Events

December 9, 2025
When the science alone isn't enough: leveraging evidence to protect public health
Dean’s Lecture with CLF’s Keeve Nachman

December 2, 2025
The Power of Law in the Public Health Toolbox: Lessons from the Frontlines of Food System Reform
22nd Annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Talk by Jessica Culpepper, JD

April 18, 2024
Quantifying Disease Risk from Food Animal Production: It’s harder than it looks
21st Annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Talk by Lance Price

September 20 - 22, 2021
The Power of Food: Cultivating equitable policy through collective action

April 15, 2021
Under Gaia’s Skin: The Future of Life
20th Annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
A conversation with Jay Naidoo, social justice and anti-hunger activist

November 17-19, 2020
GIS Week

December 05, 2019
Wild Ideas on the Great Plains
19th Annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Talk by Dan O’Brien

October 23, 2019
Energize: An Ecological Approach to Growing a Food, Climate & Health Movement
The CLF Polly Walker Ecology Fund
Talk By Dr. Alessandro Demaio

August 4-7, 2019
13th Asian Congress of Nutrition

April 4, 2019
The Farm Bill: A Citizen's Guide – Book signing and panel
Panel members: Dan Imhoff, Christina Badaracco, Carolyn Hricko and Dr. Adam Sheingate

September 18, 2018
Lecture by Miguel Altieri
18th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture

September 12, 2018
Menus and Meals: Climate Action’s Best-Kept Secret for Cities and Businesses

June 11-12, 2018
CLF at EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018

May 3, 2018
Growing Plants, Growing People
The CLF Polly Walker Ecology Fund
Lecture By Cathrine Sneed

October 23, 2017
The Future of Agriculture and Public Health
Lecture by Fred Kirschenmann

September 25, 2017
“Big Hunger” Book Talk and Signing

June 13, 2017
Baltimore’s Food Landscape: An Ecology of Plants, People and Policy
The CLF Polly Walker Ecology Fund

December 8, 2016
Wendell Berry, award winning novelist, poet, and farmer unveils the new essay "The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age"

17th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture

December 7, 2016
The World-Ending Fire: A Conversation with Wendell Berry

May 10, 2016
Talk by Michael Twitty

May 3, 2016
Food Frontiers:  A Film Premiere (Flyer)
Screening and Panel Discussion

April 28, 2016
Public Health in Action: Stories from the Local Food System

April 22, 2016
Preventing the Post-Antibiotic Era: Policies to Address a Global Public Health Threat
Grand Rounds Lecture by Anthony So

November 9, 2015
Soil, Public Health and the Microbiome
16th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture
Lecture by Patrick Holden

March 31, 2015
Webinar: Funding Your Food Policy Council’s Work - Lessons from the Field

February 11, 2015
Webinar: Food Policy and Regional Food Systems: Opportunities for Networking across Jurisdictions

January 2015
Meat Matters- A 4-Part Series: Meat, Livestock & Human Health
Webinar: Cultivating Health

December 12, 2014
The Food Movement, Public Health and Wellbeing
15th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture
Lecture by Ricardo Salvador

December 4, 2014
Meat Matters- A 4-Part Series: Meat, Livestock & Human Health

October 29, 2014
"Fed Up" Film Screening

October 22, 2014
Webinar on the Food Policy Council Movement

October 23, 2014
Meat Matters- A 4-Part Series: Meat, Livestock & Human Health

October 6, 2014
Beyond Tilting at Windmills: One physician’s remarkable journey in public health
A Scientific Symposium Honoring Robert S. Lawrence, MD

Sept 19, 2014
Urban Agriculture Law Conference

Sept 18, 2014
Film Screening: Resistance (Flyer)

Sept 17, 2014
Soil safety Forum (Flyer)

September 15, 2014
Meat Matters- A 4-Part Series: Meat, Livestock & Human Health
Webinar: Meat Racket

May 30, 2014
Antibiotic Resistance: Why the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Must Protect Public Health

May 13, 2014
Good Food Gathering
The Marc Steiner Show is partnering with Center for a Livable Future’s Food & Faith Project and Interfaith Power & Light for a Good Food Gathering, a town hall meeting on Teaching Well: How can we educate our youth, adults and communities about “good food?”

May 9, 2014
We are What We Eat…and What We Build
The Center for a Livable Future and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences Grand Rounds bring you the 14th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture.
Lecture by Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAP

April 11, 2014
Distinguished Women in Environmental Health Sciences
The CLF Polly Walker Ecology Fund and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences Grand Rounds bring you an afternoon symposium
Lecture by Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH ‘01

April 10, 2014
BFFP Good Food Gathering Series Flyer)
Eating Well: How can we make "good food" choices that nourish our bodies, our communities, and our planet?
Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Ayres

February 20, 2014
Responsible Aquaculture: Minimizing Environmental Impacts on Land and Water
CLF Aquaculture Lecture Series: "Food and Health: What's fish farming got to do with it?"
Lecture by Steve Summerfelt, PhD, PE, Director, Aquaculture Systems Research

January 29, 2014
Aquaculture, Ecosystems, and International Public Health Flyer)
CLF Aquaculture Lecture Series: "Food and Health: What's fish farming got to do with it?"
Conner Bailey, Professor of Rural Sociology, Auburn University

December 12, 2013
Public Health and the Global Food System: FDA's Role and Agenda
Lecture by Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine

November 20, 2013
GIS Day 2013 (Flyer)

November 20, 2013
Industrial Food Animal Production Operations: Who is Protecting Affected Communities? (Flyer)

November 13, 2013
Film Screening: Farming the Seas (Flyer)

October 22, 2013
The Release of the CLF Study on Impacts of the 2008 PCIFAP Report Flyer)

October 17, 2013
Meatless Monday's 10th anniversary

October 9, 2013
The Future of Fish: Ensuring a Path for Environmentally Responsible Aquaculture (Flyer)
Lecture by Elizabeth Fetherston, Deputy Director, Fish Conservation program, Ocean Conservancy

September 24, 2013
Is Sustainability Still Possible? (Flyer)
The Polly Walker Ecology Fund Event
Lecture and discussion with Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute

September 19, 2013
Antimicrobials and Aquaculture: A Public Health Concern? (Flyer)
Lecture by Felipe Cabello, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College

July 28, 2013
In Organic We Trust (Flyer)
Film Screening sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

May 2, 2013
A Place at the Table (Flyer)
Film Screening and Dinner

April 30, 2013
Fostering a Just and Sustainable Food System
13th Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Lecture by Malik Yakini, Founder & Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network

April 9, 2013
Food and Health: Connecting Communities and Classrooms in Philadelphia with the University of Pennsylvania's Urban Nutrition Initiative (Flyer)
Lecture by Mary Summers

February 14, 2013
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
Lecture and Book Signing by Wenonah Hauter

October 24, 2012
Greener Pastures: A Vision for Healthy Farming
Polly Walker Ecology Fund Lecture
Lecture by Francis Thicke

October 20, 2012
The 100 Mile Meal (Flyer)
With special guest Anna Lappé
Co-hosted by Real Food Hopkins, the CLF, Corporate Accountability International, and the Small Planet Institute

August 21, 2012
The Garden (Flyer)
Film Screening sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

August 5, 2012
Kayam Farm's Interfaith Celebration (Flyer)

July 24, 2012
Forks over Knives (Flyer)
Film Screening sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

June 26, 2012
The Price of Sugar (Flyer)
Film Screening sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

April 11, 2012
Faces of Africa: Future, Sustainability, Solidarity
Presented by African Public Health Network

April 10, 2012
Food Sovereignty, Biopiracy and the Future
12th Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Lecture by Winona LaDuke

March 13, 2012
World Energy Supply and Its Effects on Public Health (Flyer)
Lecture by The Honorable Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett

March 12, 2012
Livestock-Associated MRSA ST398: The Birth of a Superbug (Flyer)
Lecture by Lance B. Price

March 7, 2012
On the Future of Food
Lecture and book signing by Will Allen

March 5, 2012

Lecture by Jonathan Bloom

January-February 2012
Enoughness: How Shall We Live on Gods Earth?
An interfaith, interdisciplinary study series hosted by the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies and the Baltimore Food & Faith Project.

February 9, 2012
'A Fable for Tomorrow': Imagining Ecological Crisis 50 Years After Silent Spring
Lecture by Jesse Taylor

February 2, 2012
The Challenge of Feeding Nine Billion by Mid-century
Lecture by Robert Thompson

October 24, 2011
Food Day Teach-In
Co-sponsored by the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, the Center for Human Nutrition, the JB Grant International Health Society, and the Anna Baetjer Society for Public Health Practic

September 27, 2011
Food Systems, Famines & Human Rights
11th Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture
Lecture by Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

August 16, 2011
Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming
Saving Seeds (Flyer)
Film Screening sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

July 19, 2011
Dirt! the Movie
Film Screening

June 27, 2011
Animal Pain: What it is and why it matters
Annual Ethnobotanical Research Symposium
Lecture by Bernard Rollin

June 21, 2011
Vanishing of the Bees (Flyer)
Film Screening sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

May 5, 2011
Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas (Flyer)
Lecture and Book Signing by Mark Winne

April 7, 2011
Food Justice: An Emerging Social Movement Takes Root (Flyer)
Lecture by Robert Gottlieb

April 7, 2011
Farmworker Justice: The Missing Piece in Sustainable Food Flyer)
Sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

March 26, 2011
Growing Food, Growing Faith II: Creating a Vegetable Garden with Your Faith Community
Sponsored by CLF's Baltimore Food and Faith Project

February 3, 2011
Film Screening (Flyer)
BFED, the Baltimore Food Ecology Documentary
Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming