Boston University history professor Louis Ferleger will speak on Wednesday, April 4, beginning at 10 am, on Agribusiness and the Politics of Cheap Food. Mr. Ferleger has served as executive director of the Historical Society at Boston University, and is coauthor of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous Economy, and No Gain, No Pain: Taxes, Productivity and Economic Growth. He has served as editor of Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century, and has co-edited Slavery, Secession, and Southern History (2000) and, with Walter Dean Burnham and Thomas Ferguson, Voting in American Elections: The Shape of the American Political Universe Since 1788 (Academica Press, 2009.) You may register online at www.bu.edu/foodandwine/register, or call 617-353-9852. $30. You will receive location information upon receipt of payment.
