The Nourishing Trust symposia focused on how food acts as an anchor for trust-building relationships.
Over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, C21 offered an array of programming and content centered on food’s unique relationship with trust: food and land access as catalysts in this relationship, food as a means of developing connection across communities, and the policy decisions which continue to affect our relationship with food.
As with all C21 symposia, Nourishing Trust offered multiple points of access honoring multiple ways of knowing, allowing academic scholars, community experts, and general audiences to explore how food helps narrate past injustices and the regeneration and restoration of community building and nutritional access today.
Roundtable Conversations
These virtual gatherings of scholars and leaders, designed to inform and deepen conversations on a range of topics. Each one has its own curated list of readings / viewings that can be integrated into formal and informal classroom discussions.
A conversation about the histories that inform food and land justice efforts today.
- Laura Manthe, Oneida Nation
- Adrienne Petty, William & Mary College
- Jayson Porter, Brown University
A conversation about the philosophies behind equitable food production systems built on trust.
- Elizabeth Gabriel, Groundswell Center
- Cherie Rivers, UNC Chapel Hill
- Martice Scales, Full Circle Healing Farms
A conversation about how trust operates in current food and land justice efforts.
- Linda Black Elk, United Tribes Technical College
- Anton Seals, Jr., Grow Greater Englewood
- Brittany Koteles, Nuns & Nones Land Justice Project
Interactive Book Club
The Interactive Book Club expanded the scope of C21’s Nourishing Trust roundtable conversations by promoting discussion, collaboration, and exploration.
Food Journeys Participatory Research Project
In connection with the Nourishing Trust programming, C21 gathered stories about individual Food journeys. This survey included six questions that aimed to document the specific pathways to places that people frequent for nourishment. It aimed to map our “food journeys.”
The results of this survey were used for narrative and visual projects, including a food journeys map, intended to help community partners connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) understand the significance of this topic.
You can still contribute to this project.
Please note that, for the reasons outlined above, this survey asks for and logs your geographic location. You can choose to disclose part or all of your name. Otherwise, this survey remains anonymous.
