Public lectures and media
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 AND RECENT EVENTS IN 2008
Upcoming in 2008
- May 17, NYU College of Nursing alumni conference (keynote)
- May 20 Science Tonight Show with Ira Flatow, 4 W. 43rd St, NY, 6:30-8:30 (conversation)
- June 3, Copenhagen, Nordic Nutrition Conference (keynote)
- June 9, Edible Garden at Ramapo College, New Jersey (talk)
- July 14, University of Wisconsin National Wellness Institute, Stevens Point (keynote)
- August 14, Chautauqua NY, Food Week lecture
- August 26, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco
- August 28, Napa CA, Master Gardeners of Napa County, Copia, lecture
- August 30, Slow Food Nation, San Francisco
- September 9, European Food & Beverage Risk Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (keynote)
- September 11 Parma, Italy: Barilla (lecture)
- October 9, Georgia Department of Education School Nutrition Directors’ conference (keynote), Athens, GA
- October 18, NYU Medical Center obesity course (lecture)
- October 29, Duluth, MN: College of St. Scholastica, Department of Peace and Justice (keynote)
- November 8, Green Festivals, Washington, DC (talk)
- November 14 NYU: Dumplings and dynasties: regional cuisine and food culture of China conference (panel)
- November 18, Rancho La Puerta, Mexico (talks)
- December 2 New York: Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 5th Ave (40th St), 6:30-8:00, lecture
- December 4 Hyde Park: Culinary Institute of America, 2:00-4:00, lecture
- 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 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)
- 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.
2007
- 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.
- 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)




