Food Justice and Climate Change Fall Symposium (Day 1): Pandemic as Portal
This event is free, entirely remote, recorded and open to the public.
Join us via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82536670164
Please join us for the first of a two-day symposium that uses as a central theme Arundhati Roy’s phrase, “The Pandemic as Portal” as a lens to analyze contemporary political economy with a focus on the food system. The last few years have opened our eyes wider to the ways in which food “isn’t just food,” but is intertwined with larger issues like immigration, labor, health, globalization, environmentalism, Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice and more. The pandemic has, for some people, served as a portal, exposing inequities and injustices, laying bare the bankruptcy of the neoliberal vision. Historically, times of crises served as opportunities for deep social transformation.
Schedule:
Wednesday, Oct. 19
11am-1pm
Food Justice and Climate Change: Pandemic as Portal Symposium – Day 1
- Keynote: Dr. Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) University of Washington,
- introduced by Kara Briggs, MPA Tribal Governance, Evergreen’s Vice President for Tribal Relations, Arts and Cultures
1:30-3pm
Round-Table: Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Food Systems, Human and Environmental Health with:
- Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot) Indigenous nutritionist and food sovereignty advocate
- Emma Johnson (Cowlitz) GRuB
- Elise Krohn, Wild Foods and Medicines Program Greener grad and Director for GRuB
- And other special guests hosted by Kendra Aguilar, MPA Tribal Governance, Evergreen faculty member in Native Pathways
7-9pm
Workshop: Food and Climate Justice with Dr. Anthony Levenda, Director of Evergreen’s Center for Climate Action and Sustainability, joined by:
- Dr. Dvera Saxton, a researcher with California Institute for Rural Studies
- Dr. Tomás Alberto Madrigal, Food Systems Researcher with Community to Community Development
- Jennifer Martinez-Medina, Portland State University Ph.D candidate involved in the Oregon COVID-19 Farmworker Study
For questions, please reach out to the symposium planners Dr. Frederica Bowcutt (bowcuttf@evergreen.edu) and Dr. Prita Lal (lalp@evergreen.edu).
