Food resists disciplinarity: it is integral to the construction of identity and af liation, it generates cross-sector consequences throughout its interactive ecologies, and it is a source of comfort and contamination, pro t and memory, pride and disparity. The aim of Critical Food Studies is to differentiate between iterating the status quo and innovating mindfully, a notion inspired by critical designers Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. This event offers an introduction to the 2016–17 program of the CISSC-af liated Food Studies Research Group, and a chance to learn about recent activity in Critical Food scholarship.

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In addition to a short presentation on Critical Food Studies by Concordia faculty members, a number of current and past Concordia students will present their research, to be followed by the launch of the recently published Conversations in Food Studies (University of Manitoba Press). A collaboratively edited collection, the book demonstrates the value of interdiscipli- nary research through the cross-pollination of epistemological and methodological perspectives.Widely diverse essays range from food systems visualizations to the bring-your-own-wine movement to re exive and performance-based methods, inter- spersed with synthesis discussions by leading Canadian food scholars.