Food Matters: Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UC Sa

For the 2008-2009 academic year, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UC Santa Barbara is presenting a series of talks and events on the theme Food Matters. Topics will include food production and consumption, food as a commodity, the global food crisis, environmental aspects of food production, slow food, gardens, sustainability, farmers markets, diet and the cultural history of food.
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/foodmatters.html

TALK: Maize and Migration: Connections between Traditional Maize Farming in Mexico and Immigrant Labor in California
Mary O’Connor (ISBER, UCSB)
Daniela Soleri (Geography, UCSB)
Thursday, February 12, 2009 / 4:00 PM

TALK: Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: The Triumphs of French Cuisine from Carême to Ratatouille
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (Sociology, Columbia University)
Wednesday, February 25 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Marion Nestle (Nutrition, Food Studies, NYU), author of What to Eat
Thursday, February 26, 2009 / 7:30 PM
Marjorie Luke Theater

CONFERENCE: Food Matters: Arts, Activism and Research
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Friday, May 1, 2009

TALK: The Kitchen Sisters (NPR)
Thursday, May 7, 2009 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Rebel Without a Cuisine: Julia Child and the Making of the American Cook
Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad