The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested the history and sociology of plants, food, agriculture and environment to explore how science and technology shape what we grow and eat. The regular programme of papers and discussions is curated in conjunction with the project From Collection to Cultivation, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
We meet fortnightly on Thursdays, 1–2pm, via Zoom. All welcome! If you're outside the Department and keen to join us, please email hps-cultivation@lists.cam.ac.uk
Organised by Helen Anne Curry and Jessica J. Lee.
This week, we'll discuss readings on Indigenous food sovereignty (in advance of HPS guest speaker Elizabeth Hoover).
- Elizabeth Hoover. '“You Can't Say You're Sovereign if You Can't Feed Yourself”: Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty in American Indian Community Gardening.' American Indian Culture and Research Journal 41, no. 3 (2017): 31–70. Link via Academia.edu here.
- Kyle Whyte. 'Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Renewal and U.S. Settler Colonialism.' The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Forthcoming.
Date:
Thursday, 11 February, 2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Event location:
Online
