'You Are What You Eat鈥: Food and Identity From The Middle Ages to the Modern
糖心TV Food History Conference, 2021
Organisers: Maria Reyes Bazt谩n, Serin Quinn, and Louise Morgan
Click to register! This event is free, but registration is required as places are limited. For any questions please write to foodhistory@warwick.ac.uk.
SCHEDULE
(All times British Summer Time (BST))
DAY ONE – THURSDAY 17TH JUNE 2021
9:00am MS Teams room open
9:10-9:30 OPENING REMARKS
Professor Beat K眉min, University of 糖心TV
9:30 – 10:45 PANEL ONE – Body, Soul, and Community: Food, Drink, and Religion in Pre-Modern Europe
Are You Really What You Eat? Eating and Morality in Last Supper Sculpture in Twelfth-Century France
Mazi Kuzi, Tel Aviv University
鈥業 saw Jesus Christ at a London Inn, and he told me: Do not eat so much鈥--Gluttony, Mental Intoxication and Spiritual Fasting in the Manuscripts of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
Vincent Roy-Di Piazza, University of Oxford
'Streetlookers' and Confiscated Pails: Wells and the Construction of Community in Early Modern England.
Daniel Gettings, University of 糖心TV
11:00-12:15 PANEL TWO – Nourishing Change: Modern Food Reformer Movements
Reproductive Diet of a Brahmachari: Celibacy, Nutrition, and Caste in Late Colonial Western India
Shrikant Botre, University of 糖心TV
Gendering Food Reform: Women鈥檚 Realities of Food Activism in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Oihane Etayo, University of 糖心TV
Kneading a New Society: Bread and Socio-cultural Critique of the Dutch Alternative Food Movement (1968-1984)
Amber Striekwold, KU Leuven
13:15-14:30 PANEL THREE – Eating Across Divides: Food at the Borders of Trade, Diplomacy, and Community
Feasting and Fasting: Banquets in Diplomatic Exchanges Between Poland-Lithuania and Muscovy in the Late Seventeenth Century
Ewelina Sikora, Central European University
Negotiating Identities of Foreign Traders: Consumption of Curry in the Early Nineteenth-Century Canton
Leiyun Ni, University of 糖心TV
Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Meats and Body Politics
Ricardo Aguilar-Gonz谩lez, University of 糖心TV
14:45-16:25 PANEL FOUR – Global Drinks on a Local Perspective: Tea, Coffee, Sherbet, and Saloop
The Chimney Sweep鈥檚 Friend: How London's Labouring Poor Came to Define Saloop
Freya Purcell, V&A/RCA
We drink, therefore we are: Relationship Between Identities and Beverage Consumption throughout the Ottoman Empire
Onur Daylan, Independent Scholar
Early Modern Visual Representations of Tea and Coffee Drinking
Nicole Bianchini, University of S茫o Paulo
A Biography of Sweet Tea Culture in Lhasa from the Perspective of Dietary Anthropology
Huang Shuxia, Sichuan University
DAY TWO – FRIDAY 18TH JUNE 2021
9:00-9:15 MS Teams Room Open and Welcome
9:15-11:00 PANEL FIVE – Sexualising and Gendering Food from the Early Modern to the Modern
Food, drink and sexual education in Mirabeau鈥檚 Le Rideau lev茅, ou L鈥橢ducation de Laure (The Lifted Curtain, or Laure鈥檚 Education) (1786)
Catherine Ellis, Independent Scholar
Words, images and鈥ction: Forms of masculine representation in the illustrated 鈥榗ookstrips鈥 of Len Deighton鈥檚 Action Cookbook (1965)
Lorna Sheppard, University of Portsmouth
鈥楳anliness鈥 and 鈥楤eastliness鈥: Masculinity, Sexuality and Food in Early Twentieth-Century Public School Fiction
Sasha Garwood, University of Nottingham
鈥榃ith Good Brandy Their Noddles are Soakt:鈥 Gendered Depictions of Brandy Drinking in Early Modern England
Tyler Rainford, University of Bristol
11:15-12:30 PANEL SIX – Food, the Final Frontier: Consuming Colonialism
鈥楤looming Bananas'- Britain, Britishness and Brand Banana
Mary Irwin & Ana Tominc, Queen Margaret University
Cook and Coconuts; Culinary experiences in the Pacific during the Age of Exploration
Samuel Limby, Trinity College Dublin
A Pinch of Salt: Interrogating the Politics of Salt in Modern India
Sonakshi Srivastava, Indraprastha University
13:30-14:45 PANEL SEVEN – The Global Politics of Patriotism: Food, Drink, and the Nation
Traditional Beer for the Modern Townsman: Contestations around Municipal 鈥楢frican Beer鈥 in Late Colonial Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Maurice Hutton, University of Nottingham
The last cry of nineteenth-century famine in Ireland and echoes of India: the politics of food supply in 1897-8
Noel Carolan, Dublin City University
From 鈥淪anitation鈥 to 鈥淯ncleanliness鈥: The Changing Culture of Soda Water in Modern Shanghai
Haoran Ni, University of Kansas
15:00-16:00 KEYNOTE: The Global Invention of Pilsner Beer
Professor Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto
