2009-2010 Ecologies in the balance? Thinking Through the crises event, 11/16

The next Global Initiatives 2009-2010 Ecologies in the balance?  Thinking Through the crises...event will be a Discussion, followed by a film screening of Bullshit, on Monday, November 16, at Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center (DC).  Discussion panelists include Professor Anne C. Bellows (University of Hohenheim), Professor Martina Aruna Padmanabhan (Humboldt University), and Professor Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University).  The discussion will begin at 6:00 PM, followed by the film screening at 7:30 PM.  Light refreshments will be served at 7:00 PM.
 
Bullshit is about Vandana Shiva, Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, who does battle with one of her toughest opponents, Monsanto, a huge American biotech company, when they try to patent an ancient Indian strain of wheat.  In this film Vandana Shiva also tackles the question of farmers’ suicide, a backlash of globalization.  It’s a film on globalization and patenting, on genetic engineering, bio-piracy, and indigenous knowledge.  In this documentary, the filmmakers follow Vandana Shiva over a two-year period, from her organic farm at the foot of the Himalayas to institutions of power all over the world.

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