Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty and Collective Power 

Carl Whithaus
Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local: Rhetorical Dynamics across Networked Publics

Join us for an evening with UC Davis faculty authors Carl Whithaus and Liza Grandia as part of ”Covered,”a campus-wide collaboration celebrating recent books from the College of Letters and Science. Whithaus, professor of writing and rhetoric, discusses Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local, which examines how emerging writing technologies and born-digital texts circulate, mutate and shape contemporary public discourse. Grandia, chair and professor of Native American Studies, shares insights from Kernels of Resistance, tracing how Mesoamerican farmers and food-sovereignty movements confronted corporate power to build more climate-resilient, community-driven agricultural systems.