17th Annual Harlem Genealogical Conference

360 Malcolm X Blvd,New York NY 10027

07 May, 2022

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Discovering Your Family Roots Through Food Culture 12:30 pm Opening Remarks Welcome: Colin Cropper, President of The New York, NY StakeWelcome: AAHGS President or First VP"Sister Act" from Sister Act, performed by Oyoyo Joi, (MJ, Memphis, Once on This Island)Session 1) 1:00-1:50 pm Workshops Track A: Intro to Genealogical Research Genealogical Research using FamilySearch.org (in person and zoom)Ken and Sue Mortensen Ken recently retired from a career in computer system software. He has ancestors that emigrated from Denmark and the UK. Sue recently retired as a paralegal at the Department of Justice. She continues extending research on her family lines in Missouri and Virginia. Ken and Sue volunteer two days a week in the Family History Center in the Lincoln Center building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have four grown children whose families live in four different states. Track B : Tell Your Family Story Through a Family Cookbook (in person)Rebecca Gilmore 2:00-3:00 pm Keynote - Scott Barton, Phd (in person and zoom) Scott Alves Barton holds a Ph.D. in Food Studies from New York University and is a faculty fellow in Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame. He had a 25-year career as an executive chef and culinary educator. Ebony magazine named him one of the top 25 African American/Diaspora chefs. His research and publications focus on women’s knowledge, the intersection of secular and sacred cuisine as a marker of identity politics, cultural heritage, political resistance, and self-determination in Northeastern Brazil. Recent publications include “Radical Moves from the Margins: Enslaved Entertainments as Harvest Celebration in Northeastern Brazil,” in The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots, “Food and Faith,” in Bryant Terry’s Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from the African Diaspora. His exhibition, Buried in the Heart: A Repast for Angels and Martyrs focusing on anti-black violence, funerary foods and African Diaspora ancestral worship opened in January at Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee as part of his ongoing Call & Response residency as public scholar. Barton’s previous residencies include Juba/Sanctuary, honoring the beginning of enslavement, 1619-2019. Barton is currently writing a companion manuscript for this exhibition, Reckoning with Violence and Black Death: Repasts as Community Ritual. Scott has been a fellow at Instituto Tepoztlán, Vanderbilt’s Issues in Critical Investigation, Fundação Palmares, and has served as a board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Scott is a board member of The Association for the Study of Food and Society, Secretary/Treasurer of The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Co-Chair of the African Diaspora Religions Unit within the American Academy of Religion, and a board member of The Indigo Diaspora Arts Alliance. Scott has been working as a curriculum consultant to the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, N.Y., and the Center for Culinary Development. Session 2) 3:10-4:00 pm Workshops Track A: Introduction to Genetic Genealogy-DNA (in person and zoom)Track B: History of Harlem's Food Culture (in person)Stacey Bell 4:00-5:30 pm Closing Reception