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This month's IUFI Speaker Series presents

A Conversation with Lauren McCalister and Keitlyn Alcantara

 
October marks the beginning of the IUFI 2020-21 Speaker Series, which we propose to dedicate to the topic of food and race. Seen locally, nationally and globally the intersection of race and food highlights important issues of racial inequity in areas that include land access, farming, food processing, and access to adequate and healthy foods. Renewed awareness regarding indigenous foodways around the world is also pointing the way to a more sustainable future. In the present context of rising nationalisms and a pandemic that impacts already disadvantaged racial groups more than others, these issues take on special urgency.

Friday, October 30
9:00amRegister here
Lauren McCalister
Lauren McCalister is owner of Three Flock Farm, shepherding 40 Jacob sheep located in Ellettsville, Indiana. Three Flock Farm hosts The Plant Truck project and proudly sells at The People’s Market. Lauren remains inspired by the work at Soul Fire Farm and her ancestors. The Plant Truck is a BIPOC-led initiative making plants, seeds, medicine and healthy food accessible for those historically denied land and food sovereignty due to discrimination based on race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity and citizenship status. Lauren is a SARE National grant recipient for research about mushroom cultivation from spent coffee ground and spent brewers grain. 
 
Earth Eats link: https://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/have-sheep,-will-farm---part-i.php
https://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/have-sheep,-will-farm--part-ii.php
https://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/have-sheep,-will-farm--part-iii.php

 
Keitlyn Alcantara

Keitlyn Alcantara is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Anthropology department at IU-Bloomington. Raised between US and Mexican worlds, her academic and personal growth has been strongly shaped by both. As an anthropological bioarchaeologist, she studies how foodways shape bodies and society, and can serve as a site of community resistance. Her most recent project is centered in the city of Tlaxcala, Mexico. You can learn more about her current work at www.keitlynalcantara.com. In 2017, Keitlyn began the public scholarship program Sazón Nashville (www.sazonnashville.com) a series of cooking workshops with middle school-aged Latinx immigrant communities in Nashville, fostering discussions about food as a site of memory, tradition, and identity. She hopes to continue a version of this project in her new home in Bloomington, IN. Through these two projects, her work emphasizes foodways as a diachronic link between ancient histories and modern politics
 
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