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I am moderating a forum for candidates for Mayor of New York City at The New School’s Tishman auditorium, 66 West 12th Street.  It runs from 6 – 8 p.m. (Doors open at 5 p.m.).

The Forum is co-hosted by the Brooklyn Food Coalition, City Harvest, Food Bank For New York City, Food Chain Workers Alliance, Food Studies program at The New School for Public Engagement, Food Systems Network NYC, Hunger Action Network NYS, Just Food, New York City Coalition Against Hunger, New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College, NRDC Action Fund, and Public Health Solutions.

These are joined by about 70 partner organizations, and the list is growing.

I get to ask the questions.  What fun!

The forum will be live streamed over the Internet. Click here for additional details.

New Directions in the Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition: A Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen.  Cornell University, Statler Hotel Amphitheater.  The conference begins at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast and ends with a reception the following day with remarks by professor Pinstrup-Andersen at 2:25 p.m.  For the schedule and details, click here.

My joint contribution with Malden Nesheim is from 1:40-2:00 p.m. on “the internationalization of the obesity epidemic: the case of sugar-sweetened sodas.”

I’m giving the 27th Annual Fae Golden Kass lecture for women in the medical sciences.  4:00 p.m. This is at the Carl E. Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston MA.  Book Signing and Reception to follow.

Keynote on symposium theme: Nutrition from Science to Policy.  Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall,  UC Berkeley, 9:10 a.m.

Common hour talk to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute leadership academy for undergraduates, 11:30 a.m.  Here’s a report.  And here’s the video of the lecture.

Opening address to the 70th anniversary symposium on poverty, inequality, and welfare policies, 9:00 a.m.

Prolongacion Paseo de la Reforma 880  Lomas de Santa Fe, 01219 Mexico City, Federal District.

Keynote talk on the conference theme, sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society: Circulating Natures: Water, Food, Energy.  Ludwig-Maximillian University, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 7:00 p.m.

This will be a presentation of Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics, published the day before.  The talk is in the Enlighted Eaters series.  It’s at noon at the James Beard House, 167 W 12th St.