CNY Mellon Corridor working group on Health Humanities Fall 2023 Gathering: Food/Justice/Healing
Conference Schedule
9:15 hot coffee and casual greetings
9:45 Welcome
10am-11:30 Keynote
Hanna Garth (Princeton) Serving the Other: “Healthy Food” as a Racial Project
11:45-12:45pm Lunch
The Conversation in Our Region
12:45pm-2:00pm Panel I CNY on Food and Wellbeing
Anna Zoodsma (RISE) Economies of Wellbeing: Farming and the Social Determinants of Health Among Refugees in Central NY
Mariaelena Huambachano (Syracuse University) Seeding hope: Rematriating Indigenous Cultures of Well-being
Yamuna Sangarasivam (Nazareth University) Queer Culinary Transmigrations: Nourishing Resistance & Renewal
2:15-3:30pm Panel II CNY on Eating and Medicine
Blaize Gervais (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) “Identity, Meaning, and Medicalization: Health and Justice through a Korsgaardian Lens”
Hannah Ali (Cornell University) Drug Whispers
Conerly Casey (Rochester Institute of Technology) Cooking Medicines: Spirit-Recommended Sahelian Plants for Stews
3:35-4:30pm Connections and Continuation
Join one of two conversations: 1. for regional scholars and working group members to identify ongoing points of solidary and collective work for our working group; or 2. in informal conversation between Keynote speaker, Hanna Garth, and graduate students.
Co-sponsored at Cornell University by the Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Global Development, and Society for the Humanities and by the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences.
