Join the Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program for a conversation with world-renowned food writers and U-M alumni Joan Nathan, Ruth Reichl, and Ari Weinzweig. The three will be in conversation on Wednesday, April 2, discussing the rich cultural encounters they experienced as students in Ann Arbor and sharing how their time at U-M shaped their career trajectories. Reichl and Nathan were on campus in the 1960s and Weinzweig in the 1970s, critical and prolific decades when experimentation and innovation were being fostered from multiple vantage points through multiple senses, including taste! The conversation will explore how food and identity are tied together and how those ties have been experienced and explored by our special guests as students and in their careers.

Following the panel discussion, a reception will be held in the Apse with catering by Zingerman’s. This event is free and open to the public.

This event is presented by the U-M Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the U-M School of Social Work and is co-sponsored by the U-M Department for Student Life; the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; the U-M Department of History; and the U-M Department of American Culture.