Tuesday May 14th, 5.30 PM
Governing Through Food and Health - Yazid Barhoush and Dr.Rami Zurayk
(Speakers will be online)
Yazid Barhoush is a Master of Public Health (MPH) graduate from Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health and is currently a Visiting Global Health Scholar at the Office of Global Health there. He is a recipient of several awards, including the Davis United World College Scholarship, Earlham Achievement Merit Scholarship, Ackerman-Nicholson Fund, MPower Scholarship, and the Roothbert Fund Fellowship. His work has been published in the Health and Human Rights Journal, Global Public Health Journal, Oxford Human Rights Hub, and Ecology and Evolution Journal.
Dr. Rami Zurayk is a professor of Ecosystem Management at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and the interim director of the Palestine Land Studies Center, at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He is currently the advisor of the National Convener for Food Systems in Lebanon. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) of the Committee of World Food Security (CFS), and a commissioner on the EAT-Lancet commission on sustainable diets from sustainable food systems. He has worked and written extensively on the Arab World, focusing on the political ecology of Arab food security and its linkages with the agrarian question.
Location: Central European University, QS D002 Tiered, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna.
*Registration is required by 5 pm on May 13th, Zoom link provided after registration. The teach-in can be followed on-site or online. Registration is required in both cases and limited to CEU affiliates.
In continuation of previous teach-ins, and in an effort to bring academic expertise to open up spaces for collective discussion and learning, we announce a series of events under the title Theorizing Injustice: Conceptual Conversations on Palestine.
The Teach-in Series is hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU. Following our disciplines’ commitment to critical thinking, located expertise, and conceptual reflection, the series brings together a renowned group of experts with a variety of views, academic traditions, and subjectivities. The views of invited speakers do not necessarily represent those of CEU as an institution.