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“Tasting Culture”
October 12, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tasting Culture: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Food Across the Humanities
Registration is required to attend.
Thursday, October 12 in Room 266, Everson Hall
9:30 am // Opening Remarks
10:00 am – 12:00 pm // Morning Session
Elizabeth Pérez (UC Santa Barbara), “When the Gut Is a God: Food & the Stomach’s Sacrality in Afro- Diasporic Religions”
Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis), “Gastronomic Double Entendres in Cuban Popular Music”
Robin Derby (UCLA), “Consuming Struggles: Male Hunger and the Body Politic in Cuba”
12:00 pm // Lunch
1:00–3:00 pm // Afternoon Session I
Alison Krögel (U of Denver), “Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: Quechua Poetry & Food Landscapes”
Daniela Gutiérrez Flores (UC Davis), “The Sounds and Colors of Chocolate: Food, Rhythm and Race in 17th c. Spain”
Santiago Eslava Bejarano (UC Davis), “Meat in Paradise? Animal Consumption in Lope de Rueda’s Land of Jauja”
3:00–3:30 pm // Coffee Break
3:30–5:30 pm // Afternoon Session II
Alex Rossi (UC Davis), “Comida Do Mar: Themes of Food and the Ocean in Capoeira Lyrics”
Sean Williams (Evergreen State College), “The Presence of Absence: Song, Food, and Longing”
Mark Laver (Grinnell College), “Dinner Jazz: Consumption, Improvisation, and the Politics of Listening”
Friday, October 13 in Room 115, Music Building
10:00 am – 12:00 pm // Final Session
Meredith Abarca (UT El Paso), “El Paso Food Voices: Maintaining Intimate Culinary Heritage”
Jenniffer Sherill (UC Davis), “Around Aai’s Table: Food and Music as Indices of Home in the Diasporic Indian Kitchen”
Sara de Blas Hernández (UC Davis), “Building Community Through Recipe Sharing: Gender and Culinary Knowledge in Libro de apuntaciones de guisos y dulces (c. 1740)”
12:00–12:30 pm // Closing Remarks
