Slow Food Nation Considered is a forum in which key participants in Slow Food Nation, which will be held over Labor Day weekend in San Francisco, will reflect on the conference’s influence and ramifications with regard to the current world food crisis. For instance, what did the conference accomplish relative to the world food crisis? Was it inclusive or exclusive? Did it sufficiently address mounting global food-related problems? Going forward, how can the Slow Food Movement most effectively engage with the global food crisis?

Slow Food Nation Considered speakers: Dr. Vandana Shiva, physicist, activist, and Vice President of Slow Food International; Dr. Fred Kirschenmann, organic farmer and Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; Dr. Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley; Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and Knight Professor of Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Moderator: Dr. Richard Walker, author of The Country in the City and Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley.

SPONSORS: Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions, an interdisciplinary project of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, is collaborating with the Graduate School of Journalism to sponsor a 2008-2009 speaker series to examine the causes of and potential solutions for the world food crisis.

TICKETS:

Slow Food Nation Considered is free to UC Berkeley students with valid identification.

Tickets are available to the public for $10 at 510.642.9988, www.calperfs.berkeley.edu, and at the Ticket Office, which is located at the northeast corner of Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Ticket Office hours are: Mon – Fri, 10 am – 5:30 pm; Sat & Sun, 1 pm – 5 pm, and approximately one hour prior to curtain. Tickets and will call will also be available at Wheeler Auditorium beginning at 6pm on Wednesday, September 3rd. Doors will open at 6:30pm on Wednesday, September 3rd, and the panel will begin at 7:00pm.