Food Studies RFG

16 Jun

Food Studies Research Focus Group

Conveners Ali Hendley, Sociology, ahendley@umail.ucsb.edu Lisa Jacobson, History, jacobson@history.ucsb.edu Erika Rappaport, History, rappaport@history.ucsb.edu The Food Studies Research Focus Group brings together faculty and graduate students to discuss ongoing research on a variety of food-related topics. These include: the cultural, social and political meanings of food in diverse settings and...

13:26 / Research Focus Groups

04 May

Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda

Carolyn de la Peña (Department of American Studies, UC Davis) Wednesday, May 4 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carolyn de la Peña will discuss her new book, Empty Pleasures. Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the...

11:37 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

07 Feb

“You’re Not Just Buying Coffee”: Ethical Consumerism in the Shadow of Global Capital

Nicki Lisa Cole (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 7 / 10:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today’s consumer is confronted with a growing variety of “ethical” products in the American marketplace. This presentation examines the practice of ethical consumption of coffee in order to identify the ideological and...

14:19 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

21 Jan

The Not-so-Separate Spheres: Private Chefs Negotiate Professionalism and Intimate Service

Ali Hendley (Sociology, UCSB) Friday, January 21 / 11:00 AM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB While the private and public spheres are often imagined as separate and opposed, feminist scholars have argued that they are inextricably linked. Challenging the line between public and private, work and home, and...

10:06 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

18 Nov

The Temperance Tea Party: Free Trade, Sacred Tastes and the Sober Consumer in the Early Industrial Britain

Erika Rappaport (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As critics have pointed out, the contemporary conservative “tea party movement” holds little resemblance to that of its self-proclaimed forefathers. This paper elucidates this point but also argues that tea parties have been...

14:22 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

04 Nov

Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root

Robert Gottlieb (Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College) Thursday, November 4 / 11:30 AM HSSB 1233 In today’s food system, farm workers face hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises, and food products are developed to be convenient rather than wholesome. Opposing...

13:41 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

02 Oct

Sol Food Festival

Saturday, October 2 / 1:00 PM Plaza de Vera Cruz across the street from the Saturday Farmers Market Please join the IHC’s Food Studies Research Focus Group for a field trip to the Sol Food Festival, a one-day community-created festival to raise awareness of the Sustainable,...

09:34 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events

04 Jun

Soul Food Today and Yesterday: Discussion of Readings from Hog & Hominy and Sistah Vegan

Friday, June 4 / 10:30 AM IHC Seminar Room Join the Food Studies RFG for an engaging discussion of selections from two books: Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society, edited by A. Breeze Harper and Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from...

12:59 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

23 May

Food Security and Farm Labor in California: A Case Study of Santa Barbara County

Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Presentations: Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB) Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez,...

12:50 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

28 Apr

Field Trip to Shepherd’s Farm

Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM Shepherd's Farm, Santa Barbara Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd's Farm here in Santa Barbara.  Transportation will be provided.  Location of departure to be announced.  Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details. Sponsored by Community...

09:13 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

02 Mar

Was it the Boston Tea Party?: Why Americans Drink Coffee

Steven Topik (History, UC Irvine) Tuesday, March 2 / 12:00 PM 4020 HSSB Professor Steven Topik concentrates on world history, with an emphasis on Latin American and especially Brazilian history. His latest works focus on commodities as a means of studying world history and include The Second Conquest...

12:00 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

22 Feb

Food at UCSB

Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB) David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such...

13:00 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

08 Feb

Food Studies RFG Paper Workshop

Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB) Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM SSMS 3122 Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in...

14:00 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups