Biomigrations: Food Sovereignty, Security, and Justice in the Americas -Day 1

April 2, 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 acknowledgment and Introduction to Biomigrations
[Panel] From Security to Expansion: Framing New Food Categories and Experiences
Movie screening: Raspando Coco
[Panel] Cultivating Solidarity: Garden Worlding Across Fields
[Panel] (Un)bounded Food Histories: Towards Sovereignty and Resistance
Keynote: Elizabeth Hoover, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and
Management, UC Berkeley