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 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)…
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 By Sanelisiwe Nyaba and Haidee Swanby August 2021 In 2020, when the Covid 19 pandemic struck, the South African government implemented some of the…
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 South African Universities By Mary Hames and Desiree Lewis. Media reports, research, and student support services are paying an increasing amount of attention to…
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:…
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…
Corporate fast-food advertising targeting children in South Africa by Desiree Lewis, Sheetal Bhoola and Lynn Mafofo (This chapter will be published in the Child Gauge, (UCT) in 2020) The health…
Critical Food Studies: Transdisciplinary Humanities Approaches: Intra Institutional Programme Call for Applications for 2021: Student Fellowships: Honours, Masters and PhD and Position of Postdoctoral Researcher HONOURS, MASTERS & PHD The…
Students University Food Cultures: Call for Submissions Artwork, Photographs, Personal Essays, Reflective Essays, Opinion Pieces, Articles South African universities are slowly beginning to address the problem of students’ access…
Africa Image 1 of 4 The above artworks are reflections on my honours research on maize consumption. Maize and maize meal hold a deeply sentimental place in the hearts and…
Call for submissions: “Maize Talk” Do you have a story, memory or opinion to share about the meaning of maize? Debates about maize have informed controversies around GMOs, nutrition as…
CFS Panel Discussion Hosted by the Critical Food Studies Programme, UWC, UKZN and UP Date: 19 October 2020 Time: 12:00-2:00 P.M Virtual Link: https://uwc.zoom.us/j/93687064220 Download and share our poster: CFS…
COVID -19 induced food security challenges in the urban periphery. A case of Mazowe District, Zimbabwe by Oshneck Mupepi This paper considers the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on food and…
Invisible Urban Farmers and a Next Season of Hunger– Participatory Co-research during Lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa Nomonde Buthelezi, Razack Karriem, Stefanie Lemke, Nicole Paganini,Silke Stöber, Haidee Swanby This…
Food through the lens of Covid 19 Fernanda Pesce Biazquez, AFP. South Africa food queues. Dr. Sheetal Bhoola reflects on the ways that the pandemic has revealed inequity in…
Zifunyanwa ngabatheni? Parcelling out food during the South African lockdown 19 May 2020 Sivuyisiwe Veronica Wonci critically reflects on her experience with food parcels during COVID19 in Plettenberg Bay and…
Panel discussion: Epidemic shocks and food cultures in the new millennium Join our panelists, Psyche Williams-Forson, Mariam Mayet and Carla Tsampiras 29 May 2020, 15.00-18.00 (GMT+2) Zoom Meeting: https://uwc.zoom.us/j/96515423982 Meeting…
Healthy diets in the Covid19 lockdown: much more than a matter of choice? by Bannosi Mayimela & Mbali Shabalala. 23 April 2020 A movement of purchasing vendors’ stock just before…
