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Claire Gilbert Marty Visiting Writer Series: Rebecca Makkai

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels I Have Some Questions for You, The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Great Believers received an American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction […]

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Asian American Foodways: Culture, Identity, and Rhetoric

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

Chef Ann Kim & Dr. Jennifer Lin LeMesurier on the culture, identity, and rhetoric of Asian American foodways.

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Animal Source Foods: Global Perspectives on the Ideal Diet

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

A look at global perspectives on the role of animal source foods in the ideal diet.

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Still “Biting the Hands that Feed Us”

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

The Institute for Freedom & Community is hosting "Still biting the hand that feeds us" Talk. Baylen Linnekin is an attorney, author, and scholar. He serves on the board of the nonprofit Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and also served as a founding board member of the Academy of Food Law & Policy. Linnekin’s first book, […]

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What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

A look at the race to secure the global food supply and how we’ll feed humanity sustainably in the coming decades

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Farmed Out: The Role of Lobbying in Agricultural Policymaking

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

"Farmed Out: The Role of Lobbying in Agricultural Policymaking" with Dr. Clare Brock is the final event in the IFC's Fall 2023 Series, Food Policy and Food Politics. Professor Clare Brock will discuss her own research, which details how the lobbying process influences the food we eat. Clare Brock is an Assistant Professor of Political […]

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Stressed Out and Too Busy: Negotiating the Lived Experience of Weight Across Four Cultures

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

Professor SturtzSreetharan is co-author of Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight. Her talk will draw on this book, her research surrounding the lived experiences of fatness, and challenging assumptions about body image. The talk is hosted in Viking theater and all are welcome to attend. 

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Sweetness and Carceral Power: The Place of Sugar in Texas Prison History

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

Dr. Ashanté Reese will present her ethnographic research on food justice, with a special focus on her ongoing research on Sugar Land, Texas, “in which she explores the spatial, economic, and carceral implications of sugar and the sometimes contradictory and deadly sweetness that marks Black life.” This event is open to the public. 

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Food Access, Social Policy, and Inequality

Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, 1520 St Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057, USA 101 St Olaf Ave, United States

The Institute for Freedom & Community is excited to present the second speaker event of the Fall 2023 Series: Food Policy and Food Politics. In "Food Access, Social Policy, and Inequality," Professor Katherine Gutierrez and Professor Usamah Wasif will present their research and engage in a frank conversation about social policy surrounding food access (including […]

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