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Luther S. and Dorothy Cecilia Cressman
Lecture in the Humanities
The Cressman lecture was inaugurated in 1997 with a generous bequest from former UO anthropology professor and archaeologist Luther S. Cressman. As is stated in the bequest, the lectureship's goal is “the presentation and illumination of fundamental humanities issues that confront . . . societies centrally occupied with science, technology, and business.”
Frances Moore Lappé
Monday, April 5, 2010
7:30 p.m.
EMU BallroomFrances Moore Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 17 books. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. In 1987 she received the Right Livelihood Award (a.k.a, the “Alternative Nobel.”)
Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered “the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined” by JM Hirsch of Associated Press; and the Women’s National Book Association chose it among 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World. In 2008, Gourmet Magazine named Lappé among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair and Julia Child) whose work has changed the way America eats.
For a complete list of previous Cressman lecturers, click here.
updated:: 10/6/09
