Hunger Symposium

Research Panel 1    Food and Power, 10:15AM - 12:00PM 

Kristin Reynolds, Food Studies, The New School
"The Elephant at the Table: Policy Pathways to Confront Power in Food Systems”

Sowande Mustakeem, History Department, Washington University in St. Louis
“History, Death's Many Archives: Food & Power, From Slavery at Sea to the Penitentiary,”

Samantha Iyer, History Department, Fordham University
“California Farmworkers and the Fordist Regime of Precarity,”

Alyshia Galvez, Anthropology Department, CUNY
“Separated Families, Foodways Disrupted by Borders, and the Making of Chronic Disease”

Research Panel 2   Hunger and the State, 1:00PM - 2:45PM

Alma Igra, History Department, University of Amsterdam
“Temporalities of Hunger: a View from the 1940s,”

Joshua Lohnes, Geography Department, West Virginia University
“Hunger in the Colonial Present: Food Access and Contemporary Statecraft”

Janet Poppendieck, Sociology Department, CUNY
“Studying Food Assistance in the US: What have I learned?”

 Workshop   Policy and Place, 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Mark Dinglasan, Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of the Food Security Advocate (OFSA)

Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, Executive Director of Stony Brook University’s FoodLab

Joshua Lohnes, Director of the Food Justice Lab at West Virginia University’s Center for Resilient Communities

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