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Lecture on “Food Politics: The Perfect Storm” in the Museum’s Generation Fit series.  6:30 – 7:30, followed by book signing.  The Newark Museum is at 49 Washington Street.  The event is free and open to the public.

Before heading over to Newark, I’m participating in a panel discussion at the Fales Library at NYU (70 Washington Square South) on “24/7 Food: The New Role of Food
in American Life,” moderated by Clark Wolf.  Other panelists are Matthew Derr, President, Sterling College; Kim Hastreiter, Paper Magazine; and Allen Salkin, Author, From Scratch: Inside the Food Network.

The McElmurry Lectureship on the Ethics of Eating, 7:30 p.m. at Andrews U.  Here’s student reporter Tim Huck’s take on it.

I am moderating a forum for candidates for Mayor of New York City at The New School’s Tishman auditorium, 66 West 12th Street.  It runs from 6 – 8 p.m. (Doors open at 5 p.m.).

The Forum is co-hosted by the Brooklyn Food Coalition, City Harvest, Food Bank For New York City, Food Chain Workers Alliance, Food Studies program at The New School for Public Engagement, Food Systems Network NYC, Hunger Action Network NYS, Just Food, New York City Coalition Against Hunger, New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College, NRDC Action Fund, and Public Health Solutions.

These are joined by about 70 partner organizations, and the list is growing.

I get to ask the questions.  What fun!

The forum will be live streamed over the Internet. Click here for additional details.

New Directions in the Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition: A Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen.  Cornell University, Statler Hotel Amphitheater.  The conference begins at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast and ends with a reception the following day with remarks by professor Pinstrup-Andersen at 2:25 p.m.  For the schedule and details, click here.

My joint contribution with Malden Nesheim is from 1:40-2:00 p.m. on “the internationalization of the obesity epidemic: the case of sugar-sweetened sodas.”

I’m giving the 27th Annual Fae Golden Kass lecture for women in the medical sciences.  4:00 p.m. This is at the Carl E. Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston MA.  Book Signing and Reception to follow.

Keynote on symposium theme: Nutrition from Science to Policy.  Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall,  UC Berkeley, 9:10 a.m.

Common hour talk to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute leadership academy for undergraduates, 11:30 a.m.  Here’s a report.  And here’s the video of the lecture.

Opening address to the 70th anniversary symposium on poverty, inequality, and welfare policies, 9:00 a.m.

Prolongacion Paseo de la Reforma 880  Lomas de Santa Fe, 01219 Mexico City, Federal District.