Special Events

 

Along with ongoing projects like the LGS/GSG Sustainability Ambassadors program and the Student Sustainability Leaders Summit (SSLS), the GSG organizes and runs one-off initiatives such as talks, film screenings, outings and field visits, and socials. Below is a list of our upcoming events. Sign up to the GSG member ListServ and Newsletter to make sure you get the latest events news directly in your inbox.

 

Food Chains Film Screening

Tuesday, March 24

Harland Cinema, DUC

5 pm
GSG is proud to participate in the tour of Food Chains, produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser. Released last fall in theaters nationwide, the film explores the human element in our food system and reveals the impact of the US supermarket industry's complicity in perpetuating human rights violations of workers at the base of the agricultural supply chain. Check out the trailer here.

 

Preserving Now Canning Workshop

Wednesday, March 25

Few Hall Demo Kitchen

4-5:30pm
Join Lyn Deardorf from Preserving Now in a short workshop on 'canning'! The first workshop will be Apple Butter. The $15 cost includes all supplies (jars, seasonal food, spices, sugar, vinegar, etc.) plus recipe handout and canning guide necessary for a “hands-on” class. Space is limited; Emory students only.  Payment reserves your spot. Sign up and payment information available here.

Coffee Hour with Myriam Paredes

Wednesday, April 1

Cox Computing Center, Classroom C

2pm
Join us for an informal Coffee Hour conversation with Ecuadorian sociologist Myriam Paredes Chaucas with extensive interest, research and work on “food sovereignty” in Central and South America.If you'd like to attend, please RSVP here.

 

Read more about her on her brief bio below:
 
Born and reared on a farm in the highlands of Ecuador, Myriam Paredes Chauca is a rural sociologist with extensive research experience in Central and South America for over 15 years. Her work combines theory and practice in engaging the multiple dimensions and expressions of “food sovereignty”, a concept that is becoming enshrined in the national constitutions of several Latin American countries as well as increasingly central to global scientific debates on food systems and food security.
 
With her husband, Stephen Sherwood, Dr. Paredes owns and runs an organic farm near Quito, Ecuador, where they are both involved in supporting rural people’s movements and conservation efforts.
 
Dr. Paredes is a professor at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Ecuador, where she also coordinates an MSc. Program on Rural and Territorial Development.  She holds a PhD in Rural Sociology from Wageningen University in The Netherlands, an MSc in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems, and a BSc in Agronomy at the Pan-American School of Agriculture (El Zamorano) in Honduras.