Program
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
4:15 pm Welcome: Dan Bender, Simone Cinotto, Hasia Diner, Krishnendu Ray
4:30 pm Peliti’s Vermut, A Case in Food Mobilities
4:40 pm MoG-WFCM students, Cuisine Flows Infographic Project
4:50 pm Edward Mukiibi (Slow Food International), The Mobility of Coffee Varieties in East Africa and Sustainable Development
5:00 pm Plenary: Donna Gabaccia, Global Cities, Local Foods: The Challenge of the National
Thursday, June 6, 2019
9:30 am Welcome Remarks: Rector Andrea Pieroni
9:45 am Opening Remarks: Dan Bender, Simone Cinotto, Hasia Diner, Krishnendu Ray
10:00 am Guest speaker: Stefano Liberti
10:20 am Presidential Address: President Carlo Petrini
10:45 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Session 1 – Craft, Ingredients, and Commodities
Discussant: Dan Bender
Jeffrey Pilcher – The Globalization of Craft Beer
Sarah Elton – Bitter Melon and Bottle Gourd: Growing Urban Food Sovereignty in the Diaspora at the Time of the Anthropocene
Carl Ipsen – From Cloth Oil to Extra Virgin: The Changing Meaning of Italian Olive Oil in Recent Centuries
2:30 pm Session 2 – Cuisines, Taste, and the Senses
Discussant: Krishnendu Ray
Daniel Bender, How to Write an Around-the-World Cookbook: Myra Waldo and Post-World War II American Fascination with Non-Western Cuisine
Nicola Perullo, Haptic Taste as an Ecological Task: A Proposal for a Glocally Engaged Perception
Signe Rousseau, Food Representations on the Move
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm Session 3 – Imperial Mobilities
Discussant: Donna R. Gabaccia
Kathleen Burke, Gendered and Classed Mobilities at the Dutch Colonial Table
Lisa Haushofer, Out of Place: Mobile Food and Nutritional Theories in mid-19th Century Britain
Jayeeta Sharma, Global and Local Tea Mobilities: Borderlands, Empires, Post-Colonial Alternatives
Simone Cinotto, Fascist Coffee, Imperial Bananas: Economies, Practices, and Imaginaries of Food in Italian East Africa
Friday, June 7, 2019
9:30 am Session 4 – Nation, Diaspora, Nostalgia
Discussant: Hasia Diner
Sandra Mendiola-Garcia, Miners’ Pastes: From Cornwall to Mexico
Ina Vandebroek, Transnational Journeys and Cultural Heritage: The Caribbean Food-Medicine Nexus
Heather R. Lee, Making Trayf Safe: Conflict and Resolution between Jews and Chinese in Turn of the Century New York
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:15 am Session 5 – Urban/Rural Foodscapes
Discussant: Jeffrey Pilcher
Krishnendu Ray, Rethinking Street Food: Delhi
Jennifer Shutek, Unpacking Sabich: The Migrations of an Iraqi Shabbat Dish
Elizabeth Hull, How Mobility and Immobility Is Shaping South Africa’s Food Retail Landscape
2:30 pm Session 6 – Labor and Migrant Economies
Discussant: Simone Cinotto
Hasia Diner, Foodscapes and Streetscapes: Urban Life and Immigrant Merchants in America
Koby Song-Nichols, How to Save Sweet and Sour: Chinese Canadian Restaurateurs and the Fight for Toronto’s Chinatown
Maria Giovanna Onorati, Gastronomy as a Field of Social Inclusion for People on Forced Mobility
Saturday, June 8, 2019
9:30 am Round Table on Digital and Publications (with Jeffrey Newman)