Eating

About this event

We are what we eat – Nutrition evokes deep disparities in relation to agricultural production, access to, and quality of food. Eating becomes a matter of justice and responsibility, but also of identity and cultivation of lifestyles in relation to nature supported by diverse worldviews.

Eating as Being: Reflections on The Environmental Centrality of Food in Indian Thought

This seminar will address the idea of food or annam as central to the human existence as “being human.” Drawing from the intellectual traditions of India, this discussion will explore the relationship between the human, the environment, and food. Food transforms into the body of the human through the act of consumption. The act of cooking is central to calibrating natural food to human appropriateness called Samya. Besides the sacrality of the food, the act of Paaka or cooking also makes food and eating uniquely human. We will explore the theories of cooking, drawing from the everyday practices of the richness of Indian cooking and cuisine and its relationship to a philosophy of being.

	When	28 September 2022 15:00-16:00 CEST
	Where	Online
	What	Webinar
	Language	English

Speakers

Meera Baindur

India
Professor of Philosophy, Globethics.net Academy Interreligious Cooperation for Peace (IRCP) course instructor and developer and Global Pool of Experts member.

Dr Meera Baindur is a philosopher with a wide-ranging area of interest in Indian philosophy and environmental humanities. She is program head for Philosophy and India studies in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at RV University Bangalore. She is also one of the Globethics Pool of experts and has been an instructor for the Interreligious Cooperation for Peace course offered by Globethics for the past few years. She volunteers with a philosophy collective called Barefoot Philosophers that aims to bring philosophy to the public space.

Dr Meera Baindur holds a doctoral degree in the interdisciplinary area of environmental philosophy. Currently, her research focusses on lived concepts of Indian philosophy including place, aesthetics, decoloniality, ecofeminism, and gender issues. She has worked as a teacher for many years in universities in India. She loves teaching and interacting with students. She likes to think of herself as talkative, warm, and friendly, and has many hobbies such as journaling, reading, knitting and gardening.

Learn more by reading Meera Baindur's In the Spotlight interview.