INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
FOOD FOR PEACE:
The Schiller Institute, China Energy Fund Committee,
and The Foundation For the Revival of Classical Culture
present
Food For Peace & Thought:
China-US Agricultural Cooperation
New York City
July 7th, 2017
Conference overview
Program (PDF)
PANEL 1
9:30 - 13:00
FOOD FOR PEACE: CHINA-US
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION
Musical Performance
Horse Race,
Kang Ding Love Story
Meixu Lu, 'cello
Feifei Yang, erhu
Dennis Speed, Moderator, Northeast Coordinator, Schiller Institute VIDEO
Dr. Patrick Ho, Deputy Chairman and Secretary General, China Energy Fund Committee, Hong Kong, China VIDEO
Lan Huasheng, Chairman of the Board of Shenzhen Dasheng Agriculture Group VIDEO
Wei Zhenglin, Agricultural Attaché, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States VIDEO
Dwayne Hopkins, Mayor of Muscatine, Iowa (Former) VIDEO
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder & Chairwoman, The Schiller Institute TRANSCRIPT VIDEO
Prof. Carl Pray, Distinguished Professor, the School for Enviromental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University VIDEO
Robert L. Baker, Founding member, the Schiller Institute Food For Peace, Agricaltural Specialist, EIR magazine VIDEO
11:35 - 13:00 INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION VIDEO
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCHBREAK
PANEL 2
14:00 - 17:00
ENDING POVERTY & INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION
Musical Performance VIDEO
Deep River
Schiller Institute NYC Chorus
Mei Fangquan, Professor at the Agricultural Information Institute, Chief Expert of the UN Global Food Security Committee, China VIDEO
Wen Tiejun, Executive Dean, Professor, College of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University, China VIDEO
Zhou Yingheng, Professor of Nanjing Agricultural University, China VIDEO
Prof. Beverly Silver, Chairman of the Dept. of Sociology and Dir. of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at the Johns Hopkins Univ. VIDEO
Dr. Hal B. H. Cooper Jr., Chairman, Seattle Freight Transport Advisory Board; expert on the Bering Strait railroad tunnel VIDEO
Benjamin Deniston, Researcher, 21st Century Science and Technology magazine; co-author, The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge VIDEO
15:30 - 17:00 INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION
17:00 CONCLUSION VIDEO
13:10 - 13:50 Press Conference
2nd Level, PRESS ONLY
Invitation to this conference
Conference overview
Speeches and Greetings