The Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture invites you to join us for:

"When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow"

with 

Dr. Angie Carter

Assistant Professor - Michigan Tech University

Houghton, Michigan

What are we sustaining in sustainable agriculture? Current education, research, and practice in sustainable agriculture emphasize systems resilience, yet often avoid the most resilient system of agriculture: white supremacy. The mythology of the virgin prairie and its transformation into a productive landscape thanks to white men with plows, as illustrated in Grant Wood’s mural at Iowa State University’s Parks Library, continues to shape not only agricultural knowledge production, but American culture writ large. Repainted today, the mural might show an extractive landscape with abandoned towns and poisoned rivers. How might we like it to look? We must and can do better. Transformation requires we reckon in real and needed ways with the land grant university’s exploitive roots, as well as its ongoing censorship and silencing of needed science (and scientists). Redefining what counts as agriculture and who counts in agriculture may inspire new mandates beyond the land grant mission, ones truly accountable to the public good.

Dr. Angie Carter is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI and a 2015 graduate of Iowa State University (PhD Sociology & Sustainable Agriculture).

"I grew up in rural Iowa during the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. As a PhD student at Iowa State University, I was lucky to learn from an amazing cohort of students in the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture and from the many community partners who welcomed us in their work; together, we organized numerous campaigns to make visible the corporate power and influence in public science at the university. These combined experiences inspire my research studying power and transformation in agricultural and food systems. My scholarship engages feminist, community-based, and participatory research methods in partnership with farmers, activists, grassroots groups, and non-profit organizations. Currently, I work as an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Tech University, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where I am studying rural food systems in partnership with the Western Upper Peninsula Food Systems Collaborative and serve on the board of directors of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network."

Wednesday, January 27 - Online Meeting

3:10 - 4:15 p.m. Presentation with Q&A Session

WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?MTID=mbcdc8bfe2833dd0705ff1ae84…

Password: SUSAG600

Those not enrolled in SUSAG 600 may request to attend. Please send an RSVP to kellis@iastate.edu

When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow Video (Echo360)