Kevin Starr to speak about California agriculture June 11

Historian Kevin Starr will present "Edward Wickson, Progressivism and the Enterprise of California Agriculture” at 4 p.m. Monday, June 11, at the UC Davis Conference Center.

Starr is the author of the Americans and the California Dream series published by Oxford University Press, for which he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. He is a University Professor and professor of history at the University of Southern California.

The lecture will be followed by a reception and book signing to commemorate the release of the fourth book in the Robert Mondavi Institute Historical Agriculture Book Series, “The California Vegetables in Garden and Field” by Edward James Wickson, with the foreword authored by  Starr.

Register for Starr's lecture at https://registration.ucdavis.edu/Item/Details/49
 and register for the reception at https://registration.ucdavis.edu/Item/Details/50. Both events are free.

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