On Friday, February 16, the Department of Comparative Studies and campus-wide partners invite you to join us in hearing and learning from eco-activist farmer Jim Embry!
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A longtime civil rights activist, Jim is also an active participant of the Slow Food movement and was most recently awarded a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award this past June for his 60+ years of food system activism and visionary leadership. Jim will be engaging with various members of the Ohio State community on prior to and following his lecture, sharing pathways to a sustainable future which frames our food and agriculture system as the fulcrum point for social transformation and the foundation of developing sustainable communities. These overlapping and interconnected pathways include: Earth Centric/Woman Centric; Indigenous Wisdom; George Washington Carver; Youth/Art/Hip Hop; Seeds/Terra Madre; Transformative Vision.
Jim has been researching, speaking, and writing about George Washington Carver the last 12-15 years. Moreover, he has personal family connections with Carver: “I have personal family connections with Carver that go back to the 1900s with my great grandfather, DB Ballew, who brought Carver to Richmond Kentucky three times along with WEB DuBois and Ida B. Wells." Rooted in his long-standing engagement with the land, we anticipate that Jim's lecture will masterfully weave themes that are certainly relevant in today's ever-changing world, including but not limited to cultivating care for the land and each other; diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within and outside of the food system; and what we can learn from the past to imagine a prosperous tomorrow.
This event is co-sponsored by the School of Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Anthropology, the Humanities Institute, and the Department of African American and African Studies.
