Environment: Personal as Political
Women, Food and Environmental Ethics

April 9-10, Memorial Union, Iowa State University

Sponsored by college of Agriculture, Bio-ethics, LAS International
Programs, Women's Studies

Friday Afternoon:

12-5 Great Hall, Memorial Union

12-1:30: International Food Issues
Ricardo J. Salvador and Digna Salvador: Women's Work: 3,500 Years of
Survival and Cultural Identity Among the Zapotec of Southern Mexico
Ann Jones: An Anthropological Perspective on Issues of Women, Health and the
Environment in Rural South Africa
Karen Kessel: "We are Banana People"?: Island Women Small-holders and a
Decade of  Debate About Local as Development

1:30-1:45 Break

1:45-3:15 Panel: Native Americans:
Jill Wagner: Food and a Female Fieldworker: Observations of Traditional
Schitsu'umsh Foods
Jeanne Spauer Ballinger: Cultures through the Kitchen
Irma Wilson White: Native American Women and GMOs
Lynn Paxson: Traditional Environments in Transition

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-5: Ecofeminism and Bioregional Perspectives
Irene Faess: Fractured Promises: Ecofeminist Rhetoric about Agricultural
Biotechnology
Carolyn Heising: Ecofeminism and Technoscience: A Radical Strategy for
Transformation
Jennifer Seydel: Ecological Identity and Biospheric Perspectives: A
Comparative Analysis  of Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson

Saturday: 9-5: Gallery, Memorial Union

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee

9-10:15 Roundtable: "Local Food Systems and Gender, Views from Near and Far"
Betty Wells, Etta Thornburg, Danielle Wirth

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:45 Keynote Address: Victoria Davion,
Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgia
Editor, Ethics and the Environment. Areas of specialization:
environmental ethics, feminist philosophy

11:45-12:30 Lunch

12:30-2: Ask Me How You Grow Your Food
Nan Bonfils: Full Circle Farms
Donna Julseth; Prairieland Herbs
Angela Tedesco: Turtle Farms

2-3:15 CBOs: Food Issues in Urban Environments
LaDonna Redmond: Urban Food Issues and Environmental Justice
Tiva Dawson: Community Gardens as Social Intervention and Community Building

3:30 - 5:30 "Recipe for Prairie Restoration - Iowa Style" Hands on
experience at the Pohl prairie in Ames. Danielle Wirth, ISU Women's Studies
program and Anna MacDonald, DMACC student, soon to be an Iowa
State student - and, staff person  at the Neal Smith National Wildlife
Refuge.
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