UPCOMING EVENTS
UPDATE:
Thursday, November 8, 4:00 pm (Mitchell Hall 101)
“Indian Ocean Cuisine? On the Limits of National Cultures,” Krishnendu Ray, Associate Professor of Food Studies and Chair of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health, New York University
Monday, November 12, 4:00 pm (DSH 125)
Denis Belliveau "In the Footsteps of Marco Polo"
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO captures the pair as they survive a deadly firefight and befriend a warlord in Afghanistan, cross the forbidding Taklamakan Desert in a Silk Road camel caravan, endure continuous interrogations from authorities, and live among cultures ranging from the expert horsemen of Mongolia to the tattooed tribes of Indonesia.
International Studies Institute
College of Arts & Sciences, UNM
Fall 2012 Lecture Series
Food & Culture around the Globe
October 29 – November 2
Five days of lectures free and open to the public.
All lectures will be held in Dane Smith Hall (DSH) on the
UNM Main Campus in Albuquerque.
Monday, October 29, 12:00 pm (DSH 123)
“Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World,” Melissa Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Multi-Campus Research Program on Studies of Food and the Body, University of California Santa Cruz
Tuesday, October 30, 5:00 pm (DSH 125)
“Indian Ocean Cuisine? On the Limits of National Cultures,” Krishnendu Ray, Associate Professor of Food Studies and Chair of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health, New York University
Wednesday, October 31, 12:00 pm (DSH 123)
“Cannabis and/as Food: Excavating Food–Medicine–Drug Linkages in the Atlantic World,” Chris Duvall, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of New Mexico
Thursday, November 1, 5:00 pm (DSH 229)
“Belize and the Globalization of Food in the 19th Century,” Richard Wilk, Provost’s Professor of Anthropology and Program Director for Food Studies, Indiana University
Friday, November 2, 12:00 pm (DSH 125)
“Food and Nationalism in Japanese Food Comics,” Lorie Brau, Associate Professor of Japanese and Program Director for Asian Studies, University of New Mexico
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Melissa Caldwell is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Multi-Campus Research Program on Studies of Food and the Body at the University of California Santa Cruz. She regularly teaches courses on poverty and inequality; social justice; international development; anthropology of food; consumption; and memory and trauma. Her research interests are: daily life in postsocialist Europe; ethnography of Russia; changing social welfare systems, care work, ethics and practices of compassion; interfaith collaborations and faith-based assistance’ changing food practices in late and postsocialist societies; nature, leisure, and the world of summer cottages and gardening; new modes of human rights and anti-discrimination practices in Russia; Russian-African relations. Recent book publications include Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside (University of California Press, 2011), Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World (Indiana University Press, 2009), and Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia (University of California Press, 2004).
Dr.Krishnendu Ray received his Ph.D. in Sociology from SUNY Binghamton in 2001. He also holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Delhi University, India. Prior to joining the NYU faculty in 2005, Krishnendu was a faculty member and an Associate Dean for Curriculum Development at The Culinary Institute of America. A food studies scholar, he is the author of The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households (Temple University, 2004), as well as several chapters such as "Exotic Restaurants and Expatriate Home Cooking" in David Inglis and Debra Gimlin, eds., The Globalization of Food (Oxford: Berg, 2009) and numerous journal articles. His most recent co-edited book is Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (University of California Press, 2012). He is currently working on his next book-length project tentatively titled Taste, Toil and Ethnicity: Immigrant Restaurateur and the American City. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Food, Culture & Society.
Dr. Chris Duvall is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of New Mexico. A human-environment geographer with a broad range of interests, he studies how humans help create different environments, both intentionally and unintentionally. His work, most of which has focused on Africans and Africa, centers around three issues: How do humans classify the things we experience in landscapes? How do human activities create environments? How do humans study and depict environments? He earned his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Previously, he earned his M.S.in Environmental Science at San José State University and his B.A. in History at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Dr. Richard Wilk is Provost's Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University where he directs the Food Studies Program. With a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, he has taught at the University of California Berkeley, University of California Santa Cruz, New Mexico State University, and University College London, and has held fellowships at Gothenburg University and the University of London. His research in Belize, Europe, the USA and West Africa has been supported by three Fulbright fellowships, grants from the National Science Foundation and many other organizations. He has also worked as an applied anthropologist with UNICEF, USAID, USDA, Cultural Survival and other development organizations. Most recently he has testified in several important Indian land tenure cases in the Belize Supreme Court. His initial research on the cultural ecology of farming and family organization was followed by work on consumer culture and sustainable consumption, energy consumption, globalization, television, beauty pageants and food. Much of his recent work has turned towards the history of food, the linkages between tourism and sustainable development, and the origin of modern masculinity. His publications include more than 140 papers and book chapters, a textbook in Economic Anthropology, and several edited volumes, The most recent book is Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places edited with Livia Barbosa.
Dr.Lorie Brau is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of New Mexico. She also serves as the Program Director for Asian Studies. Her research interests include folklore, food and culture, and the theatre, traditional music, and popular culture of Japan. She is presently researching food in Japanese popular culture for a book on Japanese culinary comic books (manga). Her previous book, Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo.was published by Lexington Books in 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University, an M.A. in Japanese Literature from University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Ethnomusicology from Radcliffe/Harvard University.
Lecture Series Co-Sponsors (as of 10/26/12): Anthropology, Feminist Research Institute, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Geography & Environmental Studies, History, Latin American & Iberian Institute, National Security Studies Program, Office of the Provost.
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