All interested faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners
One-hour talks
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Engaged Publication Talks provide a showcase and celebrate the publication success of faculty committed to community-engaged learning at Cornell. Featuring faculty and staff authors, this series provides opportunities for learning about engaged publication processes and pathways for potential scholarly engagement in this work.
Engaged Publications Talks are part of the Einhorn Center’s Engaged Conversations Series.
Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need
Author and speaker: Michael Hoffman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
noon-1 p.m.
300 Kennedy Hall, Engaged Cornell Hub
Lunch is provided. RSVP to attend.
Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need explains the causes and impacts of climate change, how it’s affecting our food and who’s working to keep the menu stocked. A typical dinner menu is used — from appetizers to desserts — to explain how a warming world is changing everything we eat. The book also features brief interviews with farmers, ranchers, fishers, educators and company managers who are on the frontline of climate change. The reader will discover many more reasons to confront this grand challenge. The book is available from Cornell University Press and anyone can use this discount code 09SAVE.
Community-Engaged Performance Tours
Author and speaker: James Spinazzola, Barbara & Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Associate Professor, Director of Winds
Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement. Performance tours have long been a part of the collegiate and high school music ensemble experience, bringing student bands, choirs and orchestras into connection with a wide variety of audiences, venues and cultural contexts. This book presents a new approach to the performance tour that integrates touring with community engagement and service-learning.
Emphasizing reciprocity, cross-cultural exchange and global awareness, the author addresses how visiting ensembles can work with host communities instead of performing for them. The book includes student and community perspectives and case studies from the author’s experience leading university wind symphony tours in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and provides a practical and hands-on model for ensemble leaders and educators.
About the author: James Spinazzola is an active conductor, ensemble clinician, saxophonist and arranger. In addition to directing the Cornell wind program, James teaches undergraduate courses in conducting, music theory and chamber music, and he serves as faculty adviser to CU Winds, a student-driven organization devoted to the performance and promotion of wind band music.