the French Culinary Institute and New York Magazine.  Lunchtime Q and A.

Lecture in Douglass Campus Center, Trayes Hall, 100 George Street, 12:30 to 2:00.  Open to community

I am giving the Peggy Friedman Memorial Annual Social Justice Public Lecture at Piscataway High School.  7:00 p.m.  Open to the public.

A talk on communicating scientific information to Board members.  Closed to public

This is a book launch for the new edition of “Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety.”  5:00 p.m. 20 Cooper Square 5th floor.  Free and open to public

Public Health Grand Rounds at SUNY-Upstate Medical University’s Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, co-sponsored with the College of Human Ecology at Syracuse University.  Title: “Public Health Nutrition in the Obama Era: Key to the Food Revolution.” 4:00 p.m. 2231 Weiskotten Hall, Irving Ave.

Linfield Convocations address, 4 p.m., Ted Wilson Gymnasium, on the Politics of Food.

A presentation on “Sustainability, Safety, and Security.”  Details TK

I’m giving a couple of lectures and seminars at this event at various times during the July 4th weekend.  Registered participants only, alas.

In honor of the opening of NYU’s new bookstore space at 726 Broadway, I will talk about my books about food politics at 7:00 p.m.

I’m participating in a panel after a showing of the new film, “What’s Organic About Organic?”   The film previews June 21-25 at 7:00 p.m., and June 26 and 27 at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.  Tickets are $10 except June 25, which is a fundraiser for NOFA.  HERE Theater, 145 6th Ave.

I am receiving Bard College’s John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service at commencement exercises for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI).  According to the BPI Wikipedia entry, the program offers a liberal arts degree to incarcerated individuals in five different prisons in New York state.  It enrolls nearly 200 students and is one of the few degree-granting programs that exists since the government eliminated funding for prison education in 1995.

Mal Nesheim and I will be talking about Feed Your Pet Right at the Fales special collections section of NYU’s Bobst Library (3rd floor), at 4:00.  Click here for the invitation and details.

Mal Nesheim and I are doing a reading of Feed Your Pet Right at 3:00 at the Point Reyes Bookstore. I’m not sure about the location (Toby’s Feed Barn?), but the bookstore is at 11315 State Route 1, in Point Reyes Station and the store’s phone number is 415.663.1542.  My lecture is the first in a “Food for Thought” series of lectures by people who write terrific books about food and food issues.  I wish I could go to all of them.

Mal Nesheim and I are doing a reading of Feed Your Pet Right at 3:00 p.m.  This antiquarian and collectible cookbook store–worth a visit on its own–is at 3885 Cesar Chavez Street, at Church.

Sustainable Food Institute on future of food, closing keynote, 3:30 p.m.   This is an invitational event that is not open to the public.

Mal Nesheim and I are talking about our new book, “Feed Your Pet Right,” at Holistic Hound, a nifty  pet store at 1510 Walnut (near Vine) in Berkeley (we wrote the chapter on organic pet food based on products from this store).  This will be at 6:30 p.m.  Free and open to the public.

I’ll be speaking at a private salon that is open to the public.  The series is in honor of Cyril Patrick Shaughnessy, Jr.  It is free but requires rsvp.  To rsvp, go to cpslectures.com.  Click on “invite me.” This will trigger an e-mail and, later, an e-vite with details about where and when.   My presentation, on “Food Politics, Pet Food Politics, and Today’s Healthcare Mess,” is at 8:00 p.m.

This is the 2010 Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future.  12:00 to 1:30 p.m.  Details at the Center’s website.  Open to public.

I am being honored by Eating Liberally, Saturday, May 1st – 7-11 pm, at their annual celebration.  It’s at the DCTV Firehouse – 87 Lafayette between Walker and White – in Lower Manhattan.  “Support the work of Living Liberally in over 300 cities, and toast our honorees: Dr. Marion Nestle for her leadership in improving our diets and the world and the labor powerhouse SEIU for its support of a progressive America.”  For information and tickets, click here.

This is a moderated panel discussion with Prof. Paul Argenti and others on the subject of the film, Food, Inc.  The film will be shown in Georgiopolis at the Tuck School at 4:30 and the panel discussion is at 6:30.   Open to public.

The lecture is sponsored by the Women’s Health Advisory Council of Lake Forest Hospital.  It is from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and includes a book signing.  Location: the Gorton Community Center, 400 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest.   Open to public.  For information and registration, click here.

Center for Social Concerns lecture, Earth Week keynote, 7:30 p.m.  Open to public (location?)

Talk on the forthcoming pet food book–”An Outsiders’ View”–at the annual Pet Food Industry Forum, afternoon.  Open to meeting registrants only.

Presentation to the Committee on Front-of-Pack Labeling, 1:30 p.m., at the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave.

Clark Wolf is moderating one of his Critical Topics panels at the Fales Library (Bobst, 3rd Floor) from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.  Hear Frank Bruni, Scott Hocker, Krishnendu Ray, and me discuss how we are talking and writing about food in the new media world.  Open to the public.

Georgetown University Library Associates, 6:00 p.m.

Knight Science Journalism Program (participants only).

Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, colloquium series, 4:30 p.m. 233 Plant Sciences on “The food revolution: implications for public policy.” Free and open to the public.

Graduate Field of Nutrition seminar, 100 Savage Hall, 4:00 p.m. on “Food politics: has the food revolution reached Washington?” Free and open to the public.

This lecture is rescheduled from February 10 (snow emergency).  Arts and Sciences spring Theme program on sustainability.  Lecture: “What to Eat: Food, Politics, and Sustainability.”  1:00 p.m. Science Building room S-100.

Nutrition Awareness Month lecture, keynote speaker, evening lecture, 7:00 p.m.

A lecture to first-year students in the course on Physician, Patient, and Society on the politics of obesity, 9:00 a.m.

This is for the 100th anniversary of the USDA’s Economic Research Service.  The event runs from 2:00 to 3:30 at 1800 M Street, NW, Waugh Auditorium.

I’m lecturing on food politics at 10:50 a.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center.  For information.

This is for the Louisiana State University School of Public Health and marketumbrella.org.  Details to be arranged for the 18th and 19th.

Girls’ Night Out, on What to Eat.  6:30 p.m.  Open to public.  This event has caused quite a stir, apparently.  Science magazine had a snarky little piece on it (scroll down to lower left) sniffing that “girls” must not be interested in real science given the lineup of speakers. I wrote an equally sniffy rebuttal (go to the second page).  Enjoy!

This is a panel discussion from 1:45 to 3:15 on the future of academic food writing.  Information about registration is here.

Lecture on the theme of sustainability and the American food system.  Cancelled due to expected snow.  Rescheduled for March 11.

Global Food Safety Conference, 2010, JW Marriott, Washington, DC.  My talk is at 2:00 p.m.  Information is here.  Registered participants only.

This is a talk on the forthcoming book on pet food to staff of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (by invitation), at the FDA offices in Silver Spring, MD.  Early afternoon.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and his staff, along with Just Food and NYU, have organized this upcoming conference, this one on climate change.   Details are on the conference website. Admission is free.  It runs from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place at 4th Street.  Call 212-669-2094 for more information.  My talk is in the morning.

I will be speaking about my work at this meeting of the NYU Society of Fellows at the Torch Club, 6:00-9:00 (members only).

This is part of the Behind the Book: A Visiting Author program that encourages authors to talk to high school students.  1:45-3:15 p.m. in the class run by Ray Pultinas, who is organizing an activism conference focused on food.

This meeting is held in conjunction with the Westchester Cat Show at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.   My talk will be in the afternoon.  Schedules and conference information are posted on the Cat Writers’ website.

This will be a panel discussion at the New School, Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 W. 13th St.  Other panel members are Peter Pringle, Brian Walsh, and Bob Goodman.

I’m doing a panel at a fundraising luncheon for the NRDC, 12:00 to 2:00, place and other panel members to be determined.

This will be a keynote presentation on the politics of food safety at 2:00 p.m. at the main stage at the San Francisco Concourse and Gift Center, 635 8th St.

I’m speaking to Michael Pollan’s journalism class about food politics.

This is a lecture during Challenge Week 2009, with the theme Just Food: Farm-to-Fork Food Systems for the 21st Century.  My talk is at 7:00 p.m.  Other speakers during the series, which runs from November 5 to November 12, are Joel Berg, Chris Taylor, Woody Tasch, and Joel Salatin.  Here are the details.

This is a panel celebrating members of the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who.  Fales Library (Bobst Library 3rd floor), 4:00 p.m.

This conference, sponsored by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University, is about what can be learned by comparing experiences from tobacco, alcohol, food, and pharmaceuticals.  My talk is from 10:00 to 10:20 a.m.  Location: Irving Institute Conference Room, 622 W. 168th St, PH-10-204 (10th floor) in the Presbyterian Hospital Building.  The conference runs for two days, November 2 and 3.  Details are here.

This was to be a panel discussion moderated by WNYC Radio Host Leonard Lopate, to kick off this year’s Gourmet Institute. It was to include Ruth Reichl, Editor-in-chief, Gourmet (now former), Barry Estabrook, Politics of the Plate contributor, Kim Severson, Food Writer, The New York Times, Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA, and Lorraine Bracco, Actress/Winemaker, Bracco Wines.  Along with the demise of Gourmet magazine, this got cancelled too.  Alas.

Lecture on U.S. food politics

Lecture at a seminar on nutrition and diet-related diseases

This is the 6th annual George McGovern lecture in the Green Room at FAO at 2:30 p.m.

Lecture to students and faculty of the Master’s Program in Human Development and Food Security, Roma Tre University, 3:00 p.m.

This is to UN nutrition professionals at FAO from 10:00 a.m. to noon.

Lecture at a Hypertension Symposium, Pacific Palms Resort, Industry Hills.  The program is sponsored by Southern California Permanente Medical Group and is offered for continuing education credit for doctors and nurses.  My talk, “sodium restriction: a public health imperative,” is at 11:30 a.m.

I’m giving the Saturday night keynote at Food for Thought, Time for Action: Sustainable Food, Farming, and Fisheries for the 21st Century, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, 7:30 p.m.

I’m speaking at the grand opening of the new Fair Food stand at this indoor market.  Fair Food brings in produce from local farmers and works with farmers to market their products.  10:30 a.m. for the press conference.

This is a keynote presentation to the annual meeting of Les Dames d’Escoffier

The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and the U.S. Embassy, keynote.  The Forum was founded in 1991 in commemoration of the late Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. A group of Kreisky’s friends and colleagues created the Forum to continue Kreisky’s work for Human Rights, the Middle Eastern Peace Process, Europe after the Cold War, and other issues close to him. This year’s lecture series can be found here.

Dinner and talk, probably 7:30 p.m.

This talk is to keynote the Global Conference on Meeting Nutritional Challenges with Sustainability and Equity, August 2-3, India International Centre (Annexe).  The meeting is organized by IBFAN (International Baby Feeding Action Network), Navdanya, IHES (Initiative for Health, Equity, and Society) and BPNI (Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India).  It starts at 8:30 a.m. on August 2.  My talk is at 9:40.

University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions, Schaibel Auditorium, Bunnell Building, 7:00 p.m.

Panel on “ingredient for success in turbulent times #6: engaged people.”  Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 11:00 a.m.  This one was videotaped.  And here’s Refresh blog’s Bob Vosburgh with some notes on the talk.

I’m speaking at an organizing event for Corporate Accountability International (formerly Infact).  Here’s the e-vite where you can find out about it and RSVP.

This will be a talk on food safety to members of Stop Tables Our Priority at a fundraiser in Brooklyn (see invitation), 7:00 p.m.

William J. Clinton Distinguished Lecture, Clinton School of Public Service,  Library, Sturgis Hall, 6:00 p.m.

Annual Meeting, W Hotel, Union Square, 201 Park Ave South at 17th St, Great Room, 5:00 p.m.

Young Lions Committee presents Eating at Home with Rocco Dispirito, Julie Powell, and me in conversation with Amanda Hesser.  Reception 7:00 p.m.  Program 8:00 p.m.

Oregon State University, Diet and Optimum Health conference, 9:00 a.m., Hilton Hotel

This is a lecture to the York College (CUNY) – FDA Collaboration, Provost Excellence Lecture Series, at noon, York College Academic Core Building, Guy Brewer Road, Jamaica, Queens.  It is open to the public.

Gel 2008.  Times Center, 41st and 7th Ave

Conference on “Import safety: regulatory governance in the global economy,” Penn Program on Regulation, opening dinner, Inn at Penn, 6:30, keynote speech.

In Search of Real Food (with Michael Pollan), Landmark Theater, 6 North Laurel, 8:00 p.m.  Currently sold out, but call 804-330-3993 for availability.

This is the lecture that got snowed out on March 2.  It’s at 1:00 in  Spiro Hall, Room 2 (here’s the old announcement).

Pennsylvania State University, Rock Ethics Institute annual Lippen lecture, 7:00 p.m.

Pennsylvania State University Bioethics and Medical Humanities Program
Rock Ethics Institute 9th Annual Lippin Ethics Lecture and Workshop

Pennsylvania State University
Lobby Talks PBS program, 7:00 p.m.

MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program, MIT Faculty Club 9:00 a.m.

Round table; by invitation only

University of Toledo
Environmental Sciences and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs

NYU Langone Medical Center, noon

Interview on Firedoglake, 5:00-7:00 p.m. east coast time

Penn Club, 30 W. 44th St, reception at 6:00, dinner at 6:45

I’m speaking at Wagner College, Staten Island, at 1:00 on Monday, March 2, Spiro Hall, Room 2 (unless it is snowed out, of course).  Here’s the Wagner announcement.

It was indeed snowed out and will be rescheduled for some time in April.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 4 pm

NYU Alumni event, evening, International Hotel, Century City

Kansas City Healthy Kids conference, morning, Kaufman Center

Kansas City Public Library downtown, evening

At 9:00 p.m. I’m bravely doing another Second Life interview.  Take a look at my classy avatar!

St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center
Cardiovascular Fellows Forum series, 12:45 p.m. Babcock Bldg, 114th and Amsterdam

U. Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, 1:00 p.m. Blockley Hall

Invitational: Union of Concerned Scientists Advisory Committee, 11:00 a.m., Sir Francis Drake Hotel (with Michael Pollan)

University of Toronto, Hart House

Rancho La Puerta

Hyde Park: Culinary Institute of America
2:00-4:00pm

DH Shaw Co
Noon

Mid-Manhattan Library
455 5th Ave (40th St)
6:30-8:00pm