{"id":10122,"date":"2015-03-13T08:22:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:13","slug":"state-of-the-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10122","title":{"rendered":"State of the Plate food conference explores local-global connections, March 27-28"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"State<\/a>The two-day interdisciplinary conference, \u201cState of the Plate: Food and the Local-Global Nexus,\u201d will explore the historic, aesthetic and political connections between our local and global food systems and movements, Friday, March 27, through Saturday, March 28, 2015. The free conference will be held in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

The Chandler Keynote Lecture, \u201cThe Transformative Power of Food and Region: One Ingredient at a Time,\u201d will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Vivian Howard, chef and owner of The Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, North Carolina, and star of the Peabody-winning PBS television show A Chef\u2019s Life<\/em>, will deliver the lecture. Her husband and co-owner, Ben Knight; Durham filmmaker and A Chef\u2019s Life<\/em> producer and director, Cynthia Hill; and A Chef\u2019s Life co-producer Malinda Maynor Lowery will join Howard. Lowery is also associate professor of history and director of the Southern Oral History Program at UNC.<\/p>\n

The lecture will be followed by a desert reception in the FedEx Global Education Center James and Florence Peacock Atrium.<\/p>\n

Additional sessions will feature research, initiatives and insights from students, faculty, independent scholars, entrepreneurs, local organizations and community members. Each session has a theme that corresponds to \u201cbasic tastes,\u201d such as hot, salty, smoky, sour, bitter, savory and sharp, and will be followed by refreshments that correspond with each session\u2019s theme.<\/p>\n

A special food issue of the Center for the Study of the American South\u2019s award-winning journal, Southern Cultures,<\/em> will also be released at a launch party at 6 p.m. at the gourmet emporium, Southern Season, following sessions on the first day of the conference. Tickets for the launch party may be purchased online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The State of the Plate conference is part of the Global American South project and is presented by the Center for Global Initiatives, Center for the Study of the American South, department of American studies and Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional support is provided by American Food Roots and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at UNC-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

For more information, a schedule of conference events\u00a0and to register, please visit the event page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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