WCD conference 2025 – Disrupting the Field of Nutrition and Dietetics: A Call to Action

13th International World Critical Dietetics Virtual Conference, February 14-16, 2025

Registration Details coming soon!

World Critical Dietetics originated as a social movement in June 2009 and while it is
primarily located in dietetics, it is also embracing multiple disciplines and perspectives,
located in and outside of health professions and the academy. World Critical Dietetics has
previously convened conferences in Canada, United States, Australia, England, and Spain.
Our 13th International Conference will take place virtually via Zoom.

The conference will be situated in the body of literature created through the Journal of
Critical Dietetics. The theme is disrupting the field of nutrition and dietetics: a call to
action. We need to challenge the outdated, sometimes harmful, practices and beliefs to
make room for new ways of understanding, practicing, and educating.

This conference will spark critical conversations about novel ways to take action to disrupt
the field of nutrition and dietetics. Central to the mission of Critical Dietetics is social
justice, and the specific focus of this conference is to discuss taking action to catalyze
changes within the field of nutrition and dietetics related to equity, diversity and inclusion.

This conference will be a space for all those interested in challenging traditionally
unchallenged ways of knowing and doing in nutrition and dietetics to promote diversity,
equity, inclusion, and social justice. We look forward to presentations, panels, workshops
including, but not limited to the following topic areas:

• Rights-based approaches to health
• Intersections of civil rights and critical dietetics/critical food studies
• Queer perspectives on food, nutrition and dietetics
• Journal writing and editing with a focus on critical dietetics as a social health movement
• Gatekeeping of Western-dominated food, nutrition and dietetic education and research
• Addressing concerns regarding environmental justice, agricultural practices, workers’
  rights, and water/air/land protections
• Promoting Indigenous ways of knowing in dietetics and nutrition
• Engaging in social justice struggles for food security and food sovereignty
• Providing socially-just health care, food service, and working conditions for
  incarcerated populations and the criminal justice system
• Exploration of critical dietetics in relation to other rights based and equity movements
  including BLM, INM, #MeToo, #NeverAgain, #TimesUp
• Student and practitioner experiences of promoting diversity, redressing inequity, or
  seeking social justice
• Student and practitioner experiences of speaking and practicing from their own
  disenfranchised positions
• Raising issues regarding race, poverty, and justice in the media, including social media
• Arts-based or arts-informed inquiry on social justice in nutrition and dietetics
• Educating dietetic students in preparation for activism and advocacy
• Working with equity-seeking individuals or groups towards enhancing nutritional health
  status
• Explorations of power and equity in food and nutrition pedagogy, praxis, and politics