Late last week I received notice that jolly Prince Charles will be speaking at Georgetown on the future of food, fresh from his oldest son’s nuptials. While that news was not exciting enough to move me to toss my hat into the lottery for a ticket, I’ve since learned that both Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson will be appearing on a subsequent panel at the same conference.
UPDATE: Apparently only holders of Georgetown University I.D.s are eligible to gain entry to any of the events. My apologies for faulty information, and for being a tease.
If and when there is a video of the conference, I’ll be sure to post a link.
The Conference Schedule
9:00 a.m. Welcome remarks by Chester Gillis, Dean, Georgetown University
Remarks by The Washington Post
9:05 a.m. Panel I: Impact on Ordinary People
Opening remarks by Eric Schlosser, Author
· Will Allen, Founder and CEO, Growing Power
· Greg Asbed / Lucas Benitez, Co-Founders, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
· Cmdr. Heidi Blanck, Division Chief, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
· Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
· Ronald M. Shaich, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board, Panera Bread
· Moderator: Mary Jordan, Editor, Washington Post Live
10:25 a.m. John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
10:30 a.m. Keynote Address by The Prince of Wales
11:00 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Panel II: Future of Agriculture
Opening remarks by Wendell Berry, Poet and Farmer
· Fedele Bauccio, Chief Executive, Bon Appétit Management Company
· Dennis Belcastro, Executive Vice President, Industry Affairs & Collaboration, Grocery Manufacturers Association
· Fred Kirschenmann, President, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
· Wes Jackson, President, The Land Institute
· Stephen McDonnell, CEO, Applegate Farms
· Moderator: Jane Black, Food Writer
12:45 p.m. Lunch
· Dan Barber, Chef and Owner, Blue Hill
· Sam Kass, White House Chef
· Moderator: Joe Yonan, Food and Travel Editor, The Washington Post
2:15 p.m. Panel III: Health and Nutrition
Opening remarks by Robert K. Ross, President, California Endowment
· Susan Crockett, Vice President, Senior Technology Officer, Health and Nutrition, General Mills
· Debra Eschmeyer, Outreach Director, National Farm to School Network
· Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, New York University
· Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Food, FDA
· Moderator: Mary Jordan, Editor, Washington Post Live
3:15 p.m. Panel IV: Future of International Food
Opening remarks by Patrick Holden, Director, Sustainable Food Trust
· Tim Beach, Professor of Environmental and International Affairs, Georgetown University
· Hans Herren, Chair, IAASTD
· Gary Hirshberg, CEO, Stonyfield Farms
· Vandana Shiva, Director, Navdanya
· Moderator: Laura Anderko, Professor, Georgetown University
4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks by U.S. Senator Jon Tester
Holy cow! Wendell Berry, Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser, and Wes Jackson? That’s my whole Politics of Food curriculum right there. Sometimes, I really miss living in DC.
Will the panel on “Health and Nutrition” be anything but promotion of conventional wisdom on diet and nutrition?
Good sense restricted to the ivory tower, how utterly academic…and in fact, princely.
“Impacts upon Ordinary People”. My, what a prosaic concept.
D.W. Sabin-
It was so academic, so princely, in fact, that even a Georgetown student couldn’t get one of their locally prepared, organic, eco-friendly boxed lunches, surplus of which, in the truest spirit of sustainability, were surely thrown out.
Wendell was great, but otherwise, you didn’t miss much.
Here is a link to Prince Charles’s speech at the conference. He is a long time proponent and practitioner of organic agriculture, local sourcing and food security.
http://bit.ly/mGbnpD
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