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Nov07

Connecting Local Food Systems with Community Well-Being and Development

5:00 PM

Nov29

Coffee: The Religion of Things

5:00 PM

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Welcome to 2018 Fall Semester!

IUFI Seminar Schedule

(Thursdays at 5pm, 405 N. Park unless noted otherwise)

I (Th, Aug. 23) – IUFI Open House

II (Th, Aug. 30) - Natsuko Tsujimura, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (IUB)

“Genderization and Language in Japanese Foodways”

IV (TH, Sep. 13) – Angela Babb, Post-Doctoral Fellow Ostrom Workshop (IUB), "Imagining Neoliberal Consumer Subjects in the Political Economy of Hunger"

VI (Th, Sep. 27) – Suriati Abas, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Literacy, Culture and Language Education, "Cosmopolitanism in Ethnic Foodscapes: A Geosemiotic, Social Literacies View of Restaurants in Bloomington, Indiana"

VIII (Th, Oct. 11) – Laura Reiley, Tampa Bay Times food critic, “Are we doomed to be duped? The rise of food fraud in an increasingly opaque system." Note Location: Radio and TV Building, Room 251

IX (Th, Oct. 18) – Andrew Flachs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University, "Anthropological Perspectives on Fermented Food and the Microbiome"

XII (WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7) – Rhonda Phillips, Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Agricultural Economics (Purdue), "Connecting Local Food Systems with Community Well-Being and Development" Note Location: Tocqueville Room, Ostrom Workshop (513 N. Park Ave)

XIV (Th, Nov. 29) - Jamel Velji, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College, “Coffee: The Religion of Things”

Note Location: Inkwell (105 N. College Ave)

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Exciting News!

IU awards research grant for food systems sustainability

In the face of environmental change and persistent public health issues, how do we develop more resilient sustainable food systems? This question, and more, is at the heart of the two research initiatives selected to receive 2018 Emerging Areas of Research awards from Indiana University Bloomington. The goal of the sustainable food systems Emerging Areas of Research initiative is to analyze food systems from varying perspectives and in both local and international contexts to identify what it takes to create environmentally sustainable, socially just and resilient systems for food, from production to procurement. The research team will receive up to $2.5 million for the four-year initiative.

The "Sustainable Food Systems Science" initiative is led by James Farmer, a faculty member in the School of Public Health-Bloomington, along with co-leaders Eduardo Brondizio, Analena Bruce, Daniel Knudsen, Jennifer Robinson and Peter Todd. The entire collborative team is made up of Angela Babb, Stephanie Dickinson, Brad Fulton, Stacey Giroux, Carl Ipsen, Sarah Osterhoudt, Julia Valliant, and Kurt Waldman.

The project will be centrally located at the IU Food Institute.

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