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Food and Thought Intercultural Mela
24 – 25 February 2006
Hamilton, Victoria
Speakers
Stephanie Alexander OAM
For decades, Stephanie has been an ardent champion for the quality and diversity of Australian food. Stephanie will speak about her experiences with the Kitchen Garden project at Melbourne’s Collingwood College which she established to encourage young children to grow, harvest, prepare and share good food.
Jenny Bell
Jenny Bell is the Manager of Operations and Professional Development at RMIT Hamilton. She is keen to see a thriving market operating in the Hamilton region and supports integrated research into the economic, social and environmental effects of farmers’ markets on producers, consumers and the community at all levels.
Dr Heather Builth
Heather is an archaeologist who has spent over ten years researching the ecological, economic and social history of Gunditjmara aquaculture, one of the world’s earliest fishing industries, in the Lake Condah region of southwest Victoria. Her research continues to work towards a better understanding of the sustainability and productivity of indigenous land management practices, particularly eel farming in a wetland-based landscape, and the traditional socio-economy of Gunditjmara smoked eel trading. She is currently working with the Gunditjmara community on the Lake Condah Sustainable Partnership Project and is director of the Glenelg-Hopkins Catchment Management Authority Board.
Peta Christensen
Peta Christensen has worked with Cultivating Community since 2000 on urban agriculture and food security projects including the Kitchen Garden at Collingwood College, community gardens in public housing neighbourhoods, community markets and a garden at Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre. In 2004 she recieved a Churchill Fellowship to similar projects around the world.
Susan Cleary
Susan completed her MA in Gastronomy at Adelaide University in 2004. She is currently a Phd candidate at the Faculty of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne, where her research will critically examine alternative agri-food networks and the links between landscape, locality, farming and food.
Richard Cornish
Richard Cornish is a freelance television producer, food writer and sausage expert. Farm boy by birth, city dweller by economic necessity, he writes food articles that highlight the connection between the land, producer, chef and consumer and its significance to food diversity and taste. Richard is member of The Age Good Food Guide editorial panel.
Phemie Day
Hugh Delahunty
Hugh Delahunty MP is the Member for Lowan in Victoria, a rural electorate located north-west of Melbourne.
Kelly Donati
Kelly Donati is a researcher within the Globalism Institute’s Community Sustainability project, with a particular focus on the Papua New Guinea and Hamilton research sites. Originally from Montreal, Canada, her research focuses on the centrality of food to our cultural and ecological wellbeing. In 2004, she completed her MA in the Gastronomy program at Adelaide University where her thesis focused on the ethical, ecological and political dimensions of the Slow Food movement. She is interested in examining the relationship between agriculture/food policy (regionally and globally), with a particular emphasis on community sustainability and food sovereignty.
Mary Ellis
Mary lives near Daylesford and the Slow Food Central Victoria convivium leader. Slow Food is an international movement that seeks to draws together gastronomy and politics, agriculture and environment, pleasure and responsibility in thinking about global and local food systems. A passionate cook and gardener, the connection between the producer and the plate is of great importance to her, as is the fate of food, the farmer and quality of life. She is currently attempting to start up kitchen gardens at schools in her district.
Zannie Flanagan
Restaurateur, olive oil producer and passionate supporter of local foods, Zannie will speak as the driving force behind the highly successful Willunga Market of South Australia which has stimulated the local economy and brought Willunga community closer to the food growers and producers in the region.
Prof. Paul James
Prof James is the director of the Globalism Institute and a leading thinker on globalization and cultural diversity. His writing has been recognized with several awards, including the Crisp Medal in 1996 for the best book in the field of political studies. His central research areas are social theory and politics with an emphasis on cultural and technological change.
Mick Leeming
Mick Leeming, is the Mayor of the Southern Grampians Shire Council
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture. Helena has been working for several decades to strengthen local food economies and promote more sustainable and equitable patterns of living around the world. Her work in Ladakh is internationally acclaimed, and in 1986, Helena and the Lakakh Ecological Development Group received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize.
Olive McVicker
Olive McVicker is a member of the Globalism Institute’s Local-Global Project Critical Reference Group in Hamilton.
Dr Martin Mulligan
Widely published in the field of social ecology, Martin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute. His research focuses on ways of deepening understandings of sustainability through the promotion of ‘ecological literacy’ and exploring how a deeper ‘sense of place’ can bring together concerns for the environmental and social sustainability of local communities. In particular, Martin is interested in how we Australians might rethink our attitudes to water by ‘re-immersing’ ourselves in the hydrological cycle.
Yaso Nadarajah
Dr Yaso Nadarajah was born in Malaysia and educated in India and Australia. Her work has been in conceptualizing and establishing educational programs in Malaysia and Australia. Working with the Hamilton region for over a decade, her work in the last three years has been focused on establishing programs that engage different communities with RMIT University in developing new teaching, learning and research activities with an emphasis on local-global partnerships and cultural diversity. Her research focuses on understanding the processes of community sustainability and community engaged research in order to explore the nature and impetus of creative transformative spaces.
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour of Mount Zero Olives is a biodynamic olive grower and olive oil producer from the Wimmera region running a family owned business committed to sustainable agriculture and respect for the environment.
Marilyn Shady
Originally from the Hamilton region, Marilyn is a student in the Gastronomy program at Adelaide University and teaches food studies at William Angliss TAFE in Melbourne. Whether it is in a TAFE environment or whether it is teaching young people to make better food choices, Marilyn’s research emphasises a gastronomic approach to food education that highlights taste and pleasure rather than focusing entirely on nutritional content. Marilyn also has a longstanding interest in how local food histories are reflected in community cookbooks.
Ken Saunders
Ken Saunders is a member of the Globalism Institute’s Local-Global Project Critical Reference Group in Hamilton.
Howard Templeton
Howard Templeton is a Councillor with the Southern Grampians Shire Council.
Gary Thomas
Gary is from Central Victoria where he runs a catering business. As a food writer for Earth Garden magazine, he is deeply committed to connecting the planet to the plate. Gary will speak about his recent project assisting secondary students in Daylesford to research the gastronomic heritage of their community and to produce and market traditional bullboar sausages, a local food icon.
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