SIMRAN SETHI // UPCOMING/RECENT

UPCOMING/RECENT

10/1 - 10/6

Speaker: Festival of Ideas (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

The Festival of Ideas is designed to capture and express the unique ability of the higher education sector to contribute to our national and global conversations. Encompassing the broad themes of science, health and society, the 2013 Festival will impact on our city and nation with thought provoking debates and events.

6/7 - 6/8

Speaker: Sustainable Foods Summit (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

The Sustainable Foods Summit will bring together key stake-holders (food manufacturers & retailers, ingredient suppliers, industry organisations & certification agencies, investors, packaging companies, etc.) and create a forum to debate and discuss key issues in a high-level forum.

3/19

Speaker: Yoder Public Affairs Lecture Series (Goshen, IN)

Simran presented “Bridging Divides through Food, Faith and the Environment” at Goshen College.

3/13

Speaker: St. Catherine University School of Business and Professional Studies (St. Paul, MN)

Simran addressed “Women’s Work: The Role of Women in Sustainability.”

2/27 - 2/28

Speaker: GreenBiz Forum (San Francisco, CA)

Simran spoke about the green brain.

Framed by the 2013 State of Green Business report, the 2013 GreenBiz Forums bring together thought leaders and sustainability executives to define the trends, challenges and opportunities in sustainable business today.

2/20 - 2/21

Speaker: GreenBiz Forum (New York, NY)

Simran spoke about the green brain.

2/16

Presenter: TEDx Manhattan (New York City, NY)

Simran presented at this TEDx conference dedicated to food and farming. Her talk focused on the loss of seed biodiversity and seed conservation efforts. (Watch the video here.)

11/8

Presenter: KAGIDER Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership Summit (Istanbul, Turkey)

Simran presented on women’s role in sustainability.

11/7

Speaker: SALT: Who’s in town? (Istanbul, Turkey)

SALT explores critical and timely issues in visual and material culture, and cultivates innovative programs for research and experimental thinking. (Watch the video here.)

10/18

Speaker: James Beard Foundation Food Conference (New York, NY)

Simran spoke about food advocacy and consumer trust. (Watch the video here.)

10/16

Speaker: Simran Sethi ‘92 Salon Discussion - Sustainability, Environmental Justice, and Transformation (New York, NY)

It is an honor for the Smith College Club of NYC to welcome Smith College Medalist and Emmy-Award winning Indian American Journalist Simran Preeti Sethi ‘92 for a Salon Discussion of her work relating to sustainability, environmental justice, and the interdisciplinary exploration of the personal and cultural dimensions of transformation.

9/25

Presenter: A Thirty-Year Plan

Join Orion for a special thirtieth anniversary live web event featuring columnist Sandra Steingraber, contributing editor Terry Tempest Williams, and Thirty-Year Plan contributors Simran Sethi and Carl Safina. We’ll talk about the last thirty years of environmentalism and what urgently needs to happen in the thirty years to come.

6/7

Facilitator: Films For Action: Environmental Film Series (Rome, Italy)

Simran facilitated discussion after a showing of Gasland at the Piazza Cenci.

6/2

Presenter: TEDx (Madrid, Spain)

Simran presented “Why and how do we engage” about the role of psychology in social and environmental change.

5/9 - 5/11

Speaker: International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design (Istanbul, Turkey)

The themes of the conference aiming for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications is categorized under four headings as Communication Technologies, Communication Barriers, Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design, Education and Communication Technologies, and Marketing Communication.

Simran spoke about cowbird.com and designing for intimacy online.

5/8

Speaker: Kagider - Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (Istanbul, Turkey)

Simran was a guest at a special meeting for Kagider and spoke on “Sustainability in Emerging Economies.”

5/7

Presenter: Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey)

Simran presented to the MBA program at Bilgi University. She will be discussing the role of design in sustainability.

4/28

Speaker: Sowing and Reaping: Christian Perspectives on Food & Agriculture (Lawrence, KS)

Simran presented “First the Seed: GMOs, Life-affirmation and Fruitfulness,” an exploration of the relationship between Christian tents of life-affirmation, fruitfulness, and justice, and the increase in transgenic seeds and foods (popularly known as Genetically Modified Organisms).

4/23 - 4/24

Presenter: Environmental Security Conference: Academic and Military Perspectives (Lawrence, KS)

This two-day conference presents leading academic and military perspectives on global environmental conditions and how they contribute to the world’s economic, social, and security-related instabilities.

Simran presented on sustainability in the military.

4/12

Keynote speaker: KU Energy Conference (Lawrence, KS)

Simran spoke about modern environmentalism and energy.

3/29

Panelist: Spring of Sustainability 2012

Global Stewardship: Why Sustainability Isn’t Getting More Traction - and What We Can Do To Change It (Hosted by Betsy Rosenberg)

3/19

Speaker: Food, Faith, and Conservation (Berkeley, CA)

Simran spoke at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley.

Food is big business. And in the area of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), there is a great debate on the advantages and the risks of using them. And now that they are introduced to the food system, who controls them, the corporation or the consumer? How much or how little do you know about the food system that provides you with what you eat on your table?

1/30 - 31

Participant: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Diversity in a Digital Age Project

1/27 - 29

Moderator: Columbia School of Journalism Social Media Weekend (New York)

The Continuing Education department of Columbia Journalism School (@columbiajourn) will host its second annual Social Media Weekend featuring a series of workshops, panels and keynotes to help journalists, media professionals and others understand social media better.

1/10 - 12

Presenter: Sustainability Conference 2012 (Vancouver, Canada)

Presentation on military preparedness and sustainability.

The 2012 Conference is to be held at the Robson Square, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada From 10 to 12 January. The Conference will work in a multidisciplinary way across the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of sustainability.

Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations.

12/9 - 10

Presenter: Food Studies Conference (Las Vegas, NV)

God, Guns, and Green: Forging Crosscultural Alliances in Sustainable Agriculture

Drumbeat assertions that the sustainability movement is a movement for some, not all, obscure what’s important and limit the ways diverse communities can work together — especially when it comes to food. In the last 30 years, our food supply has become more chemicalized, industrialized, and consolidated than at any other point in history. At the same time, we consumers have substantially less access to information about what’s in our food and how it is made. We all have a vested interest in safe food and healthy communities — but how we manifest, prioritize, and articulate these concerns varies dramatically. The author will detail her work on the psychological barriers to environmental engagement, and make the case for the application of faith as a lens through which to address arguments for and against genetically modified organisms. Borne out of fieldwork in journalism, the author will explain how engagement with people’s most deeply held values and beliefs can help forge a new kind of environmentalism that includes diverse and seemingly unlikely allies including farmers, hunters, laborers, and conservatives. Our relationships with this diverse constituency will define our ability to conserve resources, feed people, and protect our planet.

11/10

Keynote speaker: Opportunity Green (Los Angeles, CA)

A Conversation with Vermont, Governor Peter Shumlin
Opportunity Green inspires a collaborative culture of new thinking and unconventional ideas that pushes change in unexpected ways.

We’re not about business as usual. We facilitate the movement to transform business for good, through advancing change and market transformation by providing open-minded professionals unprecedented approaches to sustainability that are bankable and exciting. In everything we do, we seek to balance the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit.

10/31 - 11/2

Moderator: GreenGov Symposium (Washington, DC)

Sustainability and Young America

The GreenGov Symposium is the annual national conference to highlight the sustainability initiatives under way throughout the Federal government, covering emerging topics such as climate risk and resilience, sustainable planning, and green IT for about 1,000 attendees from the government, private sector, non-profit and academia. Simran will moderate a panel discussion on the future efforts, expectations and goals of young sustainability leaders as the kick-off event for three days of lessons learned, case studies and best practices in sustainability.

10/25

Presenter: WiserTuesdays (Paris, France)

Simran presented on psychological resistance to change and the present ecological challenges.

Wiser Tuesdays are small monthly gatherings for change makers to exchange and learn about best practices especially related to using social technologies for social change.

10/12 - 13

Moderator: Slow Money’s 2011 National Gathering (San Francisco, CA)

Simran moderated a panel featuring David Suzuki, Wes Jackson and Winona LaDuke.

The program of Slow Money National Gatherings integrates internationally recognized thought leadership, next generation social entrepreneurship, and an environment that fosters shared learning across the full spectrum of backgrounds—from the most sophisticated financiers to individual investors, from farmers to food entrepreneurs.

Given the centrality of food to our mission, all meals feature the best offerings of local organic purveyors. Meals are generously scheduled to offer as much time as possible for food to be enjoyed and for a bit of the conviviality of the table to be experienced.

The program also includes elements of film, music, and Meet the Author sessions, because fixing the economy from the ground up is not only a financial activity, but also a cultural one.

10/4 - 6

Featured Speaker: SXSW Eco’s 2011 Conference (Austin, TX)

God, Guns, and Greens: Forging Unlikely Allies in the Fight for Safe Food

Drumbeat assertions that the environmental movement is a movement for some, not all, obscure what’s important and limit the ways diverse communities can work together—especially when it comes to food. In the last 30 years, our food supply has become more chemicalized, industrialized, and consolidated than at any other point in history. At the same time, we consumers have substantially less access to information about what’s in our food and how it is made. We all have a vested interest in safe food and healthy communities—but how we manifest, prioritize, and articulate these concerns varies dramatically. Simran Sethi will detail her work on Genetically Modified Organisms and faith, explaining how engagement with people’s most deeply held values and beliefs can help forge a new kind of environmentalism that includes diverse and seemingly unlikely allies including farmers, hunters, laborers, conservatives, even climate change skeptics. Our relationships with this diverse constituency will define our ability to conserve resources, feed people, and protect our planet.

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