Planetary Lunch: An Encounter with Multispecies Lunch Lifeforms

Music Room: 12:15-1:15pm

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Planetary Lunch: An Encounter with Multispecies Lunch Lifeforms

Please join us for an experiential workshop during which we will explore the relationships between health, food, ecosystems, time, place, science, and history! Bring your lunch up to the music room where we will puzzle together about the species we are consuming, all those whose hands have come into contact with them, the ecosystems processes involved, and the timescales of growing, producing, processing, distributing, and consuming lunch. Consider this a genre of critical social scientific life cycle assessment of lunch drawing on posthumanisms, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies. We recognize that these ways of thinking might be new to some, so we will also share some of our own work to give you a sense of how ideas and questions generated in exercises and discussions like this one can translate into research, education, practice, policy, and action.

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Facilitators

Bio: Dr. Colin Sue-Chue-Lam is a resident physician in general surgery and member of the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health, and Sustainable Care at the University of Toronto. He is interested in sustainable healthcare and the study of how surgery changes over time.

Bio: Antonia Di Castri is a registered nurse, epidemiologist, and PhD student in the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Her research program is broadly focused on infectious disease diagnosis and prevention with a range of projects on issues of access, consent, equity, trust, healthcare professional culture, (mis/dis)information, vaccine policy, and more-than-human engagement in research. Antonia’s doctoral dissertation is situated at the confluence of infectious disease and climate change and looks at public health measures of preventing tick-borne diseases using critical more-than-human theories of health rooted in epistemic, social, and ecological justice.

Bio: Dr. Sarah Elton researches the ways the food system impacts human health and ecosystems and their implications for food justice drawing on critical qualitative health research methodologies. She works across the food system, studying: produce supply chains in the context of climate change and food access; socio-ecological food systems of urban gardens; and the human gut microbiome from a social science perspective. She is the inaugural Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

Bio: Dr. Kristian Brevik works to build relationships between humans and other species through science, teaching, zine publishing, and large-scale installation and performance art.

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