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Southern Foodways Alliance Film Festival

One of the markers of the South is good old fashioned Southern cooking, like shrimp and grits, cornbread or collard greens. But it’s important to see how food can form an identity of a region and how cultures can be influenced by this. You’d never guess that food would have such a deep connection to history and its relation to our diet. A prelude event for Winthrop University’s 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference, The World of Food, called “Diversity and Creativity in Southern Food Culture” was held on Feb. 20 in the Rutledge auditorium. The event featured a presentation of documentaries from the Southern Foodways Alliance website about diversity of Southern cuisine from the eyes of chefs in the South. Winthrop French assistant professor Anna Igou was one of the hosts of…
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Where studies combine

Kristin Stolle has used art to highlight the environmental issues of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), created by a company called Monsanto. Stolle’s work, ‘Selective Memory’ has been on display in the Winthrop Galleries since December and will remain there until March 6. Winthrop’s department of interdisciplinary studies wanted to continue and expand upon this subject. On Tuesday, Feb. 12 a panel discussion on the topic of GMOs was held with panelists Joshua McDonald, professor of human nutrition, Laura Ullrich, professor of economics,  Cindy Tant, professor of biology and moderated by Marsha Bollinger, the interdisciplinary studies chair. McDonald began by explaining that a big concern with genetically modified foods is the concern on how consuming different DNA through their diets can affect people. This is what initially lead Stolle to begin…
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Natives of Sucusari: Meeting the Maijuna

TJ staff member reports from abroad in the Amazon rainforest Thoughts of “indigenous Amazonians” often, with the help of inaccurate media portrayals, conjure images of remote and uncivilized tribes who speak solely in their native tongue and wear little clothing. An excursion to Sucusari to visit the Maijuna peoples revealed this as an imperfect rendering. Although their unique culture is intact, this is due to deliberate initiatives and thoughtful interactions with outsiders. The Maijuna are one of Peru’s most vulnerable ethnic groups, according to Nature and Culture International, numbering fewer than 500 people. A Maijuna chief, Romero Rios, proposed to establish a conservation area in 2008 that would protect the four remaining villages of their ancestral homeland in the Amazon. This resulted in the development of the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation…
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