2013 | Food and Immigrant Life, Session 5: Writers | The New School
The Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies Program at The New School are pleased to present the 29th Social Research conference, Food and Immigrant Life: The Role of Food in Forced Migration, Migrant Labor, and Re-creating Home. The conference will examine the complex relationships between food and migration. Food scarcity is not only at the root of much human displacement and migration—the food industry also offers immigrants an entry point into the U.S. economic system while simultaneously confining migrants to low wages and poor, if not unsafe, work conditions. At the same time, food allows immigrants to maintain their cultural identity. The conference places issues of immigration and food service work in the context of a broader social justice agenda and explores the cultural role food plays in expressing cultural heritage.
Center for Public Scholarship |
SESSION 5: WRITERS ON FOOD AND MIGRATION
A panel of notable writers read fiction and nonfiction in which food is used to explore community building, alienation, and assimilation among immigrants to the United States and other countries. The panel is presented by the School of Writing at The New School for Public Engagement.
School of Writing |
Panelists:
- Von Diaz, multimedia journalist, oral historian, and journalist for Feet in 2 Worlds
- Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody's Daughter (Beacon Press, 2006)
- Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) and The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
- Tiphanie Yanique, assistant professor, School of Writing; author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf Press, 2010)
Moderator: Luis Jaramillo, associate chair, Writing Program, The New School; co-editor of the journal The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food
The Food Studies program at The New School draws on a range of disciplines to explore the connections between food and the environment, politics, history, and culture. Food Studies |
The conference is made possible through a collaboration between The New School's Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies program as well as the Writing Program, India China Institute, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Center for New York City Affairs, Global Studies program, Gender Studies program, and International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC).
THE NEW SCHOOL |
Location: Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
04/19/2013 6:00-7:30 p.m.