"Women Lead the Way: From Violence to Non-Violence,
from Greed to Sharing, From Hate to Love "

Dr. Shiva

Dr. Vandana Shiva
Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology

April 27, 2017, 4:00pm
Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center

This lecture was also the keynote lecture at the 2nd Annual 4W summit on Women, Gender and Well-being

video recording of this lecture

About the Speaker:

Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India

In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our times, in close partnership with local communities and social movements. In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. For last two decades, Navdanya has worked with local communities and organizations serving more than 5,00,000 men and women farmers. Navdanya’s efforts have resulted in conservation of more than 3000 rice varieties from all over the country and have established 60seed banks in 16 states across the country. In 2004 she started Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for sustainable living in Doon Valley in collaboration with Schumacher College, U.K.

Dr. Shiva combines the sharp intellectual inquiry with courageous activism. She is equally at ease working with peasants in rural India and teaching in Universities worldwide.

More on Dr. Shiva 

Sponsored by: Human Rights Program, Global Legal Studies Center, The International Division, The Center for Research on Gender and Women, 4W Initiative, and Center for South Asia

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