2do Colóquio de Antropologia e Etnologia de la Alimentación

Associação para uma Antropologia da Comida e da Nutrição

About SAFN

Overview

The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), was organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition. SAFN has the following objectives:

• To encourage research and exchange of ideas, theories, methods and scientific information relevant to understanding the socio-cultural, behavioral and political-economic factors related to food and nutrition;
• To provide a forum for communication and interaction among scientists sharing these interests and with other appropriate organizations;
• To promote practical collaboration among social and nutritional scientists at the fields and program levels.

Current Officers

John Brett
President
University of Colorado Denver
Department of Anthropology
John.Brett@ucdenver.edu

Sera Young
Vice-President
Cornell University
Division of Nutritional Sciences
sera.young@cornell.edu
www.serayoung.org

Kenneth Maes
SAFN Treasurer
Oregon State University
Anthropology
kenneth.maes@oregonstate.edu

2004 Name Change

To more fully engage the spectrum of theoretical and methodological perspectives of individuals AAA-wide, at the 2003 meetings a motion was made by the then CNA Executive Board to put a name change to a vote by its membership during the spring 2004 AAA Elections. The ballot question was passed and changed the organization’s name from ‘Council on Nutritional Anthropology’ (CNA) to ‘Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition’ (SAFN).

+ INfos: http://foodanthro.com/

História da Alimentação

...em dois minutos!

Food, Drink and Hospitality: Space, Materiality, Practice

The event will take place on Friday the 14th of June at the British Sociological Association's London Meeting Room. 

The event is being organised in association with Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University, the British Sociological Association's Food Study Group and the Hospitality & Society journal. 

Further details about the venue, the cost and booking arrangements can be found at the end of the post.

Programme 

09.15 Arrival and refreshments

09.45 Welcome (Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

10.00 Session 1

Tastes of the ‘mongrel’ city: Geographies of memory, spice, hospitality and forgiveness

Jean Duruz

Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Australia

The smell of hospitality: A phenomenological analysis of gjellëtore in Kosova

Arsim Canolli,

Department of Anthropology, University College of London, UK 

11.00 Break  

11.15 Session 2

“Luxurious simplicity”: Self-sufficient food practices and hospitality in Italian ecovillages

Alice Brombin

Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

Poverty entered our homes! Creating hospitable spaces and managing the current economic, social and political crisis in Greece

Vasiliki Kravva

Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Food, gender and refugee community moments

Hannah Lewis

School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Session 3

Practicing conviviality: Notes from the public spaces of ‘pay-what-you want’ restaurants

Regan Koch

Department of Geography, University College London, UK

Quantifying the organoleptic triangle: Inputs, outputs and user experience

Baudouin C. R. Neirynck and Mark A. M. Gibson

Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau SAR, PR of China

Extraordinary restaurants as sites of friendship

Andrea Tonner

Department of Marketing, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

15.15 Break

15.30 Session 4

Fierce Craic in Clapham – A sociological investigation

Marie Bune and Brendan Ruane

Faculty of Business, London South Bank University, UK

Postcard imagery – A twentieth century visual culinary and social history

Paul Cleave

Business School, University of Exeter, UK 

A “Gift from God”? : Tradition and pragmatism in Georgian hospitality

Costanza Curro

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

17.00 Closing comments and discussion

Participants are invited to drinks and an informal meal after the event, but the cost of these are not included in the event fee.

Venue address: Suite 2, 2 Station Court, Imperial Wharf, Townmead Road, Fulham, SW6 2PY

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25083/BSA_Imperial_Wharf_directions041209.pdf

Cost (including lunch and refreshments): £45 (£35 for students and BSA members)

Booking: http://shop.brookes.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=81&deptid=27&catid=34 (Places are limited and you are advised to book as soon as possible. The deadline for booking for a place is the 7th of June)

Online version of the programme:http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/51781/Food_Programme_030413.pdf 

Fully-funded PhD studentships at Cardiff School of Planning & Geography

Cardiff School of Planning & Geography have a number of fully-funded PhD studentships available in the school for the 2013/14 academic year related to food security, rural/urban flows and community food growing & animal farming (deadline 4pm Friday 3rd May 2013).

The School of Planning & Geography (CPLAN) will be the home school for these studentship positions. With around 60 research-active staff and around 50 research students, the School is a major international centre for research in the areas of human geography, planning and spatial policy. Consistently ranked among the top departments in the UK in successive Research Assessment Exercises, it aims to play an internationally leading role in research and academic inquiry associated with debates around the development, management and sustainability of cities, regions and rural spaces. Often taking an interdisciplinary approach, the School’s current research expertise includes: environmental governance, geographies of food, more-than-human geographies, regional resilience, economic development and regional competitiveness, social and environmental justice, spatial planning, urban design and the integration and visualisation of spatial data.

Further information on these studentships and how to apply can be found at: 

http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R1054.html

The International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF)

The general aims of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF)are to promote and coordinate collaboration and research in biological and social anthropology in regard to the sciences of food and nutrition, fostering in particular a pluridisciplinary approach.

ICAF is a commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)

Honorary Members:

Mary Douglas - Igor de Garine - Annie Hubert

further information will be available soon 

What's new (March 2013) see on: http://www.icafood.eu/

 

The Aims of ICAF

The aims of the Commission are :

•	To assist world anthropologists in their basic and applied research on food.
•	To encourage indigenous expertise on food problems in developing countries.
•	To promote the collaboration of anthropologists with institutions and individual experts from related fields of study.
•	To stimulate education and training in the anthropology of food.

Anthropologists, with their traditional interest in the place of food in social life, are giving renewed attention to food in international development. The Commission was set up to coordinate their work on food studies, world hunger, and malnutrition.

Biological and social anthropologists are interested in the way food supplies may be affected by changes in energy systems, market structure, public policies, family composition, and women's roles, as well as by technological change.

The mandate of the commission calls for basic and applied research on food production, storage, exchange, feeding, and food symbolism in the light of major structural changes. This includes nutritional studies of vulnerable segments of the population : mothers and young children, the industrial poor, and the rural poor.

One special focus is the changing ethic regarding food in international development. Consequently, it involves experts, and development specialists. Above all, it is a central concern of ICAF to make anthropologists' work on food available to policy and planning agencies, both governmental and international, and to exchange information with them on a continuing basis.

Organisation

The Commission is international. The President is Helen Macbeth and the General Secretary is Frederic Duhart . The international Treasurer is Paul Collinson The organisational structure is developing. The general plan is one of regional sections, within which there are national committees or representatives.

Some national committees or representatives do not find themselves logically within one of the existing regional sections. In such cases the national committee is described as “in contact with”, rather than “within”, a regional section of its choice. The situation with regard to national committees and regional sections is always developing. The current position can be checked within this WebSite and we welcome updated information.

An annual report is written by the Commissioner to the Secretary-General of IUAES. For this report each national committee or representative should provide annual information to the Chair of its regional section. The Chair of that regional section, on request from the Commissioner, then gives a regional report to the Commissioner.

ICAF(Europe) has worked with this system longest and its structure of national committees is most advanced and still developing. This has meant a productive series of conferences each organised by a different national committee or representative. From these conferences several books (see ICAF Publications) have been published, and the series is continuing.

ICAF Europe organisational structure:

• Chair:
  • Xavier Medina
• Deputy Chairs:
  • Wulf Schiefenhövel
• Secretary:
  • Ruth Kutalek
• Treasurer:
  • Marion Demossier

ICAF for Australasia and the Pacific was convened in May 1980 at the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS). Some Links have been maintained in regard to the anthropology of food, but a structure like that of ICAF(Europe) is now envisaged.

ICAF (Latin America) has some very active members among whom a more formal structure will now be considered. We await further information.

The situation in North America needs to be clarified as there exist other very active associations with whom individuals have useful contact.

Some other larger or smaller regional sections have been discussed and further groupings are encouraged and anticipated. To discuss such possibilities or initiate a new grouping contact should be made to the General Secretary, Annie Hubert. To initiate a new national committee send an email either to the appropriate regional Chair or to the General Secretary.

However, all these structures are structures that must be based on paid-up membership. National committees are responsible for collecting membership fees. To become a member of ICAF, please contact your national committee or representative or the Chair of the regional section or the General Secretary, Frederic Duhart. Membership years shall begin on lst July. ICAF will pay for group membership of IUAES.

COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL ANTROPOLOGIA DA ALIMENTAÇÃO

COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL

ANTROPOLOGÍA DE LA ALIMENTACIÓN

 

22 al 24 de mayo

UAM-Xochimilco

Ciudad de México

 

Coordinadores:

Dra. Miriam Bertran Vilá. UAM-X

Dra. Virginia García Acosta. CIESAS

Dr. Charles-Edouard de Sureiman. IRD, France

 

La complejidad de los sistemas alimentarios, desde la producción hasta el consumo,  y sus efectos en distintos ámbitos requieren que se analice desde diferentes perspectivas. El análisis antropológico ha sido una alternativa que ha ido generando datos para comprender dicha complejidad, aunque al mismo tiempo se han planteado nuevas preguntas. En la sociedad contemporánea, la globalización, la expansión de la distribución y el consumo, la seguridad alimentaria, las formas de producción y sus efectos, así como la convivencia de la obesidad con procesos de hambre y desnutrición, multiplican los retos de la investigación sobre las formas de producir, distribuir, preparar y consumir los alimentos.

 

Objetivos: Reunir a reconocidos investigadores de los aspectos socioculturales de la alimentación, desde la producción hasta el consumo, para presentar los avances de investigación, generar un espacio de intercambio académico, definir líneas de investigación pertinentes, establecer redes de colaboración interinstitucional a nivel nacional e internacional.

 

En diversas instituciones de México y con distinto grado de avance se hacen estudios del proceso alimentario desde la antropología social. En este momento, quiénes estamos trabajando en el área requerimos hacer grupos de investigación interinstitucionales para aprovechas las experiencias y los recursos con los que contamos. Es una idea compartida que es un área que tiene un gran potencial, genera interés y puede aportar conocimientos útiles para las políticas y programa de alimentación, nutrición, salud y desarrollo social. Sin embargo, hasta ahora no ha habido un espacio que nos reúna a todos.

 

Áreas temáticas:

-        Producción de alimentos y desarrollo rural sustentable

-        Cambio continuidad de las dietas tradicionales ante la globalización

-        Alimentación, cultura y salud: entre la obesidad y la desnutrición.

-        Efectos sociales de la patrimonialización de las cocinas locales.

-        Crisis económicas y reorganización de la alimentación familiar

-        Soberanía y seguridad alimentaria

 

Formato:

 

2 días de conferencias en el auditorio de la UAM-X, para integrar a toda la comunidad universitaria y público en general.

1 día de seminario con participantes escogidos: ponentes extranjeros, investigadores de otras instituciones mexicanas participantes, estudiantes de posgrado. Esta reunión se pretende que sea en la Casa Galván de la UAM en la colonia Roma.

 

Instituciones participantes:

 

-        Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Xochimilco. México

-        Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. México

-        Observatorio de la alimentación. Universidad de Barcelona. España

-        Universidad Iberoamericana

-        Institut de recherche pour le développement. Francia

 

COMITÉ CIENTIFICO

 

Dra. Miriam Bertran Vilá

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Xochimilco. México

 

Dr. Jesús Contreras Hernández.

Observatorio de la Alimentación. Universidad de Barcelona

 

Dra. Ma. Eunice Maciel.

Universidad Federal de Rio Grande del Sur. Brasil

 

Dra. Teresa Ochoa Rivera

Universidad Iberoamericana. México

 

Dra. Sara Elena Pérez-Gil Romo

Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán. México

 

Dr. Charles-Edouard de Suremain

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). Francia

 

Dra. Virginia García Acosta

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. México

 

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Antropologia Médica e Alimentação

Cosmopolitismo proletário e a cozinha mexicana

Publicación de Norma Paéz:
"¡Hola!, a propósito de gastronomía mexicana, les invito a leer "¡Tacos, joven! Cosmopolitismo proletario y la cocina nacional mexicana", una investigación de Jeffyer Pilcher, académico de la Universidad de Minesota. Ésta fue publicada en el volumen 37 de la revista Dimensión Antropológica, para adquirir un ejemplar puedes acudir a las librerías del INAH, o si lo prefieres, puedes consultar:

http://www.dimensionantropologica.inah.gob.mx/?p=460

vamos a leer, sería un gusto que nos compartieras tus impresiones de la lectura a este artículo. Buen día. Para mayor información me encuentras en la Coordinación Nacional de Antropología que se ubica en la Delegación Magdalena Contreras al 40 40 54 00 ext. 4367, saludos de Norma Páez."

Food, Drink and Hospitality: Space, Materiality, Practice

Friday 14^th June 2013, 10-5pm, British Sociological Association Meeting Room, London

Organised in conjunction with Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University, The British Sociological Association’s Food Study Group and the Hospitality & Society Journal.

Key dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Thursday 28^th of February 2013

Deadline for registration of presenters: Friday 26^th of April 2013

Call for Papers

Philosophical enquiry has enriched our understanding of hospitality – providing intellectual legitimacy to its study while broadening interest in the topic (Barnett, 2005; Derrida, 2001; Dikeç et al., 2009). However this has led to abstract re-conceptualisations of hospitality and a tendency to use notions of hospitality to view relations at national, regional and city scales rather than at the level of everyday micro-geographies involving transactions of food and drink. Moreover, this body of work has tended to treat philosophical debates surrounding hospitality and society separately from commercial practices. Meanwhile, academics concerned with commercial hospitality have largely ignored abstract philosophical debates and perspectives. Several studies have attempted to create links between abstract and more mundane, tangible conceptions of hospitality and between its social and commercial manifestations (Bell, 2007; Germann Molz and Gibson, 2007; Lashley et al., 2007; Lugosi, 2009; Lynch et al., 2011) and this event seeks to build on this emerging body of work. We invite colleagues to explore the complex interactions between food, drink and hospitality, and to make explicit connections between the abstract and philosophical dimensions of hospitality and its material, embodied and sensual practices. We are keen to develop cross-disciplinary dialogue and we encourage contributions from colleagues working in sociology, anthropology, geography, history, philosophy, cultural and media studies, gender studies, business and management, design, literary studies, health and nutrition and psychology, as well as related fields.     

We welcome empirical and theoretical works adopting a variety of different theoretical approaches and methods, including, but not limited to: Ethnographic, Symbolic Interactionist, Actor-Network Theory, Discourse Analysis, Visual Methods, Phenomenological, Post-Colonial, Critical Theory and Gender Studies Perspectives. Papers may examine historical and contemporary contexts, and comparative, cross-cultural studies are particularly welcome. We strongly encourage contributions from emerging as well as established scholars, and the presentation of works-in-progress as well as more advanced studies.

The event will take place at the British Sociological Association’s London Meeting Room on Friday 14^th of June 2013, Suite 2, 2 Station Court, Imperial Wharf, Townmead Road, Fulham, SW6 2PY. Please follow this link for directions and travel advice: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25083/BSA_Imperial_Wharf_directions041209.pdf

The cost of the event, which includes lunch and refreshments, is: £45 (Standard) and £35 (Students and BSA members). Participants can register online:http://shop.brookes.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=81&deptid=27&catid=34

Please send initial expressions of interest or enquiries to Peter Lugosi (plugosi@brookes.ac.uk). Those wishing to present a paper at the workshop should send an abstract, approximately 500 words in length, to Peter Lugosi by Thursday the 28th of February 2013. Presenters of accepted papers should register by Friday the 26th of April 2013. Colleagues around the world have asked whether they could present via Skype and we will consider holding one or two presentations using this format.

Contributors will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to a future edition of the Hospitality & Society Journal: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=194/view,page=2/

References

Barnett, C. (2005). Ways of relating: Hospitality and the acknowledgement of otherness. Progress in Human Geography, 29, 5–21.

Bell, D. (2007). The hospitable city: Social relations in commercial settings. Progress in Human Geography, 31, 7-22.

Derrida, J. (2001). On cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. New York: Routledge.

Dikeç, M., Clark, N. and Barnett, C. (2009). (Eds.) Extending hospitality: Giving space, taking time. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Germann-Molz, J. and Gibson, S. (2007). (Eds) Mobilizing hospitality: The ethics of social relations in a mobile world. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Lashley, C., Lynch, P. and Morrison, A. (2007). (Eds) Hospitality: A social lens. Oxford: Elsevier.

Lugosi, P. (2009). The production of hospitable space: Commercial propositions and consumer co-creation in a bar operation. Space and Culture, 12, 396-411.

Lynch, P., Germann Molz, J., McIntosh, A., Lugosi, P. and Lashley, C. (2011). Theorising hospitality. Hospitality and Society, 1, 3-24.

Children’s Food Conference

Tuesday 19 March 2013, Grand Connaught Rooms, London
Book your place now at: http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/advice/conference

Too often children are hungry: missing breakfast and not getting a hot meal outside of school or in the holidays, and so their education and health are suffering.

Through interactive workshops, presentations and an exhibition – we will look at how to help prevent food poverty through work in schools, nurseries and other places serving food to children, and how to engage these young people and make sure their voices are heard.

Confirmed speakers include:
Henry Dimbleby, co-founder LEON restaurant, currently on assignment from the Secretary of State for Education to review all aspects of food in schools
Janey Thornton, Deputy Under Secretary, Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, United States Department of Agriculture
Dave Payne, father of school dinner blogger Martha Payne
Carmel McConnell, social entrepreneur and founder of Magic Breakfast
Jay Rayner, Observer journalist, food expert for The One Show and Masterchef critic

Costs:
• Early bird rate: £200 before 4 February 2013
• Third sector discount rate: £150
• Full Price: £250
• Webcasts viewing: £100

Places are limited so we invite you to book early and take advantage of our low cost early bird delegate rates.

Who will be there?
The conference is for decision makers and practitioners around children’s food including policy makers, think tanks, health professionals, childcare practitioners and providers, local authorities, directors of children’s services and public health, and health and children’s charities.

More information and how to book:
Visit:  http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/advice/conference
Or call: 0114 2996901
Email: events@childrensfoodtrust.org.uk

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Emerging Perspectives in Food Studies

Student, Postdoc and Emerging Researchers Pre-Conference
In Association with the Canadian Association for Food Studies
Victoria, British Columbia, University of Victoria
June 1, 2013, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: $25 (lunch and snacks included)

The Canadian Association for Food Studies is hosting a full-day pre-conference open to all students, postdocs and emerging researchers (including new faculty, sessionals, and  community-based researchers). The pre-conference will be divided into two streams and participants are encouraged to choose the stream that fits best with their stage of work and their interests (participants must choose only one stream). To participate in this pre-conference you must register on the congress website (registration begins January 2013). If you are interested in participating in Stream 2 you must also submit a proposal by March 31, 2013 (see attached for the Call for Proposals).

Stream 1 – Participants in this stream will engage in a series of participatory, discussion-based workshops facilitated by leading food studies researchers. This session tentatively includes the following consecutive workshops:
● Mutually supportive advisor-student relationships (Stephane McLachlan, University of Manitoba)
● Teaching, learning and doing food studies  (Steffanie Scott, University of Waterloo and Lenore Newman, University of the Fraser Valley)
● Interdisciplinarity and diversity within food related research (Aleck Ostry, University of Victoria)
● The impact of research beyond the academy (Marjorie McDonald, University of Victoria)

*Stream 2 – Participants in this stream will engage in a collaborative writing process to produce an edited collection for publication. Participants in this stream must submit a proposal by March 31, 2013 and are encouraged to explore collaborations in advance. The session will include:
1 Facilitated workshops on collaborative publishing (Hannah Wittman, University of British Columbia) and collaborative research (Patricia Allen, Maylhurst University).
2 Interactive workshops to develop collaborative writing projects.
3 Updates and discussion about the process for developing an edited collection for publication.

*Note: To participate in Stream 2 you should be willing to commit to working with one or two other participants to develop a manuscript over the next year, for publication in an edited collection. Please see the Call for Proposals (attached) as a requirement for this stream.

Registration is limited for both streams.

For questions, please contact cafsadmin@foodstudies.ca.

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Food and Immigrant Life: The Role of Food in Forced Migration, Migrant Labor, and Recreating Home

The conference will examine the complex relationships between food and migration. Food scarcity is not only at the root of much human displacement and migration—the food industry also offers immigrants an entry point into the U.S. economic system and it, simultaneously, confines migrants to low wages and poor, if not unsafe, work conditions. In addition, food allows immigrants to maintain their cultural identity. The conference places issues of immigration and food service work in the context of a broader social justice agenda and explores the cultural role food plays in expressing cultural heritage.
The keynote address will be given by Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first Vice President Emeritus of United Farm Workers of America, on Thursday, April 18 at 6:00pm.
Conference participants include Aurora Almendral, Sean Basinski, Yong Chen,Alexandra Délano, Hasia Diner, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, James C. Hathaway, Saru Jayaraman, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Arup Maharatna, Fabio Parasecoli, Jeffrey Pilcher, Dwaine Plaza, Krishnendu Ray, Monique Truong, Koko Warner, and Tiphanie Yanique. The complete conference program and speakers' bios are available online.
The New School’s Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies Program presents this conference in collaboration with the Writing Program, India China Institute, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Center for New York City Affairs, Global Studies Program, Gender Studies Program, and International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC).
The New School, 80 Fifth Avenue, Room 501, New York, NY 10011

Food and Immigrant Life Conference Program

Thursday, April 18, 2013

2:15-5:00 p.m. Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Session 1: FOOD SCARCITY AND MIGRATION
Throughout history, lack of food has led to population migration. Today migrant workers play a crucial role in food production, often working under extreme conditions and out of the public eye.
A. Food Scarcity and Migration
Arup Maharatna, professor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (India); author, The Demography of Famines: An Indian Historical Perspective (OUP, 1996)

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B. Climatic Change, Food and Livelihood Insecurity, and Human Mobility: New Findings and Implications for Policy
Koko Warner, head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section, United Nations University–Institute for Environment and Human Security

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C. International Refugee Law and the Right to Food
James Hathaway, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, University of Michigan Law School
Moderator: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, professor of international affairs, The New School for Public Engagement
6:00-7:30 p.m. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Session 2: KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON THE PLIGHT OF MIGRANT FARMWORKERS
In the United States, the restaurant industry and the agricultural industry, including the increasingly numerous farmers' markets, depend on migrant workers. They perform most of the hard physical work, usually out of view of the consumer, while their position in society is marginal at best.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder (with César Chávez) and first vice president emeritus, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW); president, Dolores Huerta Foundation
Moderator: Saru Jayaraman, director, Food Labor Research Center, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education; co-founder and co-director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United); author, Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press)

Friday, April 19, 2013

10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Session 3: FOOD BUSINESS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM: GATEWAY OR OBSTACLE?
Migrants engage in small-scale food production and open small restaurants as a way of achieving economic independence and creating economic opportunities for their children.
A. Migrant Workers in the Kitchen
Saru Jayaraman, director, Food Labor Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education; co-founder and co-director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United); author, Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press)
B. Migrant Women's Labor
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Basil S. Turner Professor of Management, Krannert School of Management & Research, and director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, Purdue University

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C. The Immigrant Restaurateur and the American City: Taste, Toil, and the Politics of Inhabitance
Krishnendu Ray, associate professor and chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University; author, The Migrant's Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households (Temple University Press, 2004)
D. New York City Food Cart Vendors
Sean Basinski, lawyer; founder and director, Street Vendor Project, Urban Justice Center
Moderator: Alexandra Délano, assistant professor of global studies and coordinator, International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC), The New School for Social Research; author, Mexico and Its Diaspora (CUP, 2011)
Your Food Is on Its Way
12:45-2:45 p.m. (Vera List Courtyard, adjacent to the John Tishman auditorium lobby) The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents a project by artist Annie Shaw on the livelihoods of deliverymen in the food industry. Food delivery is part of the fabric of life in New York City, a service provided by a transient workforce that remains largely invisible to the public it serves. The very statement “your food is on its way” avoids any reference to the person delivering the meals. This project exposes the material reality of four individual deliverymen's physical labor through the tools they use, the routes they take, the money they make, the languages they speak, and the food they consume.
2:45-5:00 p.m. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Session 4: RE-CREATING HOME IN THE UNITED STATESMany immigrants cope with the dislocation and disorientation they experience by using food to re-create a sense of home and identity. This panel explores how migrant cultures produce and reproduce a familiar sense of place in their domestic environment through cooking and other food-related practices.
A. Food, Identity, and Cultural Reproduction
Fabio Parasecoli, associate professor and coordinator of Food Studies, The New School for Public Engagement; author of The History of Food in Italy: Place, Power, Identity (forthcoming)
B. "Old Stock" Tamales and Migrant Tacos: Preserving Traditions in the Nineteenth-Century Southwest and Recreating Home in Present-Day “Manhatitlán”
Jeffrey Pilcher, professor of history, University of Minnesota; author, Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (OUP, 2012)

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C. "Roti and Doubles" as Comfort Foods for the Trinidadian Diaspora in Canada and the United States
Dwaine Plaza, professor of sociology, Oregon State University

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D. Re-creating the Chinese Home
Yong Chen, associate professor of history and Asian American studies, University of California, Irvine; author, Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943: A Transpacific Community (Stanford, 2000)
Moderator: Hasia Diner, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies and history, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, and director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, New York University
6:00-7:30 p.m.  Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Session 5: WRITERS ON FOOD AND MIGRATIONA panel of notable writers read fiction and nonfiction in which food is used to explore community building, alienation, and assimilation among immigrants to the United States and other countries. The panel is presented by the School of Writing at The New School for Public Engagement.
Panelists:
Aurora Almendral, freelance writer, documentary film director, and journalist for Feet in 2 Worlds
Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) and The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody's Daughter (Beacon Press, 2006)
Tiphanie Yanique, assistant professor, School of Writing; author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf Press, 2010)
Moderator: Luis Jaramillo, associate chair, Writing Program, The New School; co-editor of the journal The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food