Milk and Whiteness (online)
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Online event
Take a fresh look at milk and its associations with purity, whiteness and the politics of diet and nutrition
About this event
What you'll do
Join us for a panel discussion exploring milk’s associations with purity and whiteness and the racialised politics of diet and nutrition.
Long held to be the cornerstone of good nutrition, milk is entangled with histories of nationalism, empire and food inequality. What can a closer look at milk tell us about the ideas and forces that have shaped our global food systems?
You’ll hear different perspectives from our speakers and then have the chance to share your thoughts, ask questions or just listen.
You are booking a ticket to join this event online only, via Wellcome Collection’s YouTube channel. You'll be able to ask questions online during the event via youtube chat. After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions. If you want to attend the event in-venue, you will instead need to book the 'in-venue' ticket on our website.
About your speakers
Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
Johanna is Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the different ways in which nations, institutions and individuals navigate ethical borderlands surrounding the ways in which colonialism is both remembered and structurally embedded in the present.
Fozia Isamil
Fozia is a scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food. She has worked with a range of cultural institutions on exploring food and empire including BBC Radio 4, London School of Economics, Tate Modern, National Trust and Bristol Old Vic.
Andrea Freeman
Andrea Freeman is Professor of Law and Carlsmith Ball Faculty Scholar at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law. She is a Fulbright King’s College London Research Scholar currently doing research on food oppression in the UK. She is the author of 'Ruin Their Crops on the Ground' (forthcoming 2023) and 'Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice' (2019). She writes and researches at the intersection of critical race theory and food policy, health, and consumer credit, with a special interest in the whiteness of milk.
Tickets
Booking a ticket guarantees you entry to the online event. You will be given joining instructions in your confirmation email. If you have any access requests or requirements, for example a transcript of the event, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.
Speech-to-text
This event will have live automated speech-to-text transcription which may be useful for people who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, deafened or neurodiverse. The text will be embedded in the event video window and ticketholders will also receive a link to open subtitles in a separate window.
British Sign Language
This event is British Sign Language interpreted. An interpreter will be embedded in the event stream/visible to all attendees and will interpret what is discussed into BSL for d/Deaf, hard of hearing and deafened attendees.
Audio described
The host and speakers will describe themselves and key visual elements they refer to, which may be useful for blind, partially sighted and neurodiverse attendees. There will not be a separate audio description track.
