<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday, February 25, 2021, noon-1 p.m. (please note the different day for this colloquy)</span></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-aef43a3c-7fff-5b55-2e3b-35eebd09f722"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Zoom: <a href="http://bit.ly/3pIsTAF">http://bit.ly/3pIsTAF</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Past Institute Fellow and retired professor of sociology Dr. Charles Simpson joins Institute director Dr. Jonathan Slater in a wide-ranging conversation about food insecurity. Charles has written extensively about environmental responsibility and threats to agricultural systems.During his 34 years on the SUNY Plattsburgh faculty, Charles co-directed the college's Southern Mexico Program, a semester-long study abroad experience for liberal arts, nursing, and education students. Charles recently has had his first novel, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Uncertain Harvest</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, published by Fomite. The work leads the reader on a global chase after “a </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(21,20,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">reporter stumbles on a plot by an international corporation to use genetic technology to monopolize the world's food production and destroy ecosystems.”</span></p><br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information about colloquies at the Ethics Institute, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director, at </span><a href="mailto:slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The Institute for Ethics in Public Life is generously supported by gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.</span></div></div>