[getsmart-l] Food For Talk October 19 Speakers

[foodfortalk at utoronto.ca]

Food For Talk presents:

Immigrant Women and Food

October 19, 2-4 pm
Ryerson University, Heaslip House, 7th floor
297 Victoria Street

Panellists will discuss results from their recent research with  
immigrant women in the GTA.

Pannel:
      Dr. Iara Lessa.Ryerson University, Centre for Studies in Food Security
      Willa Liu, PhD candidate, OISE
      Anne Wu, PhD candidate, U of T

Anne's study has followed migrant mothers? steps on everyday cooking  
and its related practices to reveal alternative and sophisticated ways  
to understand the concept of homeland as well as the experience of  
city life in the new environment.  It illustrates how the ecological  
landscape and one?s memory of home are ingrained into the process of  
doing cooking and taste of food itself.

Willa's research examines Chinese immigrants, mostly women, and their  
unpaid household work and informal learning involved in it. She  
interviewed new Chinese immigrant women in the GTA. In the seminar she  
will discuss  food-related informal learning through various  
dimensions of household work.

Iara and Cecilia have interviewed immigrant women from various origins  
about their household's changes in food practices since they settled  
in Toronto.  They will present their findings about how these women  
see these changes affecting their identities, roles and family life in  
the re-constituted home.

Please note that the website address for the Centre For Studies in  
Food Security has changed. The correct address is  
www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity

FILM SCREENING - IN DEFENSE OF OUR TREATIES
Part of the Planet in Focus Film International Environmental Film and  
Video Festival
http://www.planetinfocus.org/festival/oct25
Thursday, October 25th at 5h30
Innis College Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue

In Defense of our Treaties, follows the struggle of Bear River First  
Nation as they stand up to pressure from the Department of Fisheries  
(DFO) to sell their treaty rights for a ticket into the commercial  
fisheries. For the Mi?kmaq, fishing is a right that comes from the  
Creator, and is protected by the Treaties. In 1999, the Supreme Court  
recognized those rights, and DFO has since signed agreements with 32  
of the 34 First Nations in the region. The deals offer money to buy  
into the commercial fisheries, as long as the Mi?kmaq fish under DFO?s  
jurisdiction. That's not good enough for Bear River , one of two  
communities refusing to sign. The community is working with non-native  
fishers, to get on the water ? on their own terms.

for more info about In Defense of our Treaties and Bear River First  
Nation visit: http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info?did=2441
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Martha Stiegman
Candidate - PhD Special Individualized Program
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec
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'Food for Talk' provides a place for conversations to take place  
between people who work with communities, government and universities  
to explore the emerging and challenging issues around food security,  
agricultural transformation, and local food alternatives/networks.  
This series is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Urban Health
Initiatives at the University of Toronto, York University Faculty of  
Environmental Studies, the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food  
Security, and the Toronto Food Policy Council.

For more information about the seminar series, contact Kim  
Crichton-Struthers at foodfortalk at utoronto.ca or telephone the Centre  
for Urban Health Initiatives at 416-978-7223.

Previous Food For Talk seminars are presently available in digital  
audio format at the website of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food  
Security, www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity and the Centre For UrbanHealth  
Initiatives website, http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/