[Plantsci] FW: Judith Carney on campus next week.

[Donna-Rae Marquez]

On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:

 

 

Hi Plant Science Faculty, Staff, Students and Postdocs, 

Please see email below from Professor Paul Robbins (Director of UA's School
of Geography and Development) as an introduction to Dr. Judith Carney, our
upcoming seminar speaker this Tuesday (October 18th).

Hope you can make it.

Regards,

Rod 

 

From: Robbins, Paul F - (robbins) [mailto:robbins at email.arizona.edu] 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:28 PM
To: SGDGRADS at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU; SGDFACULTY at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU;
sgdaffil at listserv.arizona.edu
Cc: Rod Wing
Subject: Judith Carney on campus next week.

 

Hi,

 

Next week, world-famous scholar and long-time friend of SGD - Judith Carney
- will be giving a talk on campus, hosted by The School of Plant Sciences. 

 

As you probably recall from her recent visit here in Geography, Carney's
research on trans-Atlantic food exchanges is rigorously historical,
theoretically sophisticated, and extremely widely-known ("Black Rice"
received a terrific revue in the NYTs). Her new book - "In the shadow of
slavery" - is a powerful extension of this earlier research.

 

The occasion of her visit is that our brothers and sisters in Plant Sciences
here on campus have recently generated a reference genome sequence of the O.
glaberrima genome - the West African Rice so central to Carney's story about
genetic and cultural exchange during the antebellum period.

 

That's a terrifically interesting connection across campus. Don't miss it!

 

Details of her talk are attached, but are appended here as well:

Dr. Judith Carney

Department of Geography

University of California at Los Angeles

 

"African Rice (Oryza glaberrima) in Historical Context"

 

Tuesday ~ October 18, 2011

4:00 - 4:50pm

Marley 230 

 

Hosted By

Dr. Rod Wing

http://ag.arizona.edu/pls/sems.html

 

I'm afraid I'll be out of town, but I would strongly recommend this to
everyone.

 

Paul

 

****************************************************

Paul Robbins
Professor and Director
School of Geography and Development

University of Arizona
Harvill Building, 453E
Tucson, AZ  85721
phone: (520) 626-7062
fax: (520) 621-2889
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~robbins/

 

 

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