The Food Institute Graduate Council (FIGC) at Berkeley is excited to invite students, scholars, community members, and artists to the fourth annual FIGC Food Systems Conference, titled “Diasporic Foods: An exploration of ongoing food relationships and connections.”
The objective of the conference is to connect scholars, community members, educators, artists, practitioners, and policy makers through narratives and discussions of the histories, existence, impacts, and futures of diasporic events and communities through
the lens of food.
Diaspora refers to the dispersion of a group of people from their homelands. Traditional food cultivation, preparation, and consumption can be strong sources of connection and grounding to both ancestral and current lands of diasporic peoples. The migrations
of ideas and practices due to diasporic events has impacted the food system across the globe.
