From Kunafa to Korma: Archiving Food Workshop

​In what ways is food political? How have food traditions evolved over time? How is power produced, negotiated, and subverted through the culinary?

​This interactive workshop will explore food in its many dimensions, encouraging participants to think about the role of food in their own traditions.

​Together, we will explore new ways of thinking about, listening to, and archiving food.

​About your host: Food anthropologist, recent Harvard College graduate, and two times Tedx speaker, Jana Amin reimagines food as a conduit for community healing, archiving, and political education. At Harvard, she led the Society of Arab Students and curated Surah, a digital archive of Muslim women on social media. Driven by her love of the culinary, Jana wrote an award-winning senior thesis on Palestinian kitchens, based on six months of ethnographic work with Palestinian women in Cairo.