American and Indigenous Studies Program Presents

Food & Memory

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 
More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad

Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future.
The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located.
The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.