Food Matters: IHC theme for 2008-2009
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.
Fall 2008 events:
TALK: In Cod We Trust
Brian Fagan (Anthropology, UCSB)
Wednesday, October 29 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Dias de los Muertos event
FILM SCREENING: Food for the Ancestors
Introduction by Sarah Cline (History, UCSB)
Thursday, October 30 / 5:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
SCREENING: The God of Cookery
(Stephen Chow, 1996, 95 minutes)
Monday, November 3 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
ROUNDTABLE: Responses to the Global Food Crisis
Thursday, November 13 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
TALK: Thought for Food: Literature and Gastronomy
Ronald Tobin (French and Italian, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 19 / 4:00 PM
SCREENING: What’s Cooking?
(Gurinder Chadha, 2000, 109 minutes)
Monday, November 24 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
SCREENING: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
(Les Blank, 1980, 51 minutes)
(Presented in Aromarama)
Monday, December 1 / 7:30 PM
MCC Theater
SCREENING: Our Daily Bread
Wednesday, December 3 / 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall
$6/$5 students
Winter 2009:
TALK AND DEMONSTRATION: Something's Brewing in Arabia: A History of Coffee and Coffee Houses
Juan and Magda Campo (Religious Studies)
Wednesday, January 28 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security
February 5-7, 2009
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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
SCREENING: Sustainable LA
Monday, March 2 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
TALK: Growing Places: Not a Cornfield and Farmlab
Janet Owen Driggs and Jeremy Rosenberg (Metabolic Studio)
Thursday, March 5 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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