Speakers' Series

NO BROW: POP, POST, MASS
Our guests explore how perspectives and experiences of ‘common people’ can offer insights into the social world, and allow for a melding between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics. No brow is not merely a cross over between these two, but rather an intentional stance whereby authors and artists target both extremes of the cultural spectrum. The aesthetics from each terrain interpenetrate each other and form the phenomenon of no brow art.

Evan Fraser
Thursday, November 4, 7:30 pm
Lecture Theatre

Author Evan Fraser’s latest book Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (co-written with Andrew Rimas) traces the fall of cultures from the Roman empire to imperial Britain as food sources dwindled. Dr. Fraser maintains that the next two generations will face a great human security challenge: how to provide nutrition to nine billion people in the face of rapid economic and climate change, and how to do so without compromising the ecosystem. Of great importance to him, also, are the stories of the people who produce the food we eat.

His formal education includes studies in anthropology, agro-forestry in the tropics and sustainable agriculture. Dr. Fraser has recently taken up appointment in the geography department at the University of Guelph. Prior to this, he was senior lecturer in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, England. His first book, Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World, was published in 2008 and co-authored with Andrew Rimas.

Admission: FREE