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SUMMARY:Janet Kaufmann's "The Fantasy of the Clip Art Farm" and Factory Farming in Michigan
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 A community conversation with:\n
 Janet Kauffman, 
 author of Trespassing\n
 Arthur Versluis, Chair 
 of Religious Studies at MSU and author of 
 Island Farm\n
 Craig Harris, MSU, Department of 
 Sociology\n
 Wynne Wright, MSU, Department of 
 Sociology, Department of Community Sustainability\n
 \n
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 Kauffman's 
 Trespassing: Dirt Stories 
 and Field Notes (Wayne State, 2006) as a whole 
 and "The Fantasy of the Clip Art Farm" depicts 
 the realities of food production in post-Industrial 
 rural Michigan. In particular, she 
 focuses on the meat industry and the environmental 
 and sociological after-effects of farming 
 on rural communities. The essay that will 
 start the discussion at this event more directly 
 addresses the space between the bucolic 
 image still associated with American farming 
 and the vastly different realities of the industry. 
 The other panelists will provide commentary 
 and reflection from their own areas of 
 expertise.\n
 \n
 Cosponsored by the Humanities 
 Innovation Center 3.0 in the College of Arts 
 and Letters.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library, W449 (4th Floor, West Wing)
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