Please join us for a discussion with Benjamin Saulsberry, staff member at the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, who will describe how the Center came to be and how it works to use storytelling as a means of healing past traumas while shaping new narratives in the community and society at large.
The celebration is open to anyone from the Harvard community—from those who have worked in the region to those who are interested in learning more about it. Hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, and soft drinks will be served.
In his new book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups, long time food activist, Andy Fisher demonstrates the existence of a hunger industrial complex—the web of relationships between corporations and anti-hunger groups that perpetuate hunger rather than eliminate it. Big Hunger reveals the damage caused by this hunger-industrial complex to […]
*Canceled due to inclement weather* Lunch will be served Later this year, Congress is scheduled to re-authorize the Farm Bill, the federal law that defines our food and farm system by determining what we eat, how and where crops are grown, and how we take care of agricultural land. Congressman Blumenauer will talk about the […]
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The First Annual Conference on Food Law and Policy Friday, October 5 | Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy is one of the fastest growing legal fields, with a rapidly increasing number of law review articles, conferences, courses, and clinical programs focused on the field’s cases and controversies. In response to this explosive growth, the Academy […]
Mississippi Delta Lunch Talk Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018 Time: 12-1 pm Location: Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Room 100 Community Based Interdisciplinary Research to Inform Policy: The Case of Lead and Drinking Water in the Delta Join us for a discussion with John J. Green, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for […]
March 9, 2019 | 10AM-4PM | Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
The Food Law Student Leadership Summit convenes law students from around the country who share a passion for creating an equitable, transparent, healthy, and sustainable food system. Food law and policy is a fast-growing field within the legal profession and society at large. The 2019 Summit will be held April 5-7th in Washington, D.C. at the Georgetown […]
The food system—from fertilizer manufacturing to production and distribution to food waste in landfills—is responsible for 25 - 30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Agriculture is also uniquely threatened by climate change. As a result, there is growing consensus that the food system—what we eat and how we grow it—requires major change in order to protect our health, […]