This section lists upcoming presentations and appearances in 2008, followed below by a list of those completed in 2008, 2007, and 2006 (scroll down to see them). Some of the events are linked to press accounts, Internet interviews, or videos of the presentations. Press interviews, book reviews, and media appearances prior to May 2007 are provided on the foodpolitics website.

UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2008 and 2009

• December 21 Rancho La Puerta, Mexico (lecture)

• January 19  New York: Institute for Integrative Nutrition (lecture)
• January 21  Toronto: University of Toronto, Hart House (lecture)
• January 31    San Francisco: Union of Concerned Scientists Advisory Committee (panel)
• February 3  Philadelphia: U. Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program  (lecture)
• February 5  St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Cardiovascular Fellows Forum series (lecture)
• February 11   Columbia MO: Kansas City Healthy Kids (keynote and book talk)
• February 25 Los Angeles: NYU Alumni group (talk)
• February 26 Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Endowed Lecture
• March 12 New York: Hermann Biggs Society (lecture)
• March 16 New York: NYU Medical Center, medical class
• March 17 Toledo OH: University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs (lecture)
• March 24  New York: New York State Health Foundation (lecture)
• March 25  Cambridge, MA: MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program (lecture)
• April 1   State College PA: Pennsylvania State University Bioethics and Medical Humanities Program, Rock Ethics Institute 9^th Annual Lippin Ethics Lecture and Workshop
• April 2  State College PA: Pennsylvania State University, Lobby Talks program
• April 18    Richmond, VA: Richmond Forum (with Michael Pollan)
• May 1  New York: Gel 2008
• May 16  Portland OR: Oregon State University, Linus Pauling Institute (lecture)
• July 15  Fairbanks AL: University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions (lecture)
• November 11 Little Rock, AK: U. Central Arkansas, Honors College Challenge Week (keynote)

COMPLETED EVENTS, 2008

• January 16 Radio interview: Dynamic Health” host Allart, Vancouver, B.C.’s Co-op Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM.
• January 20 Interview with Lori Dorfman in the January issue of Health Promotion Practice.
• February 5, 8:00 a.m. Pediatric Ground Rounds, St. Vincent’s Hospital
• February 6 Biologique Foods radio, two podcast interviews with TJ Harrington in Bloomington, MN, one on food politics and the other on what’s in your food.
• February 12, California Endowment, Center for Health Communities, 5:30 p.m. Los Angeles
• February 21 NYU: Global Public Health Integrative Seminar (lecture)
• February 27 NY: Eating Liberally (panel on Twinkies Deconstructed)
• February 28, evening, Calhoun School, School and Society Initiative, NYC, lecture
• February 29, Princeton University Society of Fellows conference, lecture
• March 5, Santa Barbara, Orfalea Fund conference (Q and A with Morgan Spurlock) See under March 2008
• March 6, Ethics and Society program, Stanford University (lecture)
• March 7, Ethics and Society program, Stanford University (seminar)
• March 7 Homeland Security Daily Wire, Interview about food safety
• March 12 Interview with Adriana Velez on www.foodbuzz.com.
• March 12 Review of What to Eat by Adriana Velez on www.foodbuzz.com.
• March 14 Interview with Kim Campbell Thornton about Pet Food Politics at PetConnection.Com
• March 19, Rochester University, Pediatric Grand Rounds, Anne E Dyson Memorial lecture. See interview in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
• March 20 Interview with Amy Ramos in Miller-McCune magazine
• March 27 NYU: Sander Gilman Distinguished Scholar Lecture (panel), Silver 6-8
• April 4, Wesleyan, CT, Shasha seminar for human concerns (keynote–and here are the Wesleyan slides)
• April 8 Washington, DC: Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue conference (keynote)
• April 30, San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Provost’s Civic Engagement lecture
• May 1, Berkeley School of Public Health and Bay Area Slow Food (lecture)
• May 3 Napa, CA: Copia Center for Food and the Arts (panel)
• May 4, 10:00 a.m. Grace Cathedral speakers series (interview with Michael Bauer of the San Francisco Chronicle) San Francisco
• May 11, CBS Evening News interview on genetically modified food labeling, Figuring Out What’s In Your Food.
• May 17, NYU College of Nursing alumni conference (keynote)
• May 20 Science Tonight Cabaret with Ira Flatow, Kenny’s Castaways, 157 Bleecker @ Sullivan, NY, 6:30-8:30 (conversation)
• June 3, Copenhagen, Nordic Nutrition Conference (plenary). Here’s the pdf of my slides. And the lecture is posted on Morten Strunge Meyers’ blog site as well as on YouTube.
• June 5, NYU, Fales library panel on bottled water. See report from panelist Maureen Clancy. These sessions usually are videorecorded.
• June 9, Edible Garden at Ramapo College, New Jersey (lecture)
• June 17, Interview with University of California Press about Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (click on arrow under the book cover).
• June 30, Interview with Claudette Vaughan on Abolitionist-Online about Food Politics.
• July 1, Interview with All Things Considered on NPR about New York City’s trans-fat ban.
• July 7, Interview with Jennifer Salerno about “green” food choices in the online version of Food and Wine.
• July 14, University of Wisconsin National Wellness Institute, Stevens Point (keynote)
• August 14, Chautauqua NY, Food Week lecture
• August 24, Holistic Hound, 1510 Walnut, Berkeley (book talk, 4:00 p.m.)
• August 25, Noe Valley Pet Co, 1451 Church, San Francisco (book talk, 6:00 p.m.)
• August 26, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 595 Market, 2nd Floor, book interview with Davia Nelson, Kitchen Sisters (5:30 p.m.)
• August 26, interview with Jonathan, who blogs at WastedFood.com.
• August 27, Prevention Institute and The Bark, 221 Oak Street, Oakland, book talk 7:00 p.m.
• August 28, Napa CA, Master Gardeners of Napa County, Copia Center for Wine and the Arts, 500 1st Street, Napa (lecture, 10:00 a.m.)
• August 30, Slow Food Nation, San Francisco, panel on Building a New Food System: Policy and Planning (scroll down to get to video for this panel)
• September 6, Podcast with The Economist about Pet Food Politics
• September 9, European Food & Beverage Risk Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (keynote)
• September 10, Interview with Jill Richardson at UC Press blog site
• September 11 Parma, Italy: Barilla (lecture)
• September 16 New York: Global public health conference, Columbia U (panel)
• September 19 Interview with Michelle Nijhuis of Grist (Environmental News and Commentary) about Pet Food Politics.
• September 18, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Books, 7:00 p.m. (book talk)
• September 20, Public Health Advocacy Institute (keynote)
• September 22, Interview on WBUR Here and Now, Boston, on food safety
• September 24, Interview with Public Radio International on food safety (melamine and Chinese infant formula)
• September 24, Culinary Historians of New York (book talk)
• September 27, Borders Books, Triphammer Mall, Ithaca, 2:00 p.m. (book talk)
• September 26, Interview with Mother Jones, September/October 2008 issue
• September 27, Interview with Tracie Hotchner on Dog Talk about Pet Food Politics
• September 28 Interview with Toronto Star on pet foods and foods safety
• September 29 Video interview (snippets) with CBS5, KPIX on melamine in Chinese infant formula.
• September 29 Corby Kummer reviews Pet Food Politics for The Atlantic.com
• September 30 Marshal Zeringue posts page 99 of Pet Food Politics on his Page 99 Test site.
• September 30 Interview with Emily Kaiser on Food and Wine “Mouthing Off” blog site about Pet Food Politics
• October 1 Interview with Eating Well about Pet Food Politics (September/October issue)
• October 2  CBS News interview about high fructose corn syrup
• October 3, NYU, Feast and famine colloquium (book talk)
• October 4, NYU, Coalition for Healthy School Food conference (keynote)
• October 9, Washington, DC, Politics and Prose, 7:00 p.m. (book talk)
• October 16, Houston TX, food writers conference (talk)
• October 17, Interview with Adam Voiland of US News and World Report about 10 things the food industry doesn’t want you to know
• October 18, NYU Medical Center obesity course (lecture)
• October 20, Public Health Solutions award for policy and advocacy solutions
• October 21, NYU alumni, Greenwich CT (talk)
• October 21, Interview with Brittney Andres at Mother Jones (audio and print): Pet Food Politics
• October 29, Duluth, MN: College of St. Scholastica, Department of Peace and Justice lecture
• November 4, Interview with Time magazine about the implications of the pet food recall for melamine in China
• November 5, Ithaca: Hans Bethe speaker, Cornell University
• November 8, Green Festivals, Washington, DC convention center (lecture)
• November 13, Toronto, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture (plenary)
• November 14 NYU: Dumplings and dynasties: regional cuisine and food culture of China conference
• November 15 Interview with Evan Kleinman on Good Food, KCRW (Los Angeles) on Pet Food Politics (scroll down to 11:50 a.m.)
• November 17, Bulldog Reporter Food and Beverage PR Summit, noon, Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street (keynote)
• November 20 Video interview with CBS about the effects of the economic downturn on food choices
• November 21 Interview with Meet the Bloggers about food politics (done via computer camera)
• November 23, Kennedy School “PAPSAC” (talk on Pet Food Politics)
• November 23 Interview with Jane Brody, New York Times, about home cooking
• November 26 Interview with Laura Flinders (and Arun Gupta and Peter Hoffman), Grit TV.  It’s on how to eat well without going broke, and starts with a Monty Python clip on Spam.
• December 1 Interview with Metro New York about the disappointing results of recent vitamin trials
• December 2 New York: Mid-Manhattan Library (public lecture)
• December 3, New York: DH Shaw Co, noon (lecture)
• December 4 Hyde Park: Culinary Institute of America,Carroll F. Dooley lecture

2007 EVENTS

• December 12, radio interview HealthTalk Live: How safe is our food? (click on December 12 entry)
• December 6, 5:00 p.m. Lecture in honor of Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore
• November 29, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand Ministries of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries: national summit of primary industry business leaders, lecture.
• November 17, 1:30 p.m. Institute for Integrative Nutrition, lecture, Time-Warner Center.
• November 14, noon: NYU Sociology Dept, Puck Building (Lafayette at Houston), 4th Floor conference room, lecture
• November 14, New York, 9:00 p.m. Food Theater Project with Anna Lappe. This follows a performance of Milk n’ Honey at the Lightbox, 80 Greenwich at Rector. And here’s a photo from the event.
• November 12, 6:30 p.m. Panel discussion on the farm bill, Wagner School of Public Service, Puck Building (Lafayette at Houston), 2nd floor. Here is Wild Green Yonder’s take on it.
• November 5, evening, New York, Princeton Club, NYU Alumni Advisory Council, Lecture.
• November 1, 2:00 p.m., New Haven, Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Lecture
• October 30, Albany, NY, Desmond Hotel, WIC Association of New York State, Conference on Childhood Obesity. Keynote lecture on food politics.
• October 19, 9:00 a.m. Introductory talk at the conference on Mediterranean diets, Casa Italiana, NYU.
• October 18, 4:00 p.m. Presentation to the Experimental Cuisine Collective, NYU: lecture on the pet food recall and pet food tasting (click on Monthly Workshops, then October 18, 2007).
• October 16, 7:00 p.m. New York, Cosmopolitan Club, 122 E. 66th Street, Library Committee lecture on What to Eat.
• October 11, interview on food issues with Jimbo Hoyer, an avatar on Second Life.
• October 10, evening. Ithaca, NY, Cornell Cooperative Extension conference on nutrition/agriculture/obesity connection, keynote address.
• October 2, 6:30 p.m. New Delhi, India, Navdanya Center, 8th Annual Howard Lecture on the occasion of Gandhi’s birthday).
• September 23, Interview in Haaretz with Shahar Smooha (in Hebrew, but the cartoon needs no translation).
• September 19, Norman, OK. University of Oklahoma President’s Office and Honors College Lecture.
• September 15, Dishing Up Nutrition radio interview on food politics (interviewer is Darlene Kvist).
• September 6, Canadian Broadcasting Corp: CBC Calling. Interview with Chef Michael Smith.
• September 5 Scientific American, Podcast with Steve Mirsky. Because I am a Paulette Goddard professor at NYU, he sends along an article he wrote about Einstein’s experience with this gorgeous movie star.
• August issue of Food Industry magazine (Netherlands): Interview with Lucien Joppen (in English)
• August 13 Global Public Radio, Wake Up America interview with Tina Volpe
• August 10, NPR Science Friday, panel on the farm bill with Michael Pollan and Sandor Ellix Katz
• August 10, Web MD interview about organic choices
• August 4, Chicago, 9:15-10:15 a.m. YearlyKos Convention. Panel on food blogging.
• July 25: CNBC TV Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire (interview)
• July 25. Radio interview on KCRW on How Safe is America’s Food Supply?
• July 7, 1:15 p.m. Adelaide, Australia Festival of Ideas. Boynton Hall. Lecture and panel presentations.
• June 28, 7pm - 9pm, Philadelphia. Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St. Lecture on What to Eat.
• June 25, Charlie Rose science series: obesity and nutrition (with Paul Nurse, David Ludwig, Rudy Leibel, and Gina Kolata).
• June 16 Ithaca, NY: Borders Books (reading and book signing)
• June 14 NYU: Fales Library Critical Topics series (panel)
• June 11 Amherst: University of Massachusetts Tastes of the World 13th Annual Chef Culinary Conference (plenary lecture)
• June 9: Splendid Table radio interview
• June 7, New York: March of Dimes National Communications Advisory Council (mythbusters on pregnancy–see podcast)
• June 7 NYU: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (film showing and panel presentation)
• May 21, Denver. Denver Forum talk about What to Eat (see story in the Denver Post).
• May 19, NPR Weekend Edition: eating healthfully on Food Stamps at $21 per week.
• May 17, Monterey. Keynote address to conference on sustainable food at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (see Los Angeles Times story).
• May 14, Vancouver. Lecture and under the auspices of Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks (see photo).
• May 8, Mountain View, CA. Google staff lecture (see hour-long Video or 8-minute edit on YouTube).
• May 8, San Francisco, CA. City Arts & Lectures conversation with Michael Pollan.
• April 11, San Francisco, CA. Commonwealth Club with Davia Nelson of Kitchen Sisters.

2006 EVENTS

• Jan 26 Pacific Grove, CA: Ecological Farming Association, Pacific Grove (keynote)
• Feb 7 Berkeley, CA: Culinary Historians of Northern California (lecture)
• Feb 14 UC Berkeley: School of Public Health Research Forum (lecture)
• Feb 17 Manhattan, KS: Healthy Foods, Healthy Farms conference, Kansas Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Kansas State (keynote)
• Feb 18 Manhattan, KS: Healthy Foods, Healthy Farms conference, Kansas Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Kansas State (plenary lecture)
• Feb 23 UC Berkeley: School of Public Health Student Association, SuperSize Me! (presentation)
• Feb 24 UC Berkeley: UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program (lecture)
• March 3 UC Berkeley: School of Public Health, Community Health Forum (lecture/interview)
• March 7 UC Berkeley: Berkeley Public Health Alliance, Free Speech Movement Cafe Series (lecture)
• March 21 UC San Francisco: Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment, Grand Rounds (lecture)
• March 30 Berkeley: American Epidemiologial Society, Alexander D. Langmuir lecture
• April 1 Seattle: International Association of Culinary Professionals (panel)
• April 3 UC Berkeley: graduate journalism class (lecture)
• April 4 Oakland: Kaiser Permanente education staff (lecture)
• April 4 Berkeley: Alameda County Food Bank (lecture)
• April 5 UC Berkeley: Graduate School of Public Policy forum (lecture)
• April 6 UC Berkeley: Graduate School of Public Policy science policy class (lecture)
• April 11 UC Berkeley: Graduate students in cell and molecular biology forum (lecture)
• April 13 UC Berkeley: CNN Town Hall (panel)
• April 24 UC Berkeley: Graduate School of Journalism (interview/conversation)
• April 25 UC Berkeley: School of Public Health Dean’s Colloquium (lecture)
• April 27 San Francisco: City Arts & Letters (lecture)
• April 30 New York: Nutrition and Health conference, Columbia Center for Integrative Medicine (public lecture)
• May 1 New York: Nutrition and Health conference, Columbia Center for Integrative Medicine (keynote)
• May 1 New York: Cooking by the Book (presentation)
• May 3 NYU: Fales Library (lecture and reading)
• May 10 Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore and Community Supported Agriculture program (lecture and reading)
• May 12 Albuquerque, NM: Obesity symposium, U. New Mexico (keynote)
• May 13 Napa, CA: Copia Center for Food and Wine (interview/conversation)
• May 15 Sacramento, CA: California Nutrition Council conference (keynote)
• May 15 Marin County, CA: Kaiser Permanente (lecture)
• May 17 San Francisco: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Live Oak parents’ group (lecture)
• May 22 Florence, Italy: NYU conference on Mediterranean diets (lecture)
• June 4 Shelburne, VT: University of North Carolina Food Systems Leadership Institute (keynote)
• June 5 Shelburne, VT: Vermont FEED (school food and nutrition program) benefit (lecture and book signing)
• June 5 Shelburne, VT: Food Systems Leadership Institute (lecture)
• June 12 New York: 92nd Street Y (lecture)
• June 20 Washington, DC: Politics and Prose (lecture and reading)
• July 14 Ithaca, NY: Cornell Food Industry Management Program (lecture)
• July 15 Ithaca, NY: Borders Books (reading)
• Sept 14 Washington, DC: National Food Policy Conference, Food Policy Institute, Consumer Federation of America, National Press Club (keynote)
• Sept 16 New York: Union Square Farmers Market (panel)
• Sept 21 San Francisco: Metropolitan Club Women’s Program (lecture)
• Sept 23 San Francisco: Ferry Building Farmer’s Market (lecture and reading)
• Sept 24 Monte Rio, CA: Sonoma Food and Wine Festival (panel)
• Sept 26 New York: City Health Department press conference (remarks)
• Sept 26 New York: Murray’s Cheese (lecture)
• Oct 3 NYU: Third North Residence Hall lecture series (lecture)
• Oct 4 Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences agricultural education conference (lecture)
• Oct 5 Baltimore: New Hope Media, Natural Products Expo
• Oct 11 Saginaw, MI: Delta College, President’s Speaker (keynote)
• Oct 15 New York: NY Times book fair (panel)
• Oct 18 New York: New York Hall of Science Volunteer Committee (lecture)
• Oct 19 NYU: Fales Library Critical Topics series (panel)
• Oct 22 Pocantico Hills, NY: Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture (lecture)
• Oct 27 Seattle: Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Institutional Advancement (keynote).
• Oct 27 Seattle: Elliot Bay Bookstore (lecture and book signing)
• Nov 4 Boston: Public Health Advocacy Institute, Legal Approaches conference (keynote)
• Nov 14 Stockholm: Stockholm Consumer Cooperative Society (keynote)
• Nov 16 New York: Fast Food Nation press conference (speaker)
• Nov 17 Princeton: Princeton Environmental Institute, Center for Human Values, Conference on food ethics (plenary)
• Nov 18 New York: Institute for Integrative Nutrition (plenary)
• Nov 19 Boston: Kennedy School food industry conference (plenary)
• Nov 28 Albany: New York State Department of Health, Childhood Obesity Summit (keynote)
• Nov 29 Toronto: University of Toronto Edna W. Park Lecture
• Dec 7 NYU: Residential Community lecture series (lecture)
• Dec 10 New York: Institute for Integrative Nutrition (plenary)
• Dec 13 NYU: Faculty critical topics series (speaker)