King Corn
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 07 Nov 2007 at 8:00 pm – LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210
Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf will discuss King Corn, Woolf's documentary that follows college friends Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney as they grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil, and then try to follow it through the food system. The panel discussion follows a screening of the 80-minute film at 6:30 pm in the LeBaron Hall Auditorium.Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Leopold Center
- Practical Farmers of Iowa
- Sociology
- Sustainable Agriculture Program
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
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Lecture Etiquette
- Stay for the entire lecture and the brief audience Q&A. If a student needs to leave early, he or she should sit near the back and exit discreetly.
- Do not bring food or uncovered drinks into the lecture.
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