UA Hosts Symposium to Address Food and Water Challenges
The University of Alabama recently hosted “Multiple Inequalities in Every Meal: Theorizing Intersectional Foodways, Past and Present.” This interdisciplinary workshop assembled an international panel of food scholars from archaeology, cultural anthropology, American studies, women’s studies and African American studies to engage in discourse about the ways inequality was manufactured and maintained in the past and…
Combating the Harmful Effects of Illicit Supply Networks
A recent workshop co-hosted by the Alabama Water Institute aims to shed light on the growing problem of illicit supply networks, or ISNs. These networks pose numerous risks to national security, human and environmental health and economic prosperity. According to researchers, established ISNs on the radar of law enforcement conduct activities such as trafficking cocaine,…