Biomigrations: Food Sovereignty, Security, and Justice in the Americas -Day 2

April 3, 2021
“Biomigrations,” as Jesús Nazario defines it, is a way to reconsider notions of Life and Movement. It is a way to explore one’s community, self, and spirit(s) through violence, refusal, and Indigenous rooting. In other words, Biomigrations is premised on the idea that humans need to know how we are enacting structural pain(s) to humans and non-humans through our Being (violence), how we have arrived at such becoming (refusal), and where we have come from (Indigenous rooting).
The conference’s main goal will be to collaboratively connect American scholars, community members, and artists through the lenses of Food Sovereignty, Food Security, and Food Justice. The Biomigrations conference will also give specific focus on Indigenous and Black knowledge, people, and lands.
Agenda
Land acknowledgement, opening remarks by Julisa Lopez, member of Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
[Panel] Archiving Plant Memories: Preserving BIPOC Sovereignty in Garden Spaces
Book presentation: Teotihuacan Cuisine
[Panel] Planting Justice: Decolonization, Abolition and Food Systems Change
Keynote: Elsadig Elsheikh, Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley
Gratitude Ceremony and Conclusion