2009 Dooley Lecture Series
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 Raj Patel EcoLab Theatre 2:30–4 p.m. Raj Patel is a writer, academic, journalist and activist. He has a PhD from Cornell University and is currently a scholar in residence at University of California, Berkeley. He has worked at the World Bank, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. He is the author of several scholarly articles. His first book is Stuffed and Starved: the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville 2007). He has been a frequent contributor to the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR. In 2008 he testified on the global food crisis before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. |
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009 A reading by Jonathan Franzen EcoLab Theatre 8–9:30 p.m. Jonathan Franzen is a novelist and essayist. He is best known for his novel the Corrections 2001, winner of the National Book Award. He is the author of two other novels The Twenty-Seventh City 1988 and Strong Motion 1992, a book of essays How to be Alone 2002 and a memoir The Discomfort Zone 2006. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, and was a character on The Simpsons. |
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Lucius Hallett '93 EcoLab Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m. Dr. Hallett is an Assistant Professor of geography at Western Michigan University, where he focuses on the geography of food networks. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Kansas. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, receiving an Associate Degree in Culinary Arts in 1993. Dr. Hallet is the author of the scholarly articles Not Necessarily Better Simply Because It's Local: Investigating the Geographies of Local Food and the 'Local Trap' and Different Geographies for Different Folks: Narratives on What Gets Eaten. He is currently working with faculty at the University of Kansas on a project that examines the distances consumers will travel to shop for food, and what influences those decisions. |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 A reading by Philip Levine Ecolab Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m. A poet, essayist and translator, Philip Levine is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently, Breath (2004). His work has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, The National Book Critic's Circle Award, and The American Book Award for Poetry. In addition to these honors, he has also received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, the Leonard Marshall Poetry Prize and two Guggenheim fellowships. He currently serves as the Distinguished Poet in Residence for New York University's Creative Writing Program. |
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Paul Roberts Danny Kaye Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m. Paul Roberts is a journalist and writer. His first book is the End of Oil, his most recent book is The End of Food (2008). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian (UK), and other national newspapers and magazines. He also makes regular appearances on the BBC, PBS, CNN, NPR and other media. |
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Joel Berg "The Hunger Challenge for Foodies" EcoLab Theatre 2:30–4 p.m. Joel Berg is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of hunger and food security, and the author of the book, All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? He is the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Prior to his work with the Coalition Berg served for eight years in the Clinton Administration in senior executive service positions at USDA. For two years, he worked as USDA Community Coordinator of Community Food Security, a new position, in which he created and implemented the first-ever federal initiative to better enable faith-based and other nonprofit groups to fight hunger, bolster food security, and help low-income Americans move from poverty to self-sufficiency. He was USDA Coordinator of Food Recovery and Gleaning the previous two years, working with community groups to increase the amount of food recovered, gleaned, and distributed to hungry Americans. From 1989 to 1993, he served as a policy analyst for the Progressive Policy Institute and a domestic policy staff member for the President-elect Bill Clinton's transition team. Berg has published widely on the topics of hunger, national and community service, and grassroots community partnerships. He is the past winner of the US Secretary of Agriculture's Honor Award for Superior Service and the Congressional Hunger Center's Mickey Leland National Hunger Fighter Award. |
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 A reading by Charles Simic EcoLab Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m. Charles Simic is the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States. He is co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He was the 2007 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has also been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (1984) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is the author of 19 books of poetry beginning in 1967 with What the Grass Says, his most recent book is That Little Something (2008). Simic is also an essayist, translator, editor and professor emeritus of creative writing at the University of New Hampshire. |
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Thursday, October 8, 2009 Saru Jayaraman EcoLab Theatre, 2:30–4 p.m. Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United), a national restaurant workers' organization, and an Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science at Brooklyn College. Among other things, ROC-United has initiated a new national alliance of organizations of workers along the food chain, including farmworkers, meat and poultry processing workers, food distribution and retail workers, and restaurant workers. In 1992 she founded Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (W.Y.S.E.), a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing young women of color with the resources, information and support necessary to think critically and take leadership in their communities for change. As attorney/organizer at the Workplace Project, a Latina/o immigrant worker organizing center, she created The Alliance for Justice, a law and organizing program that organized custodial, factory, and restaurant workers to fight for workplace justice. After 9/11, together with workers from Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center, she co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), which has organized restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns and launch their own cooperatively-owned restaurant, which is now initiating a local and organic food sourcing program among New York restaurants. Ms. Jayaraman co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005). Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was named one of the Crain's "40 Under 40" in 2008, was named one of New York Magazine's "Influentials" of New York City. |
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Mark Danner EcoLab Theatre 8–9:30 p.m. Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who has written for more than two decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans and Iraq, among many other stories, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, and about violations of human rights during that time. His books include The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travel's Through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004) and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994). Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is also Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he directs the Goldman Forum, and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Humanities at Bard College. Danner's work has been honored with a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, Danner was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2006 he was awarded the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association to honor that year's "major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." In 2008 he was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome. He serves on the board of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Century Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of the Humanities at New York University. |
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