Fuego y Lena// Slow Burn
Food, Justice, and Sovereignty in the Americas
VIRTUAL: September 24-25, 2020
Food is foundational to society, culture, and the individual body. Harvesting, rearing, cooking, and eating are not only deeply social and communal acts but also political endeavors that make manifest societal inequities. From the smallest family unit to the global stage, food is an issue of justice. Food sovereignty is central to the ways we think about the environment and the challenges of sustainability in the 21st century. Food is a radically destabilizing category that challenges established binaries between human and nonhuman, nature and culture, and animate and inanimate. Food is a marker of identity and an opportunity for creative expression enabling artists to develop and deliver a multisensory experience.
Conceptualizing food from a transnational perspective illuminates the imbalances of power between colonial trade practices and colonized groups, North and South, theory and practice. Transnational perspectives speaks to the collaborations and conflicts that emerge at the cross-national, gender, racial, generational connections throughout the Americas.
Slow burn - A fuego lento - Em fogo baixo
Slow burn is an image that refers to a careful process of cooking. It represents patience, ancestral knowledge, the simmering pot. This conference invites us to question how slow-burn -- as a method-- can improve our practices, challenge our politics, slow-down vertiginous modern times to reflect on our historical, present, and future realities. What does it mean for justice to be on a slow burn? How does placing the myriad issues surrounding food on a slow burn move us closer to justice?
The conference features a keynote panel with scholars, community members, artists, and activists. It includes graduate and undergraduate student research panels and innovative sessions offering different ways of exchanging ideas.
Spanish interpretation is available!
Translator: Paul Iglesias
For more information: [email protected]
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