Georgia College & State University
01/15/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 01/14/2025 23:03
Feast for Thought, An Exploration of Food, Society and the Environment by Engaging the Public Liberal Arts
Feast for Thought, An Exploration of Food, Society and the Environment by Engaging the Public Liberal Arts
Rural Studies Institute Wednesday January 15, 2025
The Rural Studies Institute is pleased to invite you to our 2024-2025 virtual noon-day discussion series, "Feast for Thought, An Exploration of Food, Society and the Environment by Engaging the Public Liberal Arts." Join us for an engaging interdisciplinary discussion with Georgia College & State University experts, as we explore the intricate relationships between food systems, cultural practices and our planet. Whether you're passionate about sustainability and environmental issues, interested in food culture or society's impact on them, this series will provide a thought-provoking look at how our choices shape the world around us.
Our featured speaker for Feb. 7, 2025, will be Dr. Stephanie Opperman, professor of History at Georgia College. Opperman will provide expertise in the international and historical influences of food, society and the environment. Additional information about her work is below.
The goal of this unique series is to foster a vibrant dialogue that highlights our faculty, their expertise and the role of the public liberal arts in exploring agrarian traditions and informing public understanding. We hope to inspire new ideas and collaborative efforts that honor the extensive agrarian and rural traditions of the public liberal arts.
For more information, please see the attached promotional flyer and panelist information for previous and upcoming discussions.
To register for the Feb. 7, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. event, featuring Dr. Stephanie Opperman, please use the link below:
Stephanie Opperman is a professor of History at Georgia College & State University. As the Principal Investigator and Co-Program Director for the NEH grant, "Flannery O'Connor and Milledgeville: Collecting the Past," she is working with undergraduate students to interview community members who lived in Milledgeville during the heart of O'Connor's writing career (1951-1964). Her work has been published in the Journal of Women's History, Bulletin of Latin American Research, the Latin Americanist and Endeavour. Her book, "Cold War Anthropologist: Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico," will be published by the University of Arizona Press in November 2024.
Updated: 2025-01-14
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