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Shared Tables: A Triangle Symposium on Local and Global Food Studies
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Feb 28, 2012 09:00 AM
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| Where | UNC & Duke |
| Contact Name | Jacqueline Olich |
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Shared Tables: A Triangle Symposium on Local and Global Food Studies provides a forum for both local and global experts to explore key issues related to food studies in an inter-disciplinary academic and community gathering.
The symposium is FREE and open to all students, faculty and community members. We are asking attendees to register, please see our registration page for more information.
Global Food Studies | February 28, 2012
Daytime location: UNC Institute for Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall
Evening location: UNC FedEx Global Education Center
The first day of the symposium at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill explores key issues related to food and sustainability from a global perspective. Symposium participants from academic, business, social media, and NGO backgrounds will engage in a dialogue about global food realities, including how the globalization of the food supply impacts production, economics, practical solutions, safety, security, and sustainability. Tom Philpott of Mother Jones Magazine will address the audience as the keynote speaker that evening, speaking on the world's most recalcitrant problem: how to feed the word in a sustainable manner.
DAY 1: Overview of Programming
Day 1 Morning Session
- 8:00-9:00am: Registration
- 9:00-10:30 am: Food, Technology & Politics in Europe and Beyond, Panel
- 10:45-12:15 pm: Food Security, Sustainable Food Systems & Global Change, Panel
Day 1 Lunch and speaker TBA, 12:30-2:30pm
Day 1 Afternoon Session
- 2:30-4pm: Food or Fuel?: South America, Asia, and the United States, Panel
Day 1 Evening Reception and Keynote
- 5:30-7pm: Reception
- 7-8:30pm: Tom Philpott Evening Keynote
Local and National Food Studies | February 29, 2012
Daytime location: Von Cannon Room, Bryan University Center, Duke University
Evening location: Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan University Center, Duke University
The second day of the symposium at Duke University focuses on sustainable food systems and food cultures both nationally and in our local triangle community. We will hear from students, faculty, and local leaders about policy, grassroots work, and scholarship in food, both in the humanities and social sciences. Will Allen of GROWING POWER will give the keynote address that evening, sharing his experience of building urban farms in Milwaukee, Chicago and beyond.
DAY 2: Overview of Programming
Day 2 Morning Session
- 8:00-9:00: Registration
- 9:00-9:15: Deans Welcome with Dean Patton (Duke) and Dean Rimer (UNC)
- 9:15-10:00: Introduction, Voices of the Triangle Food Movement in our Universities, Panel
- 10:15-11:05: Farm Bill 2012, Panel
- 11:05-noon: Farming in North Carolina, Panel
Day 2 Lunch and Food Writing Panel, noon-1:30pm
Day 2 Afternoon Session
- 1:45-3:15: Food Cultures, Presentations
- 3:30-4:00: Food & Faith, Joint Talk
- 4:00-5:00: Food Access in our Communities, Panel
Keynote Bios:
Will Allen is the Founder and Executive Director of Growing Power, an organization that is transforming local food systems by cultivating, producing and delivering healthy foods to underserved, urban populations in Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and beyond. Named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2008, Allen has worked with Michelle Obama on her Let's Move campaign to fight childhood obesity and has taken his work abroad to strengthen food security for school children in South Africa and Zimbabwe. NYT article.
Tom Philpott is the cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. He currently writes on all things food and agriculture related for Mother Jones Magazine. He was formerly a columnist and editor for the online environmental site Grist and his work on food politics has appeared in Newsweek, Gastronomica, and the Guardian. Food & Wine named Philpott one of "ten innovators" who "will continue to shape the culinary consciousness of our country for the next 30 years." In 2011, he was a finalist for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award—the "Oscars of the food world," as Time put it—in the "Food-Related Columns and Commentary" category.