Fast Food for Thought is an annual event where a group of interdisciplinary UM SFSI faculty and staff affiliates give a series of 5 minute talks related to food and/or agriculture.
2024 Event Information
Date: Tuesday, April 16th
Time: 6:30-8pm
Location: Lorch Hall, Room 140
Past event videos here.
2024 Speakers
| Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title | Resources |
| Benjamin Goldstein | SEAS, Sustainable Urban-Rural Futures (SURF) lab | “Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture” | Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture |
| Keith Soster | Maize & Blue Cupboard; Michigan Dining | “Michigan Dining and Sustainable Food Systems” | |
| Alyssa Paredes | LSA (Anthropology) | “Bananapocalypse: Incurable Disease and Experimental Science at the Edge of Big Ag” | Filipino Spaghetti Recipe Experimental Science for the ‘Bananapocalypse’: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene |
| Bénédicte Boisseron | LSA (Afroamerican and African Studies) | “Eat Your Vegetables!: Root Diet in a Contaminated Caribbean Soil” | |
| Juli McLoone | University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center | “The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive: A Resource for You!” | |
| Jennifer Garner | SPH | “Aligning values across the food chain to improve public health outcomes” | Local Food System Approaches to Address Food and Nutrition Security among Low-Income Populations: A Systematic Review Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches |
| Lunia Evodie Oriol | Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | “The Last Agricultural ‘Frontiers’: Planning For Food Security in a Changing American Subarctic” | Climate opportunism and values of change on the Arctic agricultural frontier The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers Op-ed: Climate Change Is Bringing Agriculture to the Arctic. Let’s Prioritize Food Sovereignty. Seeing Green: Lifecycles of an Arctic Agricultural Frontier |
| Lisa Young | LSA (Anthropology) | “Student Activism and Food at U-M: A View From the Early 20th Century” | Everyday Foods in War Times |
| Parijat Chakrabarti | Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise | “Digital Platforms and Agricultural Transformation in East Africa” | Nairobi in Cross-Section |
| dawn weleski | UM Student Life Sustainability | “Eating within the Belly of the Beast” |
Check out the video archive from previous years.
The Goals of Fast Food for Thought are to:
- Foster cross campus, interdisciplinary collaboration
- Generate knowledge (in the form of 5 minute video clips)
- Help define the emerging and interdisciplinary field of sustainable food systems
- Communicate about the broad range of food systems research and work happening across the University
What participants and attendees have said about Fast Food for Thought
