College and High School Educators:
Please consider this invitation to bring the critically acclaimed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer into your classrooms to discuss his international bestseller, Eating Animals. Reserve now for Fall 2015. Limited space is available for this complimentary program.
Set in the context of a larger journey of exploration, Eating Animals presents what many consider the most important popular critique of industrial farming. As part of our broader educational efforts, Farm Forward, a national nonprofit organization, is covering all costs of this program for educators who discuss Eating Animals in their courses.
Foer’s first two books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, have both been made into major motion pictures and, while highly regarded for their literary merit, are also popular with the college demographic. Kirkus Reviews called Eating Animals “wholly compelling” and the LA Times argues that it offers a wisdom “that, in all its humanity and clarity, deserves a place at the table with our greatest philosophers.” In recent years both Duke University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill made it required reading for their incoming freshman class. The most frequent comment we hear from educators who use Eating Animals is “I’ve never had such great classroom discussion!”
On October 27, 2015, Jonathan Safran Foer will make a number of virtual classroom visits to discuss Eating Animals, using professional webinar technology. See further details below.
Because Eating Animals looks at the consumption of animals from a variety of perspectives, it has been used successfully in a wide range of academic fields, including Business, English, Environmental Studies, Philosophy, Public Policy, and Religious Studies.
This year, in addition to Jonathan's 8 virtual visit sessions, Dr. Aaron Gross and Joey Tuminello of Farm Forward will be leading 4 additional sessions. In addition to their advocacy work at Farm Forward, Aaron teaches at the University of San Diego and Joey teaches at the University of North Texas. While Jonathan will not be present at these 4 sessions (see below for listings), Aaron worked closely with Jonathan on Eating Animals and is featured in it (check out pages 233-237)!
Please consider passing this email on, and don’t hesitate to contact me with further questions at the email below.
Sincerely,
Joey Tuminello
Program Coordinator // Farm Forward
Additional Information
From 10:00am – 6:50pm (Eastern Time), there will be 12 available sessions to choose from. Each session will consist of a 15-minute presentation by Foer, followed by a 20-minute Q&A session. Sessions 3,10,11, and 12 will be led by Dr. Aaron Gross and Joey Tuminello from Farm Forward, and Foer will not be present at these four sessions. While multiple classrooms will be included in each time slot, there is limited space and high demand is anticipated. With this in mind, we encourage all interested educators to schedule their classroom visit from Foer as soon as possible. Instructors can sign their classes up for a session by visiting our sign-up page.
· Farm Forward is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization which implements innovative strategies to promote conscientious food choices, reduce farm animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture. Learn more about us at www.FarmForward.com.
· For educators who are interested in incorporating Eating Animals into their respective courses, Farm Forward’s website will soon provide a host of discipline-specific supplemental materials. If you already have used Eating Animals in your course and are willing to share your experience, please write me.
Schedule of Sessions (Eastern Time)
October 27, 2015 (Tuesday)
· Session 1 – 10:00am - 10:35am
· Session 2 – 10:45am - 11:20am
· Session 3 – 11:30am - 12:05pm (with Aaron Gross, PhD and Joey Tuminello from Farm Forward - Foer will not be participating)
· Session 4 – 12:15pm - 12:50pm
· Session 5 – 1:00pm - 1:35pm
· Session 6 – 1:45pm - 2:20pm
· Session 7 – 2:30pm - 3:05pm
· Session 8 – 3:15pm - 3:50pm
· Session 9 – 4:00pm - 4:35pm
· Session 10 – 4:45pm - 5:20pm (with Aaron Gross, PhD and Joey Tuminello from Farm Forward - Foer will not be participating)
· Session 11 – 5:30pm - 6:05pm (with Aaron Gross, PhD and Joey Tuminello from Farm Forward - Foer will not be participating)
· Session 12 – 6:15pm - 6:50pm (with Aaron Gross, PhD and Joey Tuminello from Farm Forward - Foer will not be participating)
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