The Wallace Stegner Center’s 25th annual symposium, to be held on Thursday and Friday. March 19 and 20, 2020, will address “Food and the Environment: Resilient and Equitable Food Security for the West.” The Symposium will focus on the connections between food and the environment through two lenses. First, it will examine issues involved in promoting the simultaneous resilience of both food supplies and native ecosystems, such as the intersections of food production and water supplies. Second, it will explore emerging and evolving ways to ensure equitable access to appropriate food for diverse western communities (e.g., ranching communities, tribes), including innovative approaches to making healthy food available to all residents along the Wasatch Front. Jessica Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Global Food & Agriculture Policy & Ethics, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, will deliver the Wallace Stegner Lecture on the day before the symposium.
Jason Robison, a Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law, will join the Stegner Center as the 15th annual Stegner Center Young Scholar on November 7 and 8, 2019. He will deliver a Young Scholar Lecture at the College of Law on November 7 on “Beyond Bears Ears: Postcolonialism & Grand Canyon National Park” and a CLE presentation at Holland & Hart on November 8 on “Downstream of Montana v. Wyoming: Equity, Tribes & the Yellowstone River Compact.”
The Stegner Center will host a variety of speakers for its noon-hour speaker series. Speakers include the following:
- “The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation and Combatting Violent Extremism” with Peter A. Walker, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
- “Reasons for Hope: An Afternoon with Jane Goodall“
- “Air Pollution, Environmental Injustice, and the Well-Being of Children” with Sara Grineski, Professor, Sociology and Environmental & Sustainability Studies, University of Utah
- State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands with Michael S. Johnson, Assistant Director & Chief Legal Counsel, and Keli Beard, Legal Counsel, Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration
- Utah’s Natural Resources with Brian Stead, Executive Director, Utah Department of Natural Resources
- “The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, and a Race to Save the World” with Chris Linder, Conservation Photographer, Filmmaker, and Lecturer
- Water Banking with Emily E. Lewis, Attorney, Clyde Snow & Sessions
- Gold King Mine Disaster with Cliff Villa, School of Law, University of New Mexico
For program details, including times and locations, see the Stegner Center online calendar at https://www.law.utah.edu/events/category/wallace-stegner-center/