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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
By: Allison Norris Imagine standing in front of a machine waiting to be fed by it. Three lanky metal arms converge to a centre-point which offers a spoon, half full of an unknown paste. The spoon hovers in front of your lips. How do you negotiate this offering? What does it mean to accept?... More
Monday, March 7, 2022
By: Fleur Esteron, Myriam Durocher & Kathy Dobson Alissa Overend began her presentation at the Food Matters and Materialities Conference with a quote from well-known food writer Michael Pollan: "We are more confused about how to eat than any people in history." By that, Overend highlights how we—in Western food cultures—are overwhelmed and... More
Friday, March 4, 2022
By: Lalla Maiga Did you notice any changes to your cooking and eating habits during a lockdown? To explore this question, Arlette Martinez, a Ph.D. student at Carleton University, cultural anthropologist, and former professional chef, conducted a research study among a group of adults engaging in online food activities to understand how our eating... More
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
This episode of the Food Matters podcast series features Taylor Wilson, graduate of the Master's in Development Practice Program at the University of Winnipeg. Taylor discusses how Indigenous knowledges can help us to look at the Canada Food Guide and our food consumption differently. What can we learn from food guides and practices informed... More
Monday, February 28, 2022
By: Grace Ingraham Urban gardening can take shape in many ways, from growing your own vegetables at home to growing them amongst others in a community setting. These are the types of garden spaces that Nora Faltmann, a Ph.D. student at the University of Vienna, focused on while researching food safety practices in Ho... More
Friday, February 11, 2022
By: Arlette Martinez “Food can give you a sense of home and belonging, and it can help you build spaces that can sustain you and provide you comfort, where you can imagine that you belong” — S. Chakrabarti. Sohni Chakrabarti is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of English and co-founder of an interdisciplinary food... More
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
By: Fleur Esteron Myriam Durocher is a postdoctoral researcher at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and at the University of Sydney in Australia. During the 2021 Food Matters and Materialities Conference, Myriam presented her research that challenges how we define, think, and speak of healthy food. I had the opportunity to interview Myriam... More
Friday, February 4, 2022
This podcast episode features an interview with Kendra Lee Sanders, a Ph. D student in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. In this episode, we talk about how we live in the Quantified Self Movement and how wearable technology can now be found on dairy cows. Podcast episode... More
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
By: Allison Norris Pamela Tudge had a number of roles at the Food Matters & Materialities conference. A Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University, Tudge curated a virtual gallery exhibition centered on alternative forms of knowledge creation in contemporary food cultures and hosted an online workshop that invited participants to physically... More
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
By: Jennifer Whitaker “Our interactions with our microbiome shape who we are and how we live”, Dr. Danielle Wilde told the audience during her Food Matters and Materialities Conference presentation. Wilde is an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark. At the Conference, she shared three related research projects that deal... More
Thursday, January 20, 2022
This podcast episode features an interview with Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley, Ph. D candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University. In this episode, we talk about Nicholas’s research on zoom dining and how he dealt with pandemic loneliness. Podcast episode host: Lalla Maiga Interviewee: Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley Podcast theme music: Laura Bruno... More
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
By: Jennifer Whitaker Dr. Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the Future Organisms project. At the 2021 Food Matters and Materialities Conference, she presented her doctoral research on the material practices of fermentation. 'Material practices' refer to specific actions repeated throughout a process like, in Hey's case, fermentation in... More
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