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Downtown Lecture Series: Food

Five FREE lectures spotlighting "food" and how it shapes our lives, our community, and our environment. Beginning October 15th at 6:30 p.m.

Downtown Lecture Series - Food Spotlight

Every Wednesday at 6:30 Beginning October 15th See it in person free at the Fox Theatre or watch it online here on azpm.org

The University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the “The People College.” We study people and their connections with each other, their pasts, and the world around them to better understand the complexity that shapes their daily lives.

Last year the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences launched its first annual Downtown Lecture Series focusing on "happiness." Due to the immense interest demonstrated by the public, the series has returned this fall spotlighting "food" and how it shapes our lives, our community, and our environment. The lectures take place at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday evening beginning October 15th at the Fox Tucson Theatre. By holding event downtown as opposed to the UA campus, we are supporting and promoting Tucson’s urban core as a vibrant and intellectually engaging place to live, work, play and learn.

Arizona Public Media will also livestream all five lectures for free here on azpm.org.

The series consists of five lectures by UA faculty members:

CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES OF FOOD
October 15, 2014
Diana Liverman, Regent’s Professor and Co-Director of the UA’s Institute of the Environment

TUCSON: CITY OF GASTRONOMY, HUB FOR FOOD DIVERSITY
October 22, 2014
Gary Nabhan, UA’s W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems

WE EAT WHAT WE ARE
October 29, 2014
Maribel Alvarez, UA Professor of Anthropology and Program Director of Tucson Meet Yourself

EDIBLE ROMAN EMPIRE
November 5, 2014
Emma Blake, UA Professor of Anthropology

FOOD FOR PLEASURE, VITALITY, AND HEALTH
November 12, 2014
Victoria Maizes, Co-Director of the UA’s Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

To learn more about the Downtown Lecture series, click here.

Can't make it downtown to watch the lecture in person? AZPM will livestream all five lectures here, with the first lecture airing at 6:30 p.m. on October 15th. Mark your calendars!

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