Sheldon Museum of Art presents a conversation with Ijeoma Oluo, author of “So You Want to Talk About Race,” and Soleil Ho, restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and producer of the podcast “Racist Sandwich.” Casey Kelly, associate professor of communications studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will moderate the discussion.
The conversation, “A Diverse Menu: Race, Gender, Class, and the Things We Eat,” is February 19 at 6 p.m. in Sheldon’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Additionally, it will be live-streamed at go.unl.edu/diverse-menu.
“A Diverse Menu” will use Sheldon’s exhibition “Table Manners: Art and Food” as a starting point for the conversation about food and social structures. Admission is free both to the museum and to the event.
About the speakers
Ijeoma Oluo was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 and winner of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society. Oluo was also named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle magazine and one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, NBC News, ELLE magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets. Her work primarily focuses on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, and the arts.
In December, the San Francisco Chronicle named Soleil Ho the paper’s new restaurant critic, replacing Michael Bauer, who retired after more than three decades in the role. As a trained chef, Soleil Ho has worked for restaurants in New Orleans and Minneapolis. In 2018, she received a Southern Foodways Alliance Smith Symposium Fellowship and an 11th-Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing has been published by the New Yorker, GQ, Eater, TASTE, and Bitch Media, among others. Ho is also the author of the graphic novel, “Meal.” Ho’s work engages the intersections between what we consume and how we see ourselves and our world.
Casey Kelly studies rhetoric and cultural studies and explores a range of cultural proxy wars concerning gender, race, and nationalism, including food and globalization. He is author of the book “Food Television and Other in an Age of Globalization,” and his writing has appeared in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, among others. Kelly is the 2018 recipient of the National Communication Association’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/bvkr