*Please note that attendees are free to attend any of the talks they like and are not required to stay for the entire event.*
Conference Schedule
September 24, 2026, Robert Sutherland Hall Room 448
9.15- 9.30 Opening Remarks
9.30 to 10.30 Jeffrey Pilcher, "Healthy Foods in the Classroom and Around the World"
10.45 to 11.15 Sammi King (and Gavin Weedon), "Maxxed Out: A Short History of Protein Mania"
11.15 to 11.45 Rebecca Manley, "Famine Bread: Surrogates and Survival in the Soviet Union"
LUNCH 12.00 to 1.00
1.15 to 1.45 Geetha Sukumaran, "Heritage Seeds and Sustainable Foodscapes: Partnering toward the Goals"
1.45 to 2.15 Ishita Rikhi, "Starved for Control: How Food Became My Outlet for Perfectionism"
2.15 to 2.45 Aditi Sen, "Dysmorphia, Mallomar Cookies, and the Bully: A Study of Three Diet Cookbooks and the Language of Thinness"
2.45 to 3.15 Allison Morehead, "Kohlrabi Apostles and Cabbage Worlds: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Occult in Edvard Munch's Vegetarianism"
September 25, 2026, Robert Sutherland Hall 554
9.30 to 10.15 Nathalie Cooke, "Handwriting is Hard to Read! But There are Rewards to Slow Reading (and Slow Food)"
10.15 to 10.45 Brenden Edwards and Nicole Kappahan, "A Recipe for History: Cookbooks and Recipe Cards in W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections"
10.45 to 11.15 Sheldon Traviss, "From Archive to Hearth: Reconstructing Haudenosaunee Foodways Through Research and Practice"
11.15 to 11.45 Scott Berthelette, "The Politics of Pemmican: Food Sovereignty and the Making of the Métis Nation"
LUNCH 12.00- 1.00
1.15 to 1.45 Dan Irwin, "A Table for Everyone: Forty Years of Food Banking in Kingston"
1.45 to 2.15 is Meghan Torchia, "‘Not Drunk, Not Insolent': The Politics of Vegetarian Food in Soviet Public Dining"
