Hello all- Please see below for information on a Food Ethics lecture series that is being held during 2011-12. The talks, organized by Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute are free and open to the public for folks near University Park, but will also be available as webcasts.
Regards, Bryan Bryan McDonald, PhD Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Program Pennsylvania State University Email: [email protected] --------- *Food Ethics Lecture Series - Live Webcast: August 29, 2011 - March 19, 2012* The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State-in collaboration with the Bioethics Program and several other units at University Park-invites you to join us for the Food Ethics Lectures Series 2011-12. The series explores some of the most compelling issues in food ethics today-from the agrarian tradition to industrial farming, from the ethics of nutrigenomics to food safety and food security, from fish in pain to the fish on your plate. This course of eight distinct but interrelated lectures is-like any good meal-designed to leave the audience both satisfied and wanting more. The lectures can be viewed live on the web, and questions can be submitted in real time to the speakers. For a list of all the lectures, please go to: http://rockethics.psu.edu/bioethics/events/food1112.shtml The first lecture is by Paul B. Thompson W. K. Kellogg Professor of Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University, and will be webcast live on Monday, August 29 at 3 - 4:30pm EST: "What Makes Food Good? The Terrain of Food Ethics and the Agrarian Tradition." No advance registration is required. To view the lecture live, go to http://live.libraries.psu.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=e4b17c21e9f14437b9b1cbf8de55f9fe1d Viewers are also encouraged to follow and engage in the conversation about food ethics on the Rock Ethics Institute's Bioethics Blog, http://rockblogs.psu.edu/bioethics/, and on the Public Philosophy Network: http://publicphilosophynetwork.ning.com/group/foodethics . If you would like to receive email reminders about our forthcoming lectures in the Food Ethics Lecture Series, please send an email to [email protected] . For more information about the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State, please go to http://rockethics.psu.edu/ . To learn more about Penn State's Bioethics Program, and its new interdisciplinary dual-title Ph.D. in bioethics, the only program of its kind, please go to http://bioethics.psu.edu
