Nipissing University News Release ********************** Nipissing University is pleased to announce a two-day workshop October 2 – 4, discussing subsistence relationships titled Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows: A Workshop on Subsistence Econ
Nipissing University is pleased to announce a two-day workshop October 2 – 4, discussing subsistence relationships titled Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows: A Workshop on Subsistence Economies.
The workshop aims to bring together emerging scholarship on subsistence and mixed economies, both contemporary and throughout history. Subsistence relationships illustrate the complexity of economic exchanges, as well as in human/nature interactions. Discussions at the workshop will draw upon these complex networks to help understand the continuing significance of subsistence at different scales.
While the subsistence scale has often been seen as a stepping-stone to larger, more complex relationships of exchange, local and subsistence economies have received a recent revival due to both environmental and economic crises. North Bay has a long history of vibrant subsistence and small-scale productions, including wild berries,fisheries, and forestry.
The workshop begins on Friday, October 2, at 7:30 p.m. with a panel discussion at the WKP Kennedy Gallery (150 Main Street East), titled Contemplating Local Food. The panel will address questions such as: Where does your food come from?, Does it matter?, and How do you “eat locally” in Northern Ontario? Panelists include Jeremy St. Onge, wild foods enthusiast, from Amanita to Zinania; Dave Lewington, from Dalew Farms in Lavigne, Ontario; Lucy Emmott, gardener; and Yan of Piebird, vegetable grower and eater.
On Saturday, the workshop moves to Nipissing University’s Monastery Hall for opening remarks at 9 a.m. Over the weekend, 13 pre-selected papers will form the spine of the discussion. The keynote address, taking place on Sunday at 11 a.m., will be provided by Colin Duncan, author of The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature.
The workshop is free of charge and is open to everyone.
Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows: A Workshop on Subsistence Economies is sponsored by The Department of History at Nipissing University, the Canada Research Chair in Environmental History, and the Network in Canadian History of the Environment (NiCHE).
To view the workshop’s program, please visit: www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/jamesm/subsistence/page20/page20.html
