Where: Bldg 18 Level 3 Open Area
Description
What is WEPs greatest natural resource? The people! WEP is an opportunity to network. Make the most of this natural resource by talking to some of the most experienced, innovative, passionate people at WEP - the Speakers! Often it is the chance encounters with someone new that lead to new ideas, projects, perspectives and ventures and these speakers merit your undivided attention. This event is a unique and privileged opportunity, to meet some of the great names in the fields of science, technology, business and entrepreneurship. The Speaker for this event will be announced by December 8, 2013
Christine Hastorf
Christine Hastorf focuses on social life, political change, agricultural production, foodways, and the methodologies that lead to a better understanding of the past through the study of plant-use. She has written on agricultural production, cooking practices and what shifts in these suggest about social relations, gender relations surrounding plant use, the rise of complex society, political change and the symbolic use of plants in the legitimation of authority, fuel use and related symbolism, and plant domestication as part of social identity construction and ritual and social identity. She is particularly interested in wild plant use as compared to domesticates, identifying the stages in plant processing, their participation in social construction, and especially their participation and reflection of the symbolic and the political, in addition to the playing out of the concept of culture in the natural world. http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/christine-hastorf
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