SHA 2024

The C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State University East Bay (CSUEB) invites you to take a seat at our table, opening yourself to observe and understand foodways practices across the Americas and to learn what you can do to get involved in food justice and food sovereignty efforts. This student-constructed exhibit brings together examples of Indigenous, Latinx, and industrial food practices from around California and the United States, past and present, with an eye toward equity and reparation. Please join us at the CSUEB Oakland Center campus, just across the street from the Oakland Marriott, on Friday, January 5 to engage our student docents and take part in hands-on activities. There you'll have the opportunity to exchange seeds at our traveling seed bank, produce foodways zines at our Foodways Zine Stop, observe and handle experimentally-produced adobe (mud-brick) ovens, discover what ails acorns while learning to grind them, and discuss migrant farmworkers’ rights. Free entry – and tamales! -- to the public with ID!

Directions for conference attendees: Walk across Broadway from the conference venue and enter the CSU East Bay Oakland Center through the 11th St. (weekend) entrance.

Directions for everyone else: The CSU East Bay Oakland Center is located at 1000 Broadway in Oakland, California (in the Trans-Pacific Center building). Local parking abounds, including street parking. Please check Parkopedia or SpotHero to locate a nearby garage or above ground lot.