Terra Madre as culture, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration: Lessons learned from Turtle Island and Torino | March 13, 10-11:30am
Looking forward to his ninth Terra Madre e Salone del Gusto this September in Torino, Italy, ecoactivist and James Beard Award recipient Jim Embry returns to Ohio State and the Department of Comparative Studies [1] [2] to share his lived experience as a longstanding champion of the international Slow Food Movement and his work with Slow Food USA. In particular, he will frame his remarks around foundations of the comparative studies tradition – culture, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration – as a way to understand how we are complicit and active agents in a food system that creates opportunities for us to respond and react to. The time depth that Jim brings with him to the table, comparing his experience at each subsequent trip to Terra Madre, will also offer a means of reflection of how conversations at various spatial scales have changed over time.