Panel: Food Studies for Thought

Please note this event will take place on the 7th Floor of the Hall Building, just outside the CSU office!

Food is fundamental to the human experience, and yet how much do we know about what and how we eat? The study of food is an interdisciplinary exploration in applied, creative, and developmental research/action related to all things food. With it, we are able to address the root structures of our modern socio-political and economic crises, find a place for ourselves and our communities within history making, and are collaboratively rethinking and redesigning food systems for a liveable future.

Join us for the opening panel of Bite ME! 2017, the Concordia Food Coalition`s week long orientation series on food system transformation. Food Studies For Thought invites professors and staff members who are leading the way for the creation of food studies program at Concordia University.

To learn more about the free workshops, public lectures, and social events offered throughout the week visit:

https://www.facebook.com/events/128005644499946/

Moderator
Christale Terris, Education & Engagement Coordinator for the Concordia Food Coalition and current Project Manger for the Concordia Farmer’s Market.

Panelists

Rhona Richman Kenneally is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia, and a Fellow of the School of Canadian Irish Studies. She is also Editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Rhona’s research brings together the domains of food studies, food design, sustainable design practice, and the architecture and design of the built environment, to explore food-related agency and performance. Her food-related lectures, publications, and teaching address several areas of investigation. Some explore the implications that remembered domestic “foodscapes” of one’s childhood have on subsequent food-related engagement, and have inspired design prototypes that implicate children more directly in daily home food practices.

Alan Nash: My research focuses on restaurants in Montreal. As a cultural geographer (with an interest in how different ideas of “place” shape our lives), I have examined the city’s evolving restaurant scene reflects patterns of immigration’s various ideas of “place” – whether it be the city where we live, or (if we are from where we come from – and how they affect our notions of public and private space.

Anya Zilberstein: In my second book project, I am investigating the political economy of food and the early food sciences. Fodder for Empire: Feeding People Like Other Animals examines the history of experiments with producing cheap, high-calorie food after the mid-eighteenth century, when the unprecedented expansion of Britain’s colonial territories intensified the problem of food security, particularly for provisioning the working subjects and animals of the empire.

Pamela Tudge is a PhD student in Concordia University’s Individualized Program, an adjunct professor in the faculty of Fine Arts, and an active member of Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. Pamela’s research areas include design activism, new media art and history with food-based social movements as a thread that runs through these disciplines. Her current research employs material- and media-based practices to explore understandings of domestic food practices and space, which investigate different interpretations of between food and waste creation.

Katherine Hall

Satoshi Ikeda