Food Studies Program at the New School

Eating NAFTA: Food Justice, Policy, and the Cuisine of Mexico Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:00 PM 9:00 PM Online... Join previous Food Studies faculty, Dr. Alyshia Galvez, for a conversation that explains the connections between NAFTA and the decline in traditional Mexican cuisines; the industrialized and processed foods that flooded in to replace them; and the resulting effects on the health of the Mexican population at large. Alyshia will be joined by Irwin Sanchez, founder of Tlaxcal Kitchen; Dr. Miriam Bertran, coordinator of the food and culture program at Metropolitan University in Xochimilco, Mexico; Teresa Mares, author of Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont; and Paloma Martinez-Cruz, associate professor of Latinx Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University, and author of Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace. This conversation will focus not only on how policy has affected the foodways of Mexico, but also how the pandemic has engendered new conversations about who is an essential worker and how Covid-19 has impacted food supply and food access south of the border. https://www.mofad.org/events/2020/917/eatingnafta

Book Launch! Join us on March 11th for a presentation and discussion with Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor of Food Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Minkoff-Zern will discuss her new book The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (2019, MIT Press). Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Time: 6-8 pm Location: Lang Cafe, Eugene Lang College... 65 West 11th Street New York, NY 10011 https://www.facebook.com/events/497718377793651/

Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net with Maggie Dickinson Date: Friday December 13 @ 6:30pm Place: The People's Forum. 320 West 37th Street. ... The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Although it's commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the 21st century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, which essentially subsidizes low-wage jobs. Excluded populations - such as the unemployed, informally employed workers, and undocumented immigrants - must rely on charity to survive. Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States https://www.facebook.com/events/547250359155769/ Find info on The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Email Inquiries to: [email protected]

Food Studies was present at The Food Bank of New York City's legislative breakfast this morning, where the food bank presented key findings from their recent report and awards to those contributing to improved food policy. You can find the November 2019 report here: https://foodbanknyc.org/hunger-report-vulnerable-new-yorke/