[MCN] Vandana Shiva in Missoula next week

[Neva Hassanein]

From:  President's Lecture Series <Announcements at umontana.edu>
Date:  Friday, February 19, 2016 8:49 AM
To:  "CampusCommunications at umontana.edu" <CampusCommunications at umontana.edu>
Subject:  Wednesday, February 24, 2016: President's Lecture Series presents
Vandana Shiva

The President's Lecture Series
Presents
 
Vandana Shiva
Founder and Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and
Ecology and Founder and Managing Trustee, Navdanya Trust
New Delhi, India
 
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Seminar
"Living Seed, Living Soil, and Earth Democracy"
 
Wednesday, February 24
3:10-4:30 p.m.
Gallagher Business Building, Room 123
 
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Lecture
"We Are All Seeds: Food Security and Environmental Sustainability²
(Brennan Guth Memorial Lecture in Environmental Philosophy in collaboration
with the Environmental Studies Program)
 
Wednesday, February 24
8:00 p.m.
Dennison Theatre
 
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You are cordially invited to attend a seminar and lecture with Vandana
Shiva. She is one of the most prominent radical scientists and environmental
activists in the world, with a storied record of opposition to
biotechnology, genetic engineering, and other advances resulting from
corporate-led globalization. Trained as a physicist at the University of
Punjab, she did her Ph.D. work at the University of Western Ontario. Dr.
Shiva later shifted to interdisciplinary research in science, technology,
and environmental policy, which she pursued at the Indian Institute of
Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Banglahore, India. In
1982, she founded an independent institute ‹ the Research Foundation for
Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun ‹ dedicated to the study of
ecology and social issues. The Foundation has made a practice of partnering
with local communities and social movements. In 1991, she founded Navdanya,
a national movement especially concerned about the protection of native
seeds and the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. This initiative
has resulted in the establishment of sixty seed banks. In 2004, she started
Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for sustainable living in Doon
Valley, in collaboration with Schumacher College, UK. She is a board member
of the International Forum on Globalization. In 1993, she received the
Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award).
 
Dr. Shiva¹s more than two dozen books include the following:
* Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight
against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture (2016)
* Ecofeminism: Critique, Influence, Change (2cd ed., 2014), written with
Maria Mies 
* Making Peace with the Earth (2013)
* Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (2010)
* Soil not Oil (2008)
* Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (2005)
* Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (2002)
* Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (2000)
 
Speaking engagements have taken Dr. Shiva all over the world. We are
extremely fortunate to have her in Missoula. Visit
http://www.umt.edu/president/events/lectures/default.php for more
information about the President's Lecture Series.
 
 
SEMINAR AND LECTURE ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


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