Eaten Up: Food, God and Us

Everyone has a ‘food story’.

Food is essential to life, yet is contested at just about every level – from our individual relationships with it (do we under-eat, over-eat, obsess about it, not care about it?), to its wider political significances.

This day will be exploratory and participatory. We will look at issues of:

• food and identity: body image, health and wellbeing, links with mental health, food as culture;
• food and politics: food poverty, gifting food, inequality, starvation as a weapon; self-starvation as a political tool, sustainability; food security;
• food and spirituality: fasting, eating, mysticism, the bread of life, manna from heaven.

Contact Alison Ogden for all enquiries. Email aogden@sarum.ac.uk or telephone 01722 424826.