Food & Feeling: Thinking Through Food In South Africa
Launch of the book published by ESI: ‘Thinking Through Food in South Africa: Embodiment, Performance and Representation’ View the event…
Food & Feeling
Join us for a festival of activities and the launch of the book published by ESI: ‘Thinking Through Food in…
Making Food Sovereignty Conversations Accessible
The Food (R)evolution Exhibition is a “travelling documentary photography-as-public art outdoor installation,” designed by the Sustainability Institute, the Center forComplex…
Reflections on Carlo Petrini’s Cape Town visit
On the 16th of August 2016, the president and founder of Slow Food, Carlo Petrini, visited Cape Town to give…
Cultural heritage and risk assessments: Gaps, challenges, and future research directions for the inclusion of heritage within climate change adaptation and disaster management
Cultural heritage shapes our identity, delivers capacities, and exposes vulnerabilities, yet cultural heritage value and vulnerability are largely missing from…
“Elandskloof: A Chronology of Loss”
Historical Injustice and Elandskloof Prof Siona O’Connell and Ms Dominque Wnuczek-Lobaczewski work in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies,…
“TOWARDS A CLIMATE OF CHANGE: Symposium”
The Critical African Studies Programme (CAST) and the School of the Arts (SOTA) hosted a symposium on 20 June 2023….
“Peppers bring sweetness to Elandskloof restitution site”
The Elandskloof community, near Citrusdal have found new hope in working together towards the success of a garden project which has seen the planting of various vegetables in greenhouse tunnels, across their restituted land.
Beyond the Pot: Story-ed South African Flavours
This cookbook project aims to gather various narratives (autobiographical, fictional, biographical and ethnographic) that foreground descriptions of dishes and their…
“Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene”
While food is at the core of what it means to be human because we need it to sustain ourselves, it is not just the case that ‘we are what we eat’ because our collective lives and cultures are structured around and relate to food in multifaceted ways that prompt deeper questions.