INFOLETTRE/ NEWSLETTER
Greetings, CAFS Community— We are now collecting submissions for the next CAFS newsletter. The submission deadline is October 30, 2024 at NOON. All submissions MUST be sent as Word documents (.docx or .doc) to newsletter@foodstudies.ca. Please send tables, photos, and figures as separate, high-resolution files (.jpg, .png. or .pdf). This is a great opportunity to share your research, expand your networks, and get constructive feedback. Please consider submitting: —major research updates, works in progress, or project summaries (250–500 words) —abstracts of forthcoming journal articles, book announcements, events, job postings, other news (150–200 words) —photography, graphics, or audio/video work (links), with [...]
Invitation to Join the CAFS Strategic Planning Committee – Invitation à rejoindre le Comité de Planification Stratégique de l’ACEA
Dear CAFS Members and Colleagues, We are excited to invite you to join our Strategic Planning Committee as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) in 2025/26! This milestone provides a unique opportunity to reflect on our origins, evaluate our progress, and chart a course for the future. CAFS has grown significantly over the past two decades, evolving into a vibrant community that promotes interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach in food systems. We do this through Canadian Food Studies, our open-access journal published on a quarterly basis, our annual conference, and a series [...]
Conference Coordinating Committee/ le Comité de coordination de la conférence
Dear CAFS friends and Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we anticipate that CAFS will hold our annual conference in conjunction with Congress in 2025. Congress will be held at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, from May 30 to June 6, 2025. With the call to boycott Congress in Montreal this year, we see this moment as an opportunity to rethink, reimagine and reconstruct how we engage our food studies community in and through academic conference spaces. We are looking for volunteers to join the Conference Coordination Committee to collaboratively re-vision what a future CAFS gathering looks like. This call [...]
Solidarity Food Forum
Dear CAFS friends and colleagues, Given the urgency of the situation in Palestine, we are taking a decisive step to support the boycott of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) Congress, which is to be hosted at McGill University from June 12 to 21, 2024. This is a direct response to the impassioned calls for solidarity from student and faculty organizers in Montreal and beyond. We want to be clear that “business as usual” is not acceptable in this international humanitarian crisis. The CAFS Board and the Student Symposium organizers align with calls to action made [...]
2024 CAFS/ACÉA Annual General Meeting (AGM): Save the Date
We’re very pleased to invite you to the 2024 CAFS/ACÉA Annual General Meeting (AGM). This is an important occasion to participate in CAFS's administrative affairs and to make your voice heard. The AGM will be held virtually on June 27, 2024, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. (EDT). Click here to register. The AGM Agenda and relevant documents will be circulated to all registered attendees closer to the date.
Recruiting CAFS Board Members / Recrutement des membres du conseil d’administration de l’ACÉA – 2024–26
Join us as a member of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) Board of Directors! CAFS is a non-profit organization that promotes interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach related to food systems. As a community, CAFS facilitates partnerships between researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders in the food industry to address pressing food-related issues in ways that enhance and support equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization. As a board member, you’d be minimally expected to join one video call per month. We’d also hope that you contribute to our collective work in other ways—key tasks include organizing the annual conference, allocating [...]
Food, Empire and Colonialism: From Palestine to Turtle Island
Organized by the Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) ad hoc Committee on Palestine and the Right to Food In this discussion, panelists will examine the relationship between food, empire and colonialism, drawing connections between the current genocide in Gaza with colonial projects across Africa and Turtle Island. Panelists will discuss how imperial and colonial regimes have and continue to use deliberate starvation and the weaponization of food and food growing lands as a means of genocidal violence. Amid the horrific settler colonial violence happening in Gaza, we also raise crucial questions about the role of food in culture, [...]
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2022 CAFS Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2022 CAFS Awards! Each year, CAFS recognizes the contributions and work of our members. This year we are accepting nominations in two categories: Student Paper Award in Food Studies Award for Excellence in Public Service Please send nominations for either award to the CAFS Administrator. See details below. Nominations will be forwarded to the Awards Committee. You are welcome to nominate yourself or someone else. Submission deadline: March 31, 2022 Notification of awards: April 15, 2022 Student Paper Award Launched in [...]
Call for Commentaries—Confronting Racism in Food Systems
Canadian Food Studies Call for Commentaries Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada Systemic anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Asian racism pervades food systems in Canada, resulting in structural inequities across the food chain. In recognition of this reality, and as part of the Canadian Association for Food Studies’ commitment to the work of social and environmental justice, described in part in our statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism, we call for contributions for a themed issue of Canadian Food Studies: Confronting Anti- Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada. For complete details, [...]
Resources on Food and Racism in So-Called Canada
As part of CAFS’ commitment to the work of anti-racism, described in part in our statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism, we are compiling an open access list of resources at the intersection of food systems, racialized violence, and oppression. The first iteration of CAFS Compendium of Resources on Food and Racism in So-Called Canada was crowdsourced through a call-out to our listserv and network. We asked for recommendations for a diverse range of resources including, but not limited to, scholarship, websites, organizations, webinars, podcasts and journalism, focused within the Canadian context. In the interest of transparency, [...]
Webinar: The Many Truths of Food and Nutrition
Join us for a lively, fast-paced webinar with critical nutrition scholars Alissa Overend and Jennifer Brady, as they unpack the contextual nature of “truth” when it comes to food. As Oscar Wilde wrote, “the truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This deep dive into nutrition, health and wellness, science, and commercial messaging features our presenters discussing: Alissa’s powerful new book, Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture “Truths that make us mad!” (including Canada’s Food Guide, food labelling and advertising, singular food truths) Ways for the rest of us to adapt our own understanding of nutritional science [...]
Just Food conference poster art
These beautiful illustrations, part of the Just Food conference artwork, are by DC Artist and Educator Aaron Bland. More information is available on the Inprnt website, where you can also purchase posters of his work.
2021 CAFS Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2021 CAFS Awards! Each year, CAFS recognizes the contributions and work of our members. This year we are accepting nominations in two categories: Student Paper Award in Food Studies Research Award for Excellence in Food Studies Please send nominations for either award to the CAFS Administrator. See details below. Nominations will be forwarded to the Awards Committee. You are welcome to nominate yourself or someone else. Submission deadline: April 30, 2021 Notification of awards: May 20, 2021 Student Paper Award Launched in 2011, this award was created to recognize scholarly excellence and encourage [...]
Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw Fishery
Statement on the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw Moderate Livelihood Fishery We, the editorial collective for the Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, the official journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies / L’Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CAFS/ACÉA), along with the board of CAFS/ACÉA, are deeply concerned about the unlawful and unjust actions being taken in Nova Scotia that threaten the lives and livelihoods of the Sipekne’katik peoples. We urge the federal government to work in full support of the inherent rights and treaty rights of Mi’kmaq people to hunt, fish, and gather, as protected [...]
Racialized police violence and systemic racism
CAFS statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism The full statement is also available as a PDF file in English and French. We will post updates and next steps to this page. On behalf of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), we write this letter to acknowledge the historic and contemporary systemic oppressions that are part of a living reality for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour across the globe. The consequences of such inequities are visible in the recent deaths of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, David McAtee, Chantel Moore, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among others, [...]
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