Food, Power, and Eugenics in Shenandoah National Park 10/29/24 | 5:30 PM | Hillel Multipurpose Room
Join Campus Kitchen and the Sociology and Anthropology Department at W&L for a discussion with W&L Scholar in Residence, Glenn Davis Stone, and photographer Richard Knox Robinson on Tuesday 10/19 at 5:30 PM in the Hillel Multipurpose room. This discussion will highlight the history of Shenandoah National Park and how foodways were a part of the process of displacing residents of what would eventually become the park.
Thank you to the Sociology and Anthropology Deparment for their sponsorship of this event!
About Glenn Davis Stone:Glenn Stone is an anthropologist and environmental scientist (and recovering archaeologist) who specializes in food production and agriculture (both industrial and sustainable), biotechnology in food and agriculture (GMO crops), politics of technology, indgenous knowledge and decision-making, food studies and science studies.
He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a Weatherhead Fellow at the School of Advanced Research, president of the Anthropology & Environment Society, and winner of the Morley Alumni Science Medal at Western Reserve Academy (a school out of which he was thrown).
His current research projects concern the uses and perceptions of CRISPR gene editing, the history of industrial agriculture and the Green Revolution, the science of sustainable food production, and eugenics both past and present.
He served on the faculty of Columbia University in NY (Asst. and Assoc. Professor) and Washington University in St. Louis (Assoc. and Full Professor), followed by a semi-retirement stint at Sweet Briar College (Research Professor of Environmental Science) before coming to Washington & Lee University as Scholar in Residence.
His primary home is a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Amherst County, Virginia, with his wife Priscilla and Bluetick Coonhound Lulu.
About Richard Knox Robinson:
Richard Knox Robinson is an award winning photographer and filmmaker based near Charlottesville, Virginia. His first film, "The Beekeepers," premiered at Sundance in 2009 in the New Frontiers Shorts Program and went on to screen in Toronto and Telluride, winning Best Short Documentary at The Atlanta Film Festival. His first feature film, "Rothstein's First Assignment " was nominated for the special jury prize at Seattle's International Film Festival in 2011 and screened Internationally including the Watch Docs Film Festival in Warsaw Poland. It was featured in Time's LightBox.
His photographs have been featured in over 30 publications including, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Time, Communication Arts, American Photography and National Geographic Traveler.
In 2012 he was awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and is currently a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait gallery.
He teaches filmmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCUArts) and has taught at the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University and Randolph College.
His films are represented by Cinema Guild of New York