Food & Memory: Friday, March 7th

Organized by Rethinking Place, a Mellon Foundation “Humanities for all times” initiative, in partnership with Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies.

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Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future.

Thank you to our partners at the Bard Farm, Montgomery Place Orchards, the Center for Experimental Humanities, Forge Project, BEM Brooklyn, the Fisher Center Anti-Racism Working Group on Food, the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, Sweet Freedom Farm, and the Stevenson Library!

The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located.

The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights and the Arts, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Each day of the conference has separate registration. Please note that general registration provides access to all events on Friday. Lunch is limited capacity, denoted by "add-on" tickets upon checkout.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bard College, 30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, United States