Events

• Sponsored by Deciphering Life’s Languages
• Date:  September 25, 2012 – 12 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room, Teachout Price
• Description:  “Feeding and (Bio)fueling a Crowded World,” also scheduled discussions with courses

“World Hunger:  Can We Feed the World?”:  Lecture by Olivier De Schutter

• Sponsored by the Center for Engaged Ethics
• Date:  September 11, 2012 – 12 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom with a book signing to follow

Annual Ethics Teach-In: Food & Hunger

• Sponsored by the Center for Engaged Ethics
• Date:  Thursday, September 13, 2012 – 12 – 1:30 p.m., Dining Hall (or outside Dining Hall)
• Purpose:  Foster semi-formal engagement with ethics theme across the whole curriculum and through interdisciplinarity.  Model for students the multiplicity of ways in which ethical issues are raised in any discipline and across life around the central theme of food and hunger.  Inform and engage students in specific ethical issues surrounding food and hunger.

Campus Day

• Sponsored by the Office of Civic Engagement with the Center for Engaged Ethics support
• Date:  September 20, 2012 – All Day
• Description:  Campus Day fosters service to the community for our students, by devoting an entire day to service on and off campus.

Hunger at Home: Lecture by Anupama Joshi, Author of Food Justice

• Sponsored by Center for Engaged Ethics
• Date: October 30, 2012 – 12 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room, Teachout Price with a book signing to follow

Lecture by Author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation,  Ruth Ozeki

• Sponsored by the Center for Literature and Medicine and the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature
• Date:  October 10, 2012 – 6:30 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom with a book signing to follow

Spring Semester

Lecture by Author of Four Fish, Paul Greenberg

• Sponsored by the Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages and the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature
• Date:  February 5, 2013 – 7 p.m., Pritchard Room, Hiram College Library
• Description:  Other community reading program events TBD and part of the Science Reads program

Lecture by John Peck from the University of Akron

• Sponsored by the Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages
• Date:  February 14, 2013 - 12 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room, Teachout Price
• Description:  Title:  “Dam Science on the Cuyahoga River, Ohio” – in conjunction with the Science Reads program

Lecture by Eugene C. Braig IV from The Ohio State University Extension

• Sponsored by the Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages
• Date:  February 21, 2013 - 7 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room, Teachout Price
• Description:  Tentative Title:  “Impact of Invasive Species on Lake Erie Fisheries” – in conjunction with the Science Reads program

Lecture by Author of You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef, Joel Salatin

• Sponsored by the Environmental Studies department
• Date:  March 14, 2013

Lecture by Paul Freedman a Professor of History at Yale University

• Sponsored by: Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature
• Date:  March 28, 2013 – 12 p.m., Pritchard Room, Hiram College Library
• Description:   Dr. Freedman will speak about spices in the medieval period.