Empowering Appetites: The Political Economy and Culture of Food

Jennifer Anderson, associate professor of history at Stony Brook University, and Anya Zilberstein, associate professor of history at Concordia University, present closing remarks for the "Empowering Appetites" conference.

Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, presents on how the recommendation of clean water in the dietetic community has evolved.

Kristen Block, associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, presents on the discovery of food for Europeans in colonial-era Caribbean.

Julie Kim, Associate Chair of Rose Hill Undergraduate Studies and associate professor of English, presents on gardens and food in the Caribbean during the colonial era.

Emma Hart, senior lecturer of history at the University of St. Andrews, presents about the importance of food marketplaces in British and colonial nations.

Carla Cevasco, assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, presents on the evolutions of the definitions of food in early North America.

Nicholas Crawford, research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, presents on the caretaking of enslaved people in response to abolitionists in the late 18th Century.

Jonathan Sachs, professor of English at Concordia University, presents on the evolution of cultivation and its effects on politics in the 18th century.

Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick, presents on the evolution of population visualization through the 18th century.

Michael Lacombe, associate professor of history, presents on status in early English travel narratives.

Jennifer Anderson, associate professor of history at Stony Brook University, and Anya Zilberstein, associate professor of history at Concordia University, present opening remarks for the "Empowering Appetites" conference.

Steve Hindle, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington, presents an opening welcome for "Empowering Appetites" conference.