The New Breadline
Thu, May 29
|1111 S Broadway
Zócalo will host Zócalo Reads: a reading hour led by 2025 Zócalo Book Prize winner Jean-Martin Bauer at 6 p.m., at the 5th floor boardroom of the ASU California Center Broadway at the historic Herald Examiner building. The first 20 attendees will receive a free copy of The New Breadline.
Time & Location
May 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
1111 S Broadway, 1111 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
About the event
Food brings people together. But hunger divides—deepening political conflicts, exacerbating inequalities, and destroying communities around the globe. Hunger is also a consequence of many of the most divisive forces in 21st-century life, including globalization, war, mass disease, and environmental loss. What is the relationship between food and community, and could it hold the key to more sustainable ways of feeding people? What will the future of food aid look like, as connections between nations fray and the U.S. adopts a radically new foreign policy? Jean-Martin Bauer, who has managed food programs and worked as a food security analyst for the United Nations World Food Programme around the globe, is the author of The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Centuryand the winner of the 2025 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize. He’ll visit Zócalo to explore the role hunger plays in our world today, and what it takes to…