Food in Transition: Everyday Practices of Justice, Care, and Coexistence

Join us for conversations inviting us to rethink food as a powerful lens for understanding coexistence, repair, and futures in uncertain times.

What can food tell us about justice, care, and how people live together in times of change? This event brings together researchers and practitioners who use food as a way of understanding social, cultural, and environmental transitions. Across very different settings—from post-conflict societies and multicultural faith communities, to menopause health initiatives, sustainable living experiments, and digital design—food emerges as far more than something we eat.
The talks explore how everyday food practices shape wellbeing, belonging, and inequality. They look at issues such as food insecurity after conflict, shared religious meals as spaces of connection, growing and cooking medicinal herbs to support women’s health, low-impact food production as a response to ecological crisis, and how taste and smell might be communicated through digital media. Together, these perspectives highlight how food is deeply connected to identity, care, culture, and the senses.

Speakers:
Sheri Labenski - Food Security and Transitional Justice
Laura Cuch - Eating with Other: Food, faith and spaces of multicultural conviviality
Henrike Donner - Cultivating Menopause: an ethnographic approach to a social/green prescribing addressing reproductive health inequalities
Marta Wasenczuk - How many global hectares do you occupy? Pursuit of sustainable living and farming in the age of crisis
Yoram Chisik - Gastroludology: Gastronomy Meets Ludology

This event marks the launch of the Global Change Research Connections series - bringing Goldsmiths’ researchers together and opening spaces for conversations and collaborations on connected research interests.

Drinks and snacks available.

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