ALBA News: Paul Robeson, Marion Nestle, and the Watt Award
Marion Nestle
On November 20, Marion Nestle gave ALBA’s annual Susman lecture, reflecting on her upbringing as a red diaper baby. A leading nutrition scholar and the author of award-winning books on food politics, Marion Nestle is professor emerita at NYU. Her father, Ted Zittel, was a labor publicist, most notably for the strike against the Brass Rail Restaurant in New York City. Doing research for her memoir, Slow Cooked, Nestle discovered that, when she was a toddler, she was featured in a Daily Worker ad to support the Spanish Republic. The lecture, followed by a lively Q&A, can be viewed on ALBA’s YouTube channel here.
On September 26-28, the Einstein Forum in Berlin, which is directed by the US philosopher Susan Neiman, held a three-day conference on the life, music, and activism of Paul Robeson, with a slate of prominent speakers that included Susan Robeson, Albie Sachs, Margaret Burnham, Victor Grossman, and Penny Von Eschen. Peter Carroll’s lecture on Robeson and the Spanish Civil War was presented by Sebastiaan Faber. The lectures can be viewed here.
The jury of ALBA’s annual George Watt Essay Prize has concluded its deliberations, identifying winners in the pre-college, college, and graduate categories. This year, yet again, saw a high number of submissions. Excerpts of the winning essays will be published in the March issue.
