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Food Matters: How Food Shapes Our Lives and the World

Monday, March 30, 2015 - 11:00am to 5:30pm

Location:
Whitsett Room, Sierra Hall, 4th floor
Cost:
Free

Global Studies and Sustainability GE Paths Present
The Second Annual GE Paths Learning Community Symposium

Food Matters: How Food Shapes Our Lives and the World

Image of green apple with world map on it.View event flyer (.pdf)

This symposium is the culminating event in a year-long interdisciplinary exploration of the ways that we shape and are shaped by our relationships to food. Join the Global Studies and Sustainability GE Paths for a look at these issues as they are discussed in some exciting lectures and a student poster exhibition. To kick off the day in a healthy way, there will be a faculty-student game of “Glo-Volley” (a silly version of volleyball played with a gigantic beach ball). Please join us for a stimulating and fun day!

TimeEvent
11:00am-12:00pmStudent-Faculty game of “GloVolley” (Oviatt Lawn)
12:30pm-12:45pmOfficial Welcome (Whitsett Room, CSBS)
12:45pm-1:15pm

“Food Matters Across the Globe”

Dr. Mutombo N’Kulu-N’Sengha (Religious Studies, CSUN): “Dietary Laws, Taboos and “Food Theology” in African World Religions”
Dr. Peri Klemm (Art, CSUN): “Food and Ritual in Papua New Guinea”
Dr. Sanchi Adhikari (Geography, CSUN) “Food and India”

2:00pm-3:15pmGuest Speaker:  Dr. Molly Doane (Anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago); “Farming and Food Sovereignty in Oaxaca, Mexico”
3:15pm-4:00pmStudent Poster Presentations
4:00pm-5:15pmKitty Morse, Award Winning Cookbook Author; “A Taste of the Kasbah. Discussion of Moroccan Cuisine and Demonstration”
5:15pm-5:30pm Awards Ceremony for graduating Global Studies path students

Communication services are available for this event. For this and other information contact Suzanne Scheld, Global Studies GE Path Coordinator; ; 818-677-4935