Activist and ecologist Dr. Vandana Shiva will present “Real Wealth, Real Poverty: How Economic Globalization is Robbing the Poor of Wealth” on Tuesday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Balch Auditorium, located on the Scripps College campus. The lecture is part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Series, “Trailblazers,” hosted by the Humanities Institute at Scripps College. This lecture is free and open to the public. A pre-lecture reception at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:00 p.m. are also available for $15.00 per person. Please call the Malott Commons Office at (909) 607-8508 for reservations.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), based in Dehra Dun, India. Since 1982, the foundation has focused on protecting people’s rights from threats to their environment by centralized systems of monoculture, forestry, agriculture and fisheries. Dr. Shiva’s goal is to conduct research “with people, not on them” to create a greater understanding of “the interconnections in the web of life.”
Aside from her work with the RFSTE, Dr. Shiva has also written a number of books, including Stolen Harvest, Ecofeminism, Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction , Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge , Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development, and the recently published Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit.
Dr. Shiva’s lecture is part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute’s Fall 2003 program “Poverty.” The Program in Science, Technology, and Society of the Claremont Colleges is also a co-sponsor of this event. For a full schedule of events related to the Fall 2003 Program, contact the Scripps College Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8326. The Alexa Fullerton Hampton Series is made possible through the generous bequest of Alexa Fullerton Hampton, Scripps class of 1942.