Special Event | Global Food+ 2021 | February 19 Session

Date and Time

February 19, 2021
03:00PM - 04:30PM EST

Location

Zoom (registration required)
Registration is required

40 Speed Talks at the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society

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Registration is required to attend this webinar. For more information on the event, including links to register, please visit the Global Food+ 2021 website.

GLOBAL FOOD+ 2021 is a joint webinar series run by researchers at Boston University, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts that is free and open to all. Four separate 90 minute sessions will take place on successive Fridays beginning February 12, 2021. Each session will feature ten rapid-fire 7 minute “speed talks,” given by top scholars and researchers working in the greater Boston area. The speakers will be presenting their most recent research findings on food, including its links to agriculture, health, the environment, and society.

The forty presenters will include scholars from Boston University, Clark University, Harvard, University of Massachusetts, MIT, Tufts, Wellesley, and the University of Vermont. Their work will showcase a variety of disciplines ranging from biology, chemistry, nutrition, engineering, and medicine, to economics, sociology, anthropology, history, law, public policy, and geography. Each of the four sessions will include concise presentations on ten entirely different topics, made by the researchers themselves.

The topics covered will vary from global to local. Among them will be the modern obesity crisis, food law and food waste, dietary diversity in Africa, farming and ecosystem health, meat consumption and veganism, mercury in fish, railroads and famine in India, and crop adaptations to global warming.

February 19 Session Speakers

  • Chintan Vaishnav, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jose Ordovas, Tufts University
  • Neil Gaikwad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Clark University
  • Peter Huybers, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Susan Roberts, Tufts University
  • Heather Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Henrik Selin, Boston University
  • Isabel Madzorera, Harvard University
  • Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University

Contact

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Registration Information

Register for the February 19 session or visit the conference website for full details.

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