We are pleased to announce the inaugural conference event, Leavening the Conversation: Intersections of Food, Feminism, and Fermentation, to be held over the weekend of September 30 – October 1, 2017, at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) located on the 2nd floor of 3487 Peel Street, of McGill University.

Program: http://www.foodfeminismfermentation.com/p/schedule.html
Register by September 25: http://bit.ly/2fqMQKS
This bilingual event is free and open to the public.

To kick-off the weekend, join us on September 29th (6pm-8pm) for the vernissage of the conference’s complementary exhibition at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine on “The Gendered Cultures of Beer and Cheese: the Regulation of Human and Microbial Bodies on the Home and Industrial Scales, 1616-2017.”

More information about the exhibition can be found here: http://bit.ly/2y6zXws

Please feel free to circulate this event notice widely.
All questions can be directed to: foodfeminismfermentation[at]gmail.com