Food Sustainability & Food Security Feb 5-7 ,2009
http://english.ucsb.edu/faculty/acarruth/food_conference/program/index.htm
In response to current international conflicts over hunger, food
prices, and genetically modified seeds, the matter of food has become
central to both environmental and economic policymaking. In this context,
the interdisciplinary field of food studies has a new purchase. This
conference will gather some of the country's leading food scholarsmany
of whom are affiliated with the UC systemto examine the meaning of food
sustainability in particular regional contexts from Africa to the Middle
East to the Americas. The conference will provide a timely occasion for
scholars from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences as well as
activists and farmers to dialogue about the global food system in both
contemporary and historical contexts.
Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center, McCune Room HSSB 6020
Thursday night film screening will be in Girvetz Hall Theater.
Program begins at 12:30 p.m. on February 5
All events free and open to the public unless otherwise
indicated.
“Can Food Be a Force for Social Change?”
Keynote Address: 2/5, 4:30-6:00 p.m in the
McCune Room
Darra Goldstein, PhD
Professor of Russian at Williams College +
Founding Editor of
Gastronomica: The Journal of
Food and Culture
Film Screening of The
Garden
2/5, 8:00 p.m. in
Girvetz
Hall Theater
Conference Organizer
Allison Carruth, PhD
allisoncarruth@english.ucsb.edu
Conference Sponsors
- Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara
- Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, UC Santa Barbara
- American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, UC Santa Barbara
- Intel Research: People and Practices
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
an educational
non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees,
we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous