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Call for journal abstracts: Re-reading “Africa” Through Food

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Attend our virtual seminar: New Generation Scholars Researching Food on 31 August 2021

Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care

Attend our virtual seminar: Centering African feminism in food cultures and politics on 27 July 2021

“We Eat Sushi Now”: Targeting Hungry Students at 2 South African Universities

Attend our virtual seminar: In search of the perfect curry in two contemporary cookbooks on 29 June 2021

Attend our virtual Seminar: Corporate fast food advertising targeting children on 25 May 2021

Corporate fast-food advertising targeting children in South Africa

Critical Food Studies Mellon Fellowship Call

COMPETITION! What do students eat?

Maize by Gina Hendrickse

Call for submissions: “Maize Talk”

Panel discussion: What do students eat? Causes, Complicities and Contexts

COVID -19 induced food security challenges in the urban periphery. A case of Mazowe District, Zimbabwe

Invisible Urban Farmers and a Next Season of Hunger

Food through the lens of Covid 19

Zifunyanwa ngabatheni? Parcelling out food during the South African lockdown

Panel discussion: Epidemic shocks and food cultures in the new millennium

Healthy diets in the Covid19 lockdown: much more than a matter of choice?

Constructing the Halal Kitchen in the American Diaspora

The Wisdom of Suspended Time: Artichokes and Fava Beans

Gems from our archives - Yvette Abrahams 2016

Zonke Khanyi Mjekula

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CFS Seminar: Hunger and University Students in South Africa

Reflecting on socio-ecological transformation research: critical questions to consider

Food in the Time of Race: Ruminations on Cultural Sustainability and Black Food Energy

From our archives - Food is an African Feminist Issue by Elaine Salo

Position of Postdoctoral Researcher

Urban foodscapes in Woodstock, Cape Town and ‘Glocalised’ supermarkets

Towards decolonial transdisciplinary research: The humanities in food studies

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Enraged: Women and Nature

My Daily Bread

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Food as healing: building resilience

revolutionaries at the table

Student fellowships: call for applications

Food Sovereignty as Freedom

Mambhele's Harvest

Food, Pleasure and Poison in Cape Town: A Response to World Food Day

The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon by Coral Bijoux

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Finding a way forward for the South African food system

The United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the instructive lessons that can be drawn from FAO’s 1960s Freedom from Hunger Campaign

Cultures and Cuisines: A Peek at Our Early History

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Reflections on the Food Politics and Cultures Festival: 10-12 November 2017

“Mens moet altyd dit in die huis hê”

Food - Where private and public intersect by Angelo Fick

Food as memory and life by Dee Marco

The 2017 Food Politics and Cultures Festival in Pictures

Politicizing public eating spaces

Regulating Food Waste in the City

Seeking Mielie in Milpa by Zayaan Khan

The Fish System: A Poem by Jolyn Phillips

Food Studies and the Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity by Desiree Lewis

“Eating the Other”: the “Red Indian” Motif and Eating

AVAILABLE NOW: Food Politics and Cultures Festival Draft Programme

Food and “Excess” in Rome by Desiree Lewis

7th International Conference on Food Studies in Rome

Gnanum: A Short Story by Pralini Naidoo

The 'Futures of Food,' a communiqué by Lynn Mafofo

A Poem by Gabeba Badaroon: My Tongue Softens on The Other Name

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Food as a Personal and Political Encounter by Angelo Fick

The Futures of Food: Thinking Through Health Food

"Decolonising Food Systems and Sowing Seeds of Resistance."

Regulating slavery is not good enough

Corporate Control Over Seeds

The wells of not-so-ancient wisdom by Pralini Naidoo

Thinking about Food and Racism in “Post-Apartheid” South Africa

Some Everyday Rituals Around Food and Eating

Bodies, Matter and Feminist Freedoms

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Call for journal abstracts: Re-reading “Africa” Through Food

24 Mar at 9:25 am

Events and calls

Journal of African Cultural Studies Special Issue Title: Re-reading “Africa” Through Food Guest Edited by Desiree Lewis Background/Rationale of the Issue African social and cultural processes and struggles have been…

Virtual Humanities Conference

31 Aug 2021

Events and calls

Virtual Humanities Conference 17–19 November 2021 Submission closing date: 15 September 2021 Hosted by Critical Food Studies together with the University of the Western Cape (UWC), University of Pretoria (UP)…

Attend our virtual seminar: New Generation Scholars Researching Food on 31 August 2021

24 Aug 2021

Events and calls

Virtual Seminar 4 Panelists: Ms Rachel Botes, Dr Evans Ondigi, Dr Sheetal Bhoola New Generation Scholars Researching Food 31 August 2021, 14:00 – 16:00 (Pretoria) This session airs new research driven by…

Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care

9 Aug 2021

Articles, essays and opinion pieces

Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care By Sanelisiwe Nyaba and Haidee Swanby August 2021 In 2020, when the Covid 19 pandemic struck, the South African government implemented some of the…

Attend our virtual seminar: Centering African feminism in food cultures and politics on 27 July 2021

9 Jul 2021

Events and calls

Virtual seminar 3 Panelists: Pat McFadden, Yvette Abrahams, Ruth Nyambura and Mercia Andrews Centering African feminism in food cultures and politics: 27 July 2021 2-4pm (Pretoria) Although African women are…

“We Eat Sushi Now”: Targeting Hungry Students at 2 South African Universities

12 Jun 2021

Articles

“We Eat Sushi Now”: Targeting Hungry Students at South African Universities By Mary Hames and Desiree Lewis. Media reports, research, and student support services are paying an increasing amount of attention to…

Attend our virtual seminar: In search of the perfect curry in two contemporary cookbooks on 29 June 2021

8 Jun 2021

Events and calls

Virtual Seminar 2: In search of the perfect curry in two contemporary cookbooks Date and time: June 29, 2021 13:30PM – 15:30PM Johannesburg Meeting ID: 912 1835 5844 Zoom link:…

Attend our virtual Seminar: Corporate fast food advertising targeting children on 25 May 2021

10 May 2021

Events and calls

This seminar is based on interdisciplinary research in cultural studies, anthropology and linguistics and is presented by CFS scholars at UWC and UKZN. It raises the way that a transnational…

YOUTUBE – Virtual Seminar: Embracing Contemporarity: Theorising and Living Our Feminist Futures’ by Patricia McFadden

Women’s and Gender Studies Department and South African Association of Gender Studies presents a discussion on the context of the so-called “decolonial turn” and the frequently mechanical embrace of “political correctness”, what are the legacies and possibilities for radical feminist imagining. Themes explored include:

Herstories, Legacies and Political shifts in feminism
Crafting new language and feminist imaginaries to respond to contemporary challenges
Resisting ecocide – living an ecofeminist vegan life

This virtual event took place on 29 September 2021, 5 – 7 PM (Johannesburg)

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YOUTUBE – Virtual Seminar: Embracing Contemporarity: Theorising and Living Our Feminist Futures’ by Patricia McFadden

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