Student Organic Seed Symposium
Mtangazaji: Student Organic Seeds
WHAT IS SOSS?
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An annual gathering of graduate students, researchers, farmers, and seed industry professionals working in organic seed systems.
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The major annual event of the Society of Organic Seed Professionals (SOSP), the parent organization that has grown out of the SOSS network. SOSP is fiscally sponsored by Organic Seed Alliance, a 501(c)3 organization.
maelezo ya tukio
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BETHEL HORIZONS RETREAT CENTER
DODGEVILLE, WI
Fursa ya Ziada
WHAT QUESTIONS WILL GUIDE SOSS 2019?
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What drew you to work with seeds? What keeps you working with seeds?
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How do science and spirit interact in your work with seeds? Do you find tension or complementation between intuition and scientific enquiry?
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How have your identities -- race / ethnicity / gender / class / sexual orientation / ability/ etc -- shaped your work with seed? How have your identities shaped the questions you ask and the resources you have to answer them?
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What questions – about productivity, aesthetics, power, ecology, or something else – do you want to answer in future seed projects? What insights might scientific paradigms, instruments, or technologies provide? Which questions can’t science answer?
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Does thinking about the stories of seed varieties, or of the seed professionals who create them, change our conversation about plant breeding techniques and technologies? About intellectual property? About privilege?