MICA presents a public lecture by Pittsburgh-based artists and Conflict Kitchen co-founders and co-directors Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski as part of this year’s Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designers-in- Residence.

The public lecture will take place Wednesday, April 19, 7 p.m., at Falvey Hall, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mt. Royal Ave.

Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant that serves cuisines from countries currently in diplomatic or armed conflict with the United States. Using the social relations of food and eating as a means of understanding, Conflict Kitchen engages the public beyond polarizing political rhetoric to encourage cultural exchange and dialogue. The restaurant’s design identity and menu rotates regularly in relation to changing geopolitical events.

Most recently, the project served traditional cuisine from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, which is a league of six indigenous nations located primarily in upstate New York and western Pennsylvania. Past examples of food cultures served by Conflict Kitchen include Iranian, Afghan, Venezuelan, North Korean and Palestinian.