{"title": "Homelands research seminar series: Scraps into Delicacies", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "food-drink/food-culture"], "description": "A research seminar titled \"Scraps into Delicacies: Sustainable and Cultural Food Practices of Diasporic Communities in London\", part of the Homelands research seminar series. It is run by Emily Falconer of the University of Westminster's School of Social Sciences together with Cavendish Living Lab community connectors Mariam Selim and Yumeng Yang, in partnership with the university's Centre for Social Justice Research. Drawing on focus groups with Korean, Caribbean, Italian, Chinese, Alevi and Jewish communities in London, it explores food practices that promote sustainability through low-waste cooking, preservation and adaptation, and argues that food is also a site of identity, belonging and exclusion in a global city. Attendees from outside the university are asked to reserve a spot by emailing the organisers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies-39998/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b46362028ab658f3f697265648b25fc60960aa4d871f82fa1b3fa9534e33e81b-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Adult Cook & Eat Classes", "start": "2026-11-06T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "place": "St Luke's Community Centre", "address": "Central Street 90, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking"], "description": "Adult Cook & Eat Classes - Book Online is a cooking class at St Luke's Cookery School, a fully-equipped cooking space with eight cooking stations, including one with full wheelchair access. 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It features Dr Lucas Lerchs, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and is chaired by Dr Giovanna Astolfo. The research explores how everyday inhabitation processes of ecological reserves are co-produced and transformed by conditions of socio-ecological marginalisation. The talk is followed by a 30-minute screening of a documentary filmed in the periphery of São Paulo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-ecologies-of-the-marginalised-everyday-socio-environment-45822/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/nov/ecologies-marginalised-everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-sao-paulos-peripheries", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ec19515a0463886a1ebdc80fa1315efd68c43c6fe0fd2f9e05e5e4a6ab9a36-600.webp"}, {"title": "Utopia", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bonnington Cafe", "address": "Vauxhall Grove 11, SW8 1TD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "food-drink", "tags": ["food-drink"], "description": "Utopia is an evening of Syrian cooking at a small café in Vauxhall. It is run by Hind, who came to London from Syria to find a new home and uses cooking to share her culture and create a place that feels like home. 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Sessions also welcome guest speakers and entertainers, with experts offering useful information and advice on topics such as health and estate planning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/luncheon-club-6-november-2026-76620/", "official_url": "https://theeca.org.uk/event/luncheon-club-7-november-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998637389233", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain' exploring what people leave behind and carry with them when they move to Britain. Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. 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