Vandana Shiva at UWinnipeg

Tue. Jun. 20, 2017

MDP Director, Claire Reid and Vandana Shiva

Together with the Department of Religion and Culture and the CLASS Institute, the MDP co-offered a spring institute entitled The University and the Public Good.

This innovative course included 12 top-notch speakers brought in from across Canada and the world. Topics included how the university can and is engaged in debates about how to have a positive and sustainable impact on topics like public health, indigenization of the academy, security and privacy, refugee resettlement, climate change etc. Vandana Shiva spoke, in particular, about organic farming and seed sovereignty.

For more information, please see here.