UAA Alert! Anchorage Campus Inclement Weather Notice for Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

Due to unsafe road conditions for Anchorage and surrounding areas, UAA’s Anchorage campus will be on a delayed start today, Thursday, Dec. 4. Campus will open at 10 a.m. to allow for safer travel.

Panel: Food as Solidarity and Social Connection

Day 1, Morning Session I, 8:30 am - 10:10 am, RH 101

(Theme: Food as Influencer and Disruptor)

  1. “Can Friendship Improve Local and Sustainable Food Initiatives?: Insights from an Urban Farm,” Jared Strohl, University at Buffalo
  2. “Ethnic Identity Conceptualizations and Food Habits Among Roma and Calons in Brazil,” Diana Budur, Independent Scholar
  3. “This Anti-Plantation Banana Goes to Market: The Eccentric Commodity Chains of Wild Cavendish between the Philippines and Japan,” Alyssa Paredes, Yale University
  4. "All The Year Round": Punch Bowl Conviviality and Nonlinear Time in the Work of Charles Dickens,” Deirdre Murphy, CIA.