Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Richard Manning
Wednesday, 22 Feb 2006 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Richard Manning is a newspaper editor and investigative journalist based in Montana and southern Idaho whose articles have been widely published in leading publications around the world. He is the author of seven important books on environmental issues, including: Against the Grain: How Agriculture Hijacked Civilization; Food's Frontier; Inside Passage; One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot; Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie; and Last Stand: Logging, Journalism and the Case for Humility. He has won numerous prestigious awards for investigative journalism and science and environmental writing. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - World Port will perform on the wind syntheiszer and guitar.This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Agrestal
- Bioethics Program
- College of LAS, Miller Lecture Fund
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution, and Organisimal Biology
- English Department
- Environmental Sciences
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Greenlee School of Journalism
- History Department
- Landscape Architecture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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