Anthro conference focuses on food

his spring's Challenges to Communities conference will examine the varied ways food is used to build connections between people when the Department of Anthropology hosts discussions and a guest speaker on Friday, April 23.

"Food, Community, and Identity," the theme for the sixth annual gathering, will begin at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation of student research about the Rochester Public Market, followed by a panel discussion on how people in Rochester provide food for themselves. At 4:30 p.m., anthropologist Susan Andreatta will talk about "Urban Connections to Locally Grown Produce: Examples from North Carolina." Andreatta, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is director of Project Green Leaf, which is dedicated to sustaining local agriculture by strengthening the relationship between farmers and consumers.

On the panel titled "Feeding Rochester," undergraduates and invited guests from Foodlink, a food bank that distributes produce and packaged goods to human service providers in Western New York, and Politics of Food, a local advocacy group, will discuss the problems and prospects of the local food system.

The annual anthropology spring conference promotes student research and seeks to create campus/community partnerships within Rochester. Robert Foster, associate professor of anthropology and chair of the department, planned this year's program. For more information, call x5-8614.

All events will be held in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library and are free and open to the public.

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