{"id":10468,"date":"2015-04-28T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10468"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:23","slug":"foodtheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10468","title":{"rendered":"UNC-Chapel Hill explores \u201cFood for All\u201d with 2015-2017 campus theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"healthy_lunch_034\"<\/a>The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will come together at a common table when it examines food and food studies as its 2015-2017 university-wide academic theme.\u00a0\u201cFood for All: Local and Global Perspectives,\u201d which builds on Carolina\u2019s 2012-2015 \u201cWater in Our World\u201d focus on global water issues,\u00a0will challenge all areas of the University to examine\u00a0wide-ranging topics from food cultures and\u00a0nutrition, to food security, world hunger, agricultural economics, resource management, sustainable development, climate change and international trade.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Carol L. Folt<\/a> will give a preview of the theme at a special session of The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s the Big Idea\u201d lecture series on April 30.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Food for All\u2019\u00a0is the perfect successor to the \u2018Water in Our World\u2019\u00a0theme,\u201d said Folt. \u201cWith alliances\u00a0like UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, the Global Research Institute\u00a0and the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, Carolina can leverage its world-class resources to guide our focus on food over the next two years. Through this initiative, we can bring our community together to address this global issue that plays a critical role across many facets of our society\u00a0\u2014\u00a0culture, health and the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"piebird<\/a>UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Global Research Institute proposed the food theme, which coincides with its own individual exploration of the topic, as the third in its continuing series established in 2009. With each new theme the institute recruits a group of expert fellows to campus, providing faculty, students and staff the opportunity to creatively engage with some of the world\u2019s leading scholars on the topic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe chose this theme, in part, because of the important role that food has played in our local community and region,\u201d said Peter Coclanis, director of the Global Research Institute.<\/p>\n

The institute has historically chosen global themes that resonate with the U.S. South.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood is very much at the heart of cultures worldwide,\u201d said Coclanis. \u201cThe agrarian history of the South makes us no exception. As a region, we also have important political, economic, cultural, health and social intersections with food.\u201d<\/p>\n

UNC-Chapel Hill is an international leader in food cultures and nutrition and the Chapel Hill community, the Research Triangle and other area universities have also long embraced food research and studies.<\/p>\n

The UNC Nutrition Research Institute, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, is one of the premiere institutes of its kind, studying ways to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent, treat and cure\u00a0diet and lifestyle-related diseases and disorders. The department of American studies\u2019 folklore program, The Center for the Study of the American South\u2019s \u201cSouthern Cultures\u201d journal, the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the School of Medicine and the Carolina Population Center are also world-renowned for their work on food studies, diet and nutrition.<\/p>\n

\"800px-Filled_tomatoes\"<\/a>The food theme\u2019s steering committee will be lead\u00a0by co-chairs Alice Ammerman and Marcie Cohen Ferris, both UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members with diverse experience and\u00a0deep-rooted interest\u00a0in food issues and food studies.<\/p>\n

Ammerman is a professor in the Department of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Her current research is focused on nutrition programs and policies associated with obesity and chronic disease prevention, sustainable agriculture as it relates to improved nutrition, and social entrepreneurship as a sustainable approach to addressing public health concerns.<\/p>\n

Ferris, a professor in the Department of American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and coordinator for the department\u2019s Southern Studies Program, has taught and conducted research on both food in American culture and the foodways and material culture of the American South. This work is reflected in her current book, \u201cThe Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region\u201d (UNC Press, 2014).\u00a0Ferris is a past president of the board of directors of the Southern Foodways Alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no more important topic in the world than food,\u201d said Ferris. \u201cIn food lies a range of dynamics like family, class struggle, ecological exploitation, connection to place, creativity and flavor that have long defined the American South. Through \u2018Food for All\u2019 we are able to extend our analysis\u00a0beyond the Carolina family to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal of the steering committee is to motivate conversation and research about food-focused scholarship and public engagement on a campus, state, national and global level. \u00a0It will also encourage and support\u00a0food-related activity, such as new courses, digital humanities projects, film and documentary work,\u00a0speaker series, scholar and artist-in-residence programs, performing arts events and services projects\u00a0across the campus, the Triangle community and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

The multidisciplinary committee includes faculty, staff, student, community and local university partners:<\/p>\n

Faculty:<\/p>\n

Maureen Berner<\/strong>, School of Government<\/p>\n

Peter Coclanis<\/strong>, Global Research Institute & Department of History<\/p>\n

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld<\/strong>, Department of Anthropology<\/p>\n

Amy Cooke<\/strong>, Curriculum for Environment and Ecology<\/p>\n

Molly De Marco<\/strong>, Department of Nutrition<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Engelhardt<\/strong>, Department of American Studies<\/p>\n

James Ferguson<\/strong>, Global Research Institute<\/p>\n

Sharon Holland<\/strong>, Department of American Studies<\/p>\n

Christian Lentz<\/strong>, Department of Geography<\/p>\n

Beth Mayer-Davis<\/strong>, Department of Nutrition<\/p>\n

Thomas Oatley<\/strong>, Department of Political Science<\/p>\n

Eliana Perrin<\/strong>,\u00a0Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention & School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Jay Swaminathan<\/strong>, Kenan-Flagler Business School<\/p>\n

Samantha Buckner Terhune<\/strong>, Global Research Institute & Honors Carolina<\/p>\n

Staff:<\/p>\n

Claire Lorch<\/strong>, North Carolina Botanical Garden<\/p>\n

Scott Myers<\/strong>, Carolina Dining Services<\/p>\n

Students:<\/p>\n

Rossi Anastopoulo<\/strong>, Undergraduate, Global Studies<\/p>\n

Will Chapman<\/strong>,\u00a0Graduate, Nutrition<\/p>\n

Christina Chauvenet<\/strong>,\u00a0Graduate, Maternal and Child Health<\/p>\n

Claire Hannapel<\/strong>, Undergraduate, Geological Sciences<\/p>\n

Beth Hopping<\/strong>,\u00a0Graduate, Nutrition<\/p>\n

Anna Youqi Tang<\/strong>, Undergraduate, Chemistry & Math<\/p>\n

Community:<\/p>\n

Sarah Blacklin<\/strong>, NC Choices<\/p>\n

Nancy Creamer,<\/strong> NCSU Center for Environmental Farming<\/p>\n

Betsy and Alex Hitt<\/strong>,\u00a0Peregrine Farm<\/p>\n

Ricky Moore<\/strong>, Saltbox Seafood Joint<\/p>\n

Andrea Reusing<\/strong>, Lantern Restaurant<\/p>\n

Karen Stanley<\/strong>,\u00a0NC Department of Health and Human Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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