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Food Forum seminar

Key information

Date
to
Time
1:15 pm to 2:45 pm
Venue
Online or SOAS campus (see schedule)
Event type
Seminar

About this event

SOAS Food Studies Centre weekly seminars

These seminars are not hybrid. They take place either in-person in room R301 (Main Building) or online - please check the schedule below.

For online seminars only: 

  • Zoom link
    • Meeting ID: 912 2070 7523
    • Passcode: SFY1ykHpJ9

Schedule

Date and timeSpeakerSeminar titleLocation
19 January, 1.15pm-2.45pmDr Sarah Czerny (University of Rijeka)‘Vegan Microbes: On Where to Draw the Line?’Online
26 January, 1.15pm-2.45pmDr Charlotte Sanders (SOAS)‘Hard to Stomach: Food and Embodied Violence in UK Asylum Hotel Accommodation’R301
2 February, 1.15pm-2.45pmDr Tom Scott-Smith (Oxford)‘A Hunger-Free World? John Boyd Orr’s Radical Plan for the Global Food System, and How It Fell Apart’R301
9 February, 1.15pm-2.45pmUrsula Arens (British Dietetic Association)‘What is a Healthy Sustainable Diet? The Position of UK Dietitians’R301
16 February, 1.15pm-2.45pmProfessor Naomi Hossain (SOAS)‘The Political Effects of Famine’R301
2 March, 1.15pm-2.45pmProfessor Aeyal Gross (SOAS)‘The Right to Food: Between Availability and Access’R301
9 March, 1.15pm-2.45pmIrina Janakievska (food writer and author of The Balkan Kitchen)‘The Balkan Kitchen as Archive: Tracing Cuisine Through History, Conflict, Migration, Memory and Loss’R301
13 April, 1.15pm-2.45pmDr Tamer Abd Elkreem (University of Khartoum), Dr Susanne Jaspars (SOAS) and Dr Christina Sathyamala (IHD New Delhi)‘Digitalising Food Assistance: Failing the Poor and Feeding Capital. Analysis from Sudan, India and England’Online
20 April, 1.15pm-2.45pmDr Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh (Exeter)‘Economies of Care: Gifts are to Commodities as Beans are to Broccoli'R301