Food in Early Modern Latin America

Friday, 20 June, 3-5.00pm at the Sorby Room in the Wager Building (in-person) and via Teams

Please mark your calendars for an exciting panel discussion of food in Latin America that will range from the Straits of Magellan to Spanish colonial La Florida. This event will bring international historians and archaeologists to campus for a conversation with UoR scholars to discuss how can we learn lessons from the Latin American past to best prepare for the future. The visiting scholars will pre-circulate papers that explore themes of Indigenous resilience, especially in relation to climate and environmental change, rural-urban relationships, and empowerment in food systems. Participants will explore the deep past and colonial legacies of ecosystems of food production and harvesting, land management practices, nutrition and dietary preferences, conceptions of food and the body, and food and political resistance.

This event is supported by funding from the British Academy (Global Professorship of Katie Sampeck (Archaeology) with additional support for the event from R-LAC.  To register for the event please click on the website link below or this link.