Online lecture “Rethinking Food Regime as Gender Regime: Agrarian Change and the Politics of Social Reproduction”
October 27th, 5:00 PM, IIRPS VU Facebook page
We are inviting you to the lecture “Rethinking Food Regime as Gender Regime: Agrarian Change and the Politics of Social Reproduction” by dr. Diana Mincyte, Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York-City Tech. The lecture will take place on October 27, 5:00 PM.
The lecture will be streamed online – over the Facebook page of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University.
Those willing to watch over zoom have to register : https://bit.ly/Registracija1027
The event will be moderated by prof. Natalija Arlauskaitė (Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations and Political Science). The lecture will be in English, the following discussion will be conducted in Lithuanian as well.
This lecture presents a synthetic reading of the food regime and gender regime concepts to consider current trends in deagrarianization. Its underlying goal is to articulate a research agenda for studying the food regime through the lens of gender and labour relations. Combining insights from feminist scholarship it underscores the role of social reproduction in shaping agro-food systems and reconsiders family, kinship and strong ties as a form of social organization of production relations. It also underscores the role of temporalities of social and biological reproduction of households and kinship networks in conceptualizing the food regime evolution.
Diana Mincytė is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York-City Tech. Her research focuses on citizenship, subsistence, and self-reliance; food and environmental politics; gender and agriculture; sociology of science and technology; and socialism/postsocialism in Eastern Europe. Prior to joining CUNY, she held fellowships in the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany; the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University; and European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University; and was a visiting fellow in European Studies at Harvard University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other agencies.
The event is part of the Vilnius University gender research seminar series.
Seminar series are organized by Feminist politic and critical theory research group at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science and Thinking Motherhood research group at the Faculty of Philology.
