"Rooting for Peace: Go Peace, Grow Peace," the 2011 Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship conference, will be held Feb. 18-20 at Bluffton University.
Ethical food production is the focus of the conference, an annual gathering of representatives of Mennonite colleges and universities but open to the public as well.
The keynote speaker is Ragan Sutterfield, a writer, teacher and gardener from Little Rock, Ark. He is the author of "Farming as a Spiritual Discipline" and has also written for a variety of magazines on issues relating to good food, sustainability and contemporary culture. Sutterfield will speak in Yoder Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, and at 10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19.
Also in Yoder Recital Hall on Friday will be a 9 p.m. screening of "Food Stamped," a documentary about a couple attempting to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food-stamp budget.
Saturday's schedule also includes workshops on injustices in America's food system and responses to them, at 9 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. in Centennial Hall; a bread and soup meal followed by a session on genetically modified organisms, beginning at 5 p.m. at First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., Bluffton; and a 9 p.m. concert by the Bluffton-based band Anabaptist Bestiary Project in Bob's Place, located in Marbeck Center on campus.
The conference will conclude Sunday morning, Feb. 20, with a worship service of singing and sharing at 9:30 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
Registration is requested at www.bluffton.edu/icpf/; cost is $25 before Jan. 31, $40 thereafter or $10 for Saturday only.
For more information, contact Bluffton senior Leah Roeschley at [email protected].
