Science with Passion & a Moral Compass A Symposium Honoring John Vandermeer

Theresa Ong, Senay Yitbarek, Doug Jackson and Dave Allen

University of Michigan, NOAA, Middleburry College,

"An insatiable appetite for curiosity: a celebration of 'Outside of the Box' in honor of John Vandermeer"

David Alonso

CEAB-CSIC (Catalonia, Spain),

"Will dietary shifts solve current global environmental crisis?"

Catherine Badgley

University of Michigan,

"Transforming the food system"

Doug Boucher

Union of Concerned Scientists,

"Scientists and theories of progressive change"

Iñigo Granzow De la Cerda

Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain),

"The role of matrix characteristics on beta-diversity of bryophyte and perennial seed-plant metacommunities in arid scrubland fragments"

Jahi Chappell

Institute for Trade and Agriculture Policy,

"The passion and the moral compass: strange attractors and a phase-space of political ecology"

Luis F. Chaves

Nagasaki University (Nagasaki, Japan),

"The dynamics of latifundia formation"

Patrick Christie

University of Washington,

"Generating knowledge for action: dilemmas and opportunities"

Rob Colwell

University of Connecticut,

"Contingency and determinism in biology"

Naim Edwards

Voices for Earth Justice,

"From nature's matrix to urban agroecologist"

Phillis Engelbert

The Lunch Room,

"Bio 101"

Diarmaid Ó Foighil

University of Michigan,

Welcome

Deborah Goldberg

University of Michigan,

"John Vandermeer, the Consummate Ecologist"

Joseph Graves

UNC Greensboro,

"Greater is their sin: biological determinism in the age of genomics"

Bruce Ferguson, Paul Foster and Daniel M. Griffith

ECOSUR (Chiapas, Mexico),

"The temporal dimension of biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes"

Shalene Jha, Stacy Philpott, Heidi Liere, Brenda Lin

University of Texas at Austin, University of California Santa Cruz, Reed College and CSIRO (Australia),

"Biodiversity, sustainability, and ecosystem services in urban agricultural landscapes"

Krista McGuire

Columbia University,

"Fungal (not ant) responses to human land use in the tropics"

Helda Morales

ECOSUR (Chiapas, Mexico),

"Women in science in Latin America: politics, power and the influence of Vandermeer"

Luis Garcia Barrios and Juana Cruz Morales

ECOSUR (Chiapas, Mexico),

"Azteca Chess: an educational tool to explore the emergence of autonomous pest control in Mesoamerican shade coffee"

Ginger Nickerson

The University of Vermont,

"John, the Bluefields group, and participatory action research: modeling love through action"

Mercedes Pascual

University of Chicago,

"Some reflections on critical transitions for John"

Margaret Reeves

Pesticide Action Network,

"Science and the farm labor movement"

Peter Rosset

ECOSUR (Chiapas, Mexico) and La Via Campesina Technical Team,

"Social movements, agroecology and food sovereignty"

Javier Ruiz

"Changes in tropical forest diversity"

Ed Russell

The University of Kansas,

"Capitalism, environment, and technology"

Scott Schneider

Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America,

"The use and limits of science in protecting workers from occupational hazards"

Brian Schultz

Hampshire College,

"Teaching sustainable ag in a liberal art context"

Gerry Smith

University of Michigan,

Welcome

John Soluri

Carnegie Mellon University,

"Academia's matrix: migrations, mutations, and mutts"

Eduardo Somarriba

Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Education (Turrialba, Costa Rica),

"Age-yield-planting density relationships in deciding when to rehabilitate or renovate a cocoa/coffee plantation"

Gerald Urquardt

Michigan State University,

"Ecological, social, and political dynamics along Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast"

John Vandermeer

University of Michigan,

"Science with Passion and a Moral Compass"

Angus Wright

California State University, Sacramento,

"History as a companion plant for agroecology"

Susan Wright

University of California Santa Cruz,

"Knowledge suppressed/knowledge generated: JV and agbiotech vs agroecology"

Katherine Yih

Harvard University,

"The New World Agriculture Group"