Menu

Participants are encouraged to host a potluck in your department or museum, and come together over food to participate in the webcast

Appetizer: 1:45 p.m. (ET)

Introduction, Elizabeth Merritt, founding director, AAM's Center for the Future of Museums

Thought Leaders:

• Jeannette Ickovics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Conn., addressing how museums can promote food literacy and improve community health
  
  
• Elizabeth Meltz, director of food safety and sustainability, Batali/Bastianich Hospitality Group, New York, on bringing food services into alignment with values of sustainability and green operations
  
  
• Erika Allen, Chicago and National Outreach Coordinator, Growing Power, on museums, food & social justice

Main Course: 3 pm (ET)

Moderated discussion and Q&A

• Elizabeth Merritt, AAM, moderator
• Ismael Calderon, director of science, Newark Museum
• 2012 CFM Lecturer Jessica Harris, culinary historian
• Jane Pickering, associate director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Dessert: 3:45 p.m. (ET)

Keynote Lecture, Jessica Harris

"Serve it Up Proudly! Some Food for Thought on The Intersections of Food Studies and Museums"

Virtual Happy Hour: 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Discussion and activities at viewing sites, on-line chat and sharing information