Join faculty, students and staff from different disciplines along with members of the public to explore a social justice issue. Refugee migration, truth and reconciliation, Covid-19 recovery—the topics change, but the approach remains the same: interdisciplinary, collaborative and meaningful.
IDP 2026: Food Matters
Launching in January, IDP 2026: Food Matters brings campus and community members together for shared meals, conversation and learning experiences that explore how food shapes our lives.
Over three gatherings, we will examine food as a site of connection, inequity and care through the following:
- community food stories (January)
- food, conflict and reconciliation (February)
- fasting and ceremony (March)
Food is a powerful lens through which we experience culture, identity and belonging. It shapes our health and preferences while grounding us in rituals, memories and sensory traditions. At the same time, food reveals deep inequities. Wealth disparities and systemic exclusions influence access to and practices around healthy, culturally meaningful and sustainable nourishment.
Yet food is also a powerful bridge. Across cultures, shared meals and food traditions open space for dialogue, understanding and reconciliation.
Join us as we explore how the many dimensions of food (re)shape our lives, communities and futures.
All educational forums are open to the public, providing an opportunity for meaningful discussions about local and global issues while connecting MacEwan to communities outside the university.
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IDP at a glance
The IDP uses a three-part format.
Faculty learning community
Open community events
Classroom and co-curricular learning
IDP-related online course: MacEwan students may formally participate in the Interdisciplinary Dialogue by registering in a course that is associated with the IDP or by signing up through the related online paskwâwi-mostos mêskanâs course.
IDP certificate: Students who attend a minimum of two educational forums and participate in the corresponding online discussions receive a formal project certificate of achievement.
Student research: Students are encouraged to present related research or creative works during Student Research Day. Those works are then published in the online Interdisciplinary Dialogue Proceedings via MacEwan Open Journals.
Student inquiries
Lindsey Whitson
IDP Co-Chair
whitsonl2@macewan.ca
Faculty, staff and public inquiries
Larysa Hayduk
IDP Co-Chair
haydukl@macewan.ca
Check out the topics we explored in past Interdisciplinary Dialogue Projects. Learn from the student work that was created each year.
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