"An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic:" A Conversation with Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry participated in this panel discussion as the 2012-2013 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. He was joined by UC Berkeley faculty panelists Michael Pollan (Graduate School of Journalism), Robert Hass (English), Miguel Altieri (Environmental Science, Policy and Management), and Anne-Lise Francois (English and Comparative Literature). Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist and poet. He is the author of over forty books including "The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture," and the well-known "Port William" series. The master of many genres, Berry's focus on farming, community, and agricultural and ecological thinking has remained a constant throughout his work. He has farmed a hillside in his native Henry County, KY, for more than forty years. Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu