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Watch the whole talk on A&S TV. By Rachel Komich On Sept. 14, Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan kicked off the year for Food Studies with his talk, New Crops from Wild Fruits: Re-Diversifying Cropping Systems. Dr. Nabhan, a MacArthur Fellow and W.K. Kellogg Chair in the Southwest Borderlands and Water […]

Knowing the Future goes to the movies with the “What Does the Future Hold?” film series, featuring The Imitation Game on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Athena Cinema with with discussion led by Prof. Eric Stinaff. Morten Tyldum / 114 min. / PG-13 This Academy Award winning […]

The War & Peace theme presents Dr. Craig M. Zelizer on “Building Peace in Hard Places: Lessons for the 21st Century Peacebuilding” on Monday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. at Schoonover 450. Zelizer is Associate Director of the Conflict Resolution Program, Georgetown University & Co-founder of Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Zelizer […]

The Sustainability Studies theme presents a free screening of Cotton Road on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. Abstract: Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. Yet few of us know how our clothes are made, much less who produces them. Cotton Road follows the commodity of […]

The Food Studies theme Book Club holds its second meeting of Fall 2015 on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 5 p.m. in the Faculty Commons (Alden 301U). The discussion topic is chapters 3-5 (Eggs, Fruit, and Vegetables) of Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg. (Belknap Harvard, 416pp. ISBN 9780674032910) About […]

Join Food Studies theme faculty and students for a potluck at the Environmental & Plant Biology Learning Gardens off of West State Street on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 5 p.m. Bring a dish to share with great company while enjoying the beauty and the bounty of these Ohio University gardens.

Dr. Matthew Layton is giving a Wealth & Poverty research talk on “Conditional Social Assistance and the Politics of Social Exclusion in Latin America” on Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 9-10:20 a.m. in Bentley 233. Layton, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, is an affiliate of the Wealth and […]