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For the coming three weeks we move onto our FOOD layer of the class. We will be meeting at The Maryland Room (downstairs) at Marie Mount Hall, which is the building next door to Woods Hall and Women's Studies on the Mall.
The building is a bit of a Maze, so it is best if you enter NOT ON SIDE WITH ARROW ABOVE, but rather on the opposite side close to the Chapel. Go in the doors and to the left and down at the bottom of the stairs is The Maryland Room. Two entrances, one from stairs, one from basement floor if you find yourself there.
We will discuss what we shall do Making-wise in the next 3 weeks. It will involve making food, eating it, preparing it, sharing it. Bring food. Bring feelings about food. Bring knowledges about making food. What issues does food raise for you? personally, in terms of social justice, in ways that affect your life, in forms that worry you, in things you like and don't like and why, and when you know and when you don't! What stories about food do you have? does your family have? how does this matter in Women's Studies: guessing is good!
To get an idea about how to think about some of these questions, see Katie's presentation in Sweden, here: Please have read this BEFORE class on the 22nd. (Do you know how to read a website?) be ready to discuss and talk as well as make and eat.
http://spiralfood.blogspot.com
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Thursday 22 Sept – Food: feelings, eatings, stories, how to do it.
WE MEET AT THE MARYLAND ROOM FOR THE NEXT 3 CLASSES: 0100 Marie Mount, next to Woods Hall.
ALWAYS NOTICE ANYTHING
NEW ON THE CLASS WEBSITE AND READ BOTH POSTS AND LINKS.
• WEB & WORLD ASSIGNMENT: Bring food. Bring feelings about food. Bring knowledges about making food. What issues does food raise for you? personally, in terms of social justice, in ways that affect your life, in forms that worry you, in things you like and don't like and why, and when you know and when you don't! What stories about food do you have? does your family have? how does this matter in Women's Studies: guessing is good!
• READ: Katie's presentation in Sweden, here:
http://spiralfood.blogspot.com Please have read this BEFORE class on the 22nd.
(Do you know how to read a website?) Be ready to discuss and talk as well as make and eat.
• MAKING: Spiralizing & fermentations. We will assemble a spiralized vegetarian dish: Zucchini "noodles" with home made Pesto from the Farmer's Market, and pea shoots. We will taste two kinds of sauerkraut and one kind of kimchi, all fermented traditional foods now promoted in new eating regimes.
• CLASS PROJECTS BEGIN: We will start making plans for projects for the class, taking inventory of your interests and ideas about women's studies.
• ESTABLISHING PRACTICES: We will consider what sort of learning space and community we are creating, and how we enter that space.
• KATIE WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER CLASS FOR ANY CONCERNS, QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION, IDEAS YOU MAY WANT TO SHARE.
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Who was Marie Mount? What is the history of Marie Mount Hall at UMD?
"The hall was originally an addition to Silvester Hall and was called the Home Economics Bldg. In 1947, the addition was renovated. It was first named Margaret Brent Hall in 1959. It was renamed Marie Mount Hall in 1969. In 1980, it underwent another renovation and an addition."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park_Campus_Buildings
Who was Margaret Brent?
"With Anne Hutchinson, Brent ranks among the most prominent female figures in early Colonial American history. Hailed as a feminist by some in modern times in advancing rights of women under the laws, her insistent advocacy of her legal prerogatives as an unmarried gentlewoman of property, while notable in its exceptional energy, was consistent on paper with English law. However, in the rough, male dominated world of the colonies, her stance for her rights and her independence was unusual in actual practice and it would have been fairly uncommon back in England in that period."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Brent
"This week the spotlight shines on Marie Mount Hall, named for M. Marie Mount, who came to campus in 1919 as the head of the Department of Home and Institution Management and served as the dean of the College of Home Economics from 1927 until her death in 1957. The building was constructed in 1940 and originally named Margaret Brent Hall after the colonial Marylander who was the first American woman to request the right to vote. But in 1967, the Board of Regents voted to change the name to Marie Mount Hall. At one time, Miss Mount supposedly lived in the building in a special dean’s apartment there. She was much loved by her students, and University President Wilson Elkins declared in a 1957 memorial to the dean that “The character of Marie Mount will live forever.”"
https://umdarchives.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/ghostly-encounters-whos-playing-the-piano-in-marie-mount-hall/
[image from: http://www.newsline.umd.edu/photos/ghoststory/mariemountportrait102706.jpg ]
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FOOD LAYER => Climate change & Alternative Economies
Making food, eating it, preparing it, sharing it. Bring food. Bring feelings about food. Bring knowledges about making food.
What issues does food raise for you?
• personally
• in terms of social justice
• in ways that affect your life
• in forms that worry you
• in things you like and don't like and why
• when you know and when you don't!
• What stories about food do you have? does your family have?
• how does this matter in Women's Studies: guessing is good!
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What do you know about the UMD campus food pantry? http://campuspantry.umd.edu
Eliminate food hardship at the UMD College Park campus:
- Creating a safe space to distribute good quality and nutritious emergency food to current UMD-College Park students, faculty and staff.
- Creating and promoting a space on campus dedicated to food donation collection.
- Collecting good quality and nutritious food items (donations) that may otherwise go to waste to enhance sustainability initiatives on campus.
- Raising awareness around hunger issues, especially as experienced by low-income college students.
- Encouraging student engagement to foster a sense of community, volunteerism and service to peers on campus.
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