This November Sheila & Sue are part of an online symposium for reflection on the politics and possibilities of gender, class and race in storying food.
About this event
The University of Sussex Business School and the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities), in conjunction with Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network present
An Online Symposium: Storying food: gendered, racialised and classed politics and possibilities
11.30 to 17.30 GMT Wednesday 17th and 13.30 - 16.30 GMT approx. Thursday 18th November 2021 (timings for the work-in-progress session TBC)
Organising Committee: Barbora Adlerova, Cardiff University, Naaz Rashid, University of Sussex, Ruth Segal, University of Sussex, Elaine Swan, University of Sussex and Karen Wilkes, Birmingham City University
Part of the activities of the FoodSEqual UKRI project
Symposium
Day One Wednesday 17th November: Keynotes and group discussions
Keynotes by - Professor Beth Dixon, Dr Sukhmani Khorana and Dr. Tammara Soma
Day Two Thursday 18th November: Workshop and Panel
Storying food panel - scholar-activists discuss the intersections of storytelling about food in very different domains and media
Dr Anna Sulan Masing, Dr Olivia Sheringham and Dr Helen Taylor, and Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer
If you would like to attend the Symposium, please book via eventbrite by November 12th 2021.
Common Salt salt pile and assorted objects in close-up, photographed by John Hunter