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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Registration Form Name: ________________________ Affiliation:____________________ Reply to: [log in to unmask] or Karen Kessel 324 Curtiss Department of Anthropology Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 For additional information, contact: Karen Kessel ([log in to unmask]) or Whitney Sanford ([log in to unmask]) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]