CityFood NYC: Street Vendor Conference

“CityFood, NYC” is about how street foods feed a city -- socially, culturally, and politically. This afternoon of events will engage with current issues, imagining how future research and developing technologies could be harnessed to increase the beneficial impact of street vendors on the city and vice versa.

“CityFood, NYC” celebrates the diversity of street food across New York City by bringing the street foods themselves into the conference space through four sessions:

3:00 - 4:00 -- Keynote address by Alfonso Morales, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin

4:00 - 5:00 -- Screening of documentary films by Sarah K Khan (sarahkkhan.com)

5:00 - 6:00 -- Panel I, “Street Food and Media: Representations of Street Foods and Street Vendors,” is a discussion of the role of media and ethnography in understanding street food and food vendors, with Jack Tchen, Sarah Khan, and Dave Cook.

6:00 - 7:00 -- Panel II, “A Right to the City: How Public Policy Shapes the Lives and Livelihoods of Street Food Vendors,” is a discussion focused on the current political challenges facing street vendor communities and immigrant street vendors in NYC, with Barbara Turk, Sean Basinski, Joseph Heathcott, and Heather Lee

The “CityFood, NYC” is the result of a collaborative effort between the NYU Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at Steinhardt and the Institute for Public Knowledge.

Refreshments and street foods will be served!

This event is free and open to the public. You will have to show a valid photo ID to enter the building at 20 Cooper Sq. (e.g. NYC ID, driver's license, student ID, etc.)

Contact CityFoodSymposium@nyu.edu with any questions or comments.