"We Are All Seeds: Food Security and Environmental Sustainability"

(Brennan Guth Memorial Lecture in Environmental Philosophy in collaboration with the Environmental Studies Program)

8:00 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Dennison Theatre

"Living Seed, Living Soil, and Earth Democracy"

3:10 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Gallagher Business Building Room 123

Please join us for 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. Shiva’s 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.

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.