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"The Urgency of Food Studies Now"

Sponsored by:
Food Studies
How does food provide a lens for looking at environmental and social justice today? Sociologist Erica Morrell reviews the field of Food Studies in the contexts of a global pandemic, rampant inequality, climate change, and systemic racism. What’s food got to do with it?

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Professor Morrell teaches at St. Lawrence University. Click here for more information.

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public

Eating Tomorrow

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Food Studies
Tim Wise, Director of the Land & Food Rights Program at Small Planet Institute and former director of the Research & Policy Program at the Global Development & Environment Institute at Tufts University, will speak on the battle for the future of food between small-scale farmers and agribusiness. He draws from his experiences during an Open Society Fellowship, when he traveled to Mexico, Africa and Iowa. Copies of his new book Eating Tomorrow will be on available.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

FREE

CANCELLED: Why we grow grains: Recreating Paleolithic Flatbreads

Sponsored by:
Food Studies
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!

Join Maria Trumpler, Yale Professor and former Middlebury Dean, to grind flour, bake and enjoy flatbreads in the Knoll’s wood-fired oven while exploring in conversation if the deliciousness of flatbreads might explain the transition from forager-hunters to settled agriculture.

Manifestaciones en Periodo de Caza/Demonstration During Hunting Season

Sponsored by:
Dean of Students, Atwater Commons, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Dance, History of Arts and Architecture, The Center for Community Engagement, American Studies, Education Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Latin American Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies, Food Studies, and Black Studies
In this performance and artist talk, the renowned artistic duo better known as Las Nietas de Nonó will share the visceral motivations of their creative work and artistic practices in recent struggles for equity, visibility, and political change in Puerto Rico and beyond. 

Ilustraciones de la Mecánica takes up the history of medical experimentation and the pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico. It considers in particular the violence inflicted on Black women’s bodies in the name of medical research.

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Open to the Public

Robert Ku Lecture: "Is That Kimchi in My Taco?" A Vision of Korean American Food in One Bite

Sponsored by:
Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, International & Global Studies, and Food Studies
It was not so long ago when Korean food was a minor blip on the radar of American “ethnic” food. In the rare occasions when attention was paid to Korean food, it was often negative, as the media harped on either the stink of kimchi or the inhumaneness of dogmeat. Today, Korean food, and especially the once-maligned kimchi, is all the rage. Consider, for instance, the ubiquity not only of bibimbop and kalbi but the Korean taco.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Knoll Harvest Festival

Sponsored by:
Food Studies
Celebrate fall’s abundance at this year’s Harvest Festival at The Knoll! All are welcome to join in creating art with Knoll Artist in Residence and MiddCore mentor Lisa Condino, pizza making (and eating!) in the wood-fired oven, operating the cider press, and relaxing by a roaring bonfire. Stroll among the late fall gardens, enjoy the evening sky, and take in the beauty and serenity offered by the Knoll.

The Knoll

Open to the Public

"Opening the Earth: The Potato King Documentary" Screening

Sponsored by:
Spanish Department and Food Studies
Come watch “Opening the Earth: the Potato King,” a documentary directed by Aaron Ebner, MIIS alum and founder of the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development. This screening will be followed by a virtual moderated Q&A with food studies professor Molly Anderson. Filmed in Peru, the documentary centers on the story of “the guardian of biodiversity,” farmer Julio Hancco, and how his necessary agricultural work is at odds with our modernizing work.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Closed to the Public