Postponed: POSTPONED: NC Tomato Club History and Transcribathon

Virtual

In the 1910s, Jane McKimmon’s tomato club movement taught young girls in North Carolina how to grow, can and sell their own tomatoes, as part of a broader effort to teach rural families more efficient farming methods through an emerging […]

Fermentology Miniseminars: Bread Baking as an Opportunity

Virtual

Bread baking presents us with countless opportunities: reflection, patience, nourishment, generosity, observation and the list goes on and on and on. In this session, Josey Baker will explore some of the opportunities he has found in his decade of bread […]

Fermentology Miniseminars: Vegetable Fermentation

Virtual

In many parts of the world, especially in regions with limited growing seasons and long winters, people preserve vegetables through fermentation. Join Sandor Ellix Katz, a fermentation revivalist, for a virtual discussion about the illustrious history of fermented vegetables, the […]

Fermentology Miniseminars: The Evolution of Fermentation by Primates

Virtual

Katie Amato is a biological anthropologist studying interactions between diet, physiology and the gut microbiome in nonhuman primates and humans. Her evolutionary perspective on host-microbe interactions has recently led her into the world of fermented foods. Fermented food consumption is […]

Fermentology Miniseminars: Fermenting for the Zombie Apocalypse

Virtual

How does fermentation fit into your zombie apocalypse preparation plan? Join Athena Aktipis, an assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University and chair of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Alliance, for a discussion about how fermenting can provide a number […]

A/V Geeks: Unusual Instructional Films, Newsreels and Documentaries

Virtual

A/V Geeks founder and NC State alumnus Skip Elsheimer joins forces with NC State faculty members to present and discuss unusual and exemplary classroom instructional films, newsreels and documentaries spanning the last 80 years. The discussion will be held via […]

Fermentology Miniseminars: Microbial War and Peace in Cheese Rind Microbiomes

Virtual

In this talk, Benjamin Wolfe, an assistant professor of microbiology at Tufts University, will explore how microbes compete and cooperate in cheese rind microbiomes. From fungal highways on wheels of Saint Nectaire to antibiotic producing fungi in cheddar, we’ll learn […]

A/V Geeks: Unusual Instructional Films, Newsreels and Documentaries

Virtual

A/V Geeks founder and NC State alumnus Skip Elsheimer joins forces with NC State faculty members to present and discuss unusual and exemplary classroom instructional films, newsreels and documentaries spanning the last 80 years. The discussion will be held via […]

Fermentology Miniseminars: A Brief History of Sourdough

Virtual

Join Eric Pallant, chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability at Allegheny College, for a discussion about sourdough. For 6,000 years —since breads were first baked in the Fertile Crescent until the end of the 19th century — […]

A/V Geeks: Sex Education

Virtual

Join A/V Geeks founder and NC State alumnus Skip Elsheimer and Matthew Champagne, a doctoral student in the public history program at NC State, for a viewing of a selection of vintage sex education films and a discussion about how […]