Remember to reserve your hotel rooms.
The Radisson Hotel Market Square is offering a special conference rate of $99.00 plus taxes per night for single or double occupancy. You must contact them before Monday, January 28 in order to get this special conference rate.
For reservations at the Radisson Hotel Market Square call 1-800-333-3333, or (210) 224-7155 and let them know you are attending the UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Food Conference. You can also make your reservations on line at http://www.radisson.com/. The hotel’s electronic page can be seen at: www.radisson.com/sanantoniotx .
Food Drive
Students are holding a food drive in connection with the conference; your contribution in the form of non perishable food items will be appreciated. A collection box will be available at the registration site.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Conference Program
5th INTERDISCIPLINARY AND MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE ON
FOOD REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE, FILM
AND THE OTHER ARTS
February 21-23, 2008
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Program
Thursday, February 21
5:00 pm-7:00 pm ::: registration
6:30 pm. Aula Canaria ::: opening remarks
Dean Dan Gelo
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Professor Christopher Wickham
“An Introduction to Talking about Food”
Professor Sandra Gilbert ::: inaugural lecture
“‘All That Is Toothsome?’ : Sacred Food, Deadly Dining.”
7:30 pm ::: reception
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Film I ::: panel 1
Judith C. Rodríguez. University of North Florida
“Food and Film: An Analysis of Gender, Status, and Cultural Identity in
What’s Cooking?”
Roberta Di Carmine. Western Illinois University
“Food and Identity Politics: Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s Big
Night (1996)”
Richard Farmer. University of East Anglia
“‘The Honourable Company of Tea Drinkers’: Food, Film and Wartime
Britain”
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Identity ::: panel 2
Michelle Johnson Vela. Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Food as Cultural Signifier in the Literature and Music of U.S. Latinos”
Deborah Israel.
“Ingesting Adversity: Loss, Food, and Ethnic Identity”
Judy E. Perkin. University of North Florida
“The Writings of Erskine Caldwell: Food, Hunger, Nutrient Deficiency,
and Deep South Identity in the Era of the Great Depression”
Stephen Criswell. University of South Carolina
“‘It’s About Sweet Potato Pie’: Narrative Identity through Food in African
American Family Reunions”
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Latin America ::: panel 3
Miguel A. Niño. St. Edward’s University
“La comida en la conquista de México: La Malinche, de Laura Esquivel”
Alberto Ameal-Pérez. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Juana Manuela Gorriti: Ecléctica y transcultural”
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Women Views ::: panel 4
Kirsten Komara.
“The Dialectics of Food: Negotiating Social Bodies and Sexual Desire in Jane Eyre”
Lisa Angelella.
“‘Inwards of Dough’: Virginia Woolf’s Representation of Food and Female Subjectivity”
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Spanish Perspectives I ::: panel 5
María Jesús Muñoz Jiménez.
“Los caprichos de la literatura: el hambre de Lázaro”
Ana Fernández. SUNY Stony Brook
“Cervantes y El Quijote: la comida como descriptora y diferenciadora de
clases sociales”
Randolph D. Pope. University of Virginia
“Gender and National Representation of Spanish Cooking”
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Cooking a Path to Home and Self: Food, Longing, and Difference ::: panel 6
Organizer and Chair: Alice Julier. University of Pittsburgh.
Arlene Voski Avakian. University of Massachusetts-Amherst
“Baklava as Home: Exiles and Middle Eastern Cooking in Diana Abu-
Jaber’s Novel Crescent”
Ilona Baughman. Boston University
“‘A Touch of Spice’: Eating, Exile and Identity”
Julia C. Ehrhardt. University of Oklahoma Honors College
“Assimilation through Dieting: Thinness and Jewish American Female
Identity in Fannie Hurst’s Early Short Stories”
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Woman Parallels Watermelon (The Healing) ::: panel 7
Organizer and Chair: Van G. Garrett
Tony Gaines, Grady Carter, John Gaines, Shunshieva and V. G. Garrett
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Edible Ideologies I ::: panel 8
Organizer and Chair: Peter Naccarato. Marymount Manhattan College
Annette Cozzi. University of South Florida
“Men and Menus: Dickens and the Rise of the ‘Ordinary’ English
Gentleman”
Celia M Kingsbury. University of Central Missouri
“‘Food Will Win the War’: Food and Social Control in World War I
Propaganda”
Lynne Fallwell. Texas Tech University
“Eating the Enemy: American Tourists, German Food, and the Modern Guidebook”
:::
Friday, February 22
12:30 pm-2:00 pm ::: lunch break
:::
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Forms of Food ::: panel 9
Lawrence Schwegler. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Signs in the Restaurant Menu: Naturalness and Artificiality”
Ame Gilbert. New York University
“Story, Picture, Play: All on the Same Plate”
David Bieloh. Austin Peay State University
“Planned Obsolescence and the Design of Food Consumption”
Mariana Mogilevich. Harvard University
“The Masita Project: Geography and Esthetics of the Petit-Four”
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Edible Ideologies II ::: panel 10
Organizer and Chair: Peter Naccarato. Marymount Manhattan College
Charlene Elliot. Carleton University
“Consuming the Other: Packaged Representations of Foreignness in
President’s Choice”
Kathleen Banks Nutter. SUNY at Stony Brook
“From Romance to PMS: Images of Women and Chocolate in 20th Century
America”
Peter Naccarato. Marymount Manhattan College
“Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital”
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Literary Food ::: panel 11
Susanne Kimball. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“The Life of Pi: a Bi-polar Discussion about Food”
Cynthia Rostankowski. San Jose State University
“Chocolate Cake, Comfort and Understanding Love in Salley Vickers’
The Other Side of You”
Rebecca Brown
“‘The Camembert is Wonderful’: On Disruptive Dining in Elizabeth Taylor’s Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont”
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Reading Meals, Manners and Meaning ::: panel 12
Organizer and Chair: Alice Julier. University of Pittsburgh
Lucy M. Long. Bowling Green State University
“Moonshine, ’Possum and Cornbread: ‘Othering’ Appalachia Through its
Food”
Abby Wilkerson. George Washington University
“Eating Thinking Writing Self: Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable. Miracle in
a First Year Writing Seminar”
Alice P. Julier. University of Pittsburgh
“Meals and Manners in Black and White”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
Practical Matters: Teaching & Such ::: panel 13
Raquel Oxford. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Teaching Social Justice Through Thematic Units: Food Representation in Spanish Children’s Literature”
Heidi Oberholtzer Lee. Messiah College
“Approaches to Teaching Food in Literature and Film”
Marlowe Daly-Galeano. The University of Arizona
Like Water for How to Make Chocolate, or a Dialogue between 20th
Century Food Literature and Contemporary Cookbooks”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
Strife & Hunger ::: panel 14
Ewa Macura. Warsaw School of Social Psychology
“The Politics of Food in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow
Sun.”
Vicente Cano. Morehead State University
“Penuria y nutrición en Emigrantes, de Edward Rosset”
Graciela N.V. Corvalan. Webster University
“Del absurdo al grotesco en tres textos de Virgilio Piñeira (Cuba, 1912-
1974)”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
European Perspectives ::: panel 15
Meg Coyle. Allegheny College
“L’Uomo de Buon Gusto: The Rules of Eating for the 18th Century Italian
as Defined by Vincenzo Corrado and Carlo Goldoni”
Kevin Drzakowski. University of Wisconsin-Stout
“Hungry Are the Not Damned: Hunger as Divine in Dante’s Commedia”
Elena Gutierrez. Catholic University of America
“Consumo y caracterización en los personajes secundarios de Fortunata y
Jacinta”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
Performing Food ::: panel 16
Katarzyna Przyluska.
“The Seductive Power of Eucharistic Food: Flavor and Olfactory Strategies
in The Gospels of Childhood (Zar Theater, Poland) and Inside the Whale´s
Skeleton (Odin Theater, Denmark)”
Maria Park Bobroff. Guilford College
“Gluttonous Pleasures: Arlequin, Sentimentality and 18th Century French
Theater”
Howard S. Meltzer. Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
“Welcome to ‘StarBach’s”: Bach, the Coffee Cantata and Zimmerman’s Coffeehouse”
Friday, February 22
5:30 pm-6:15 pm ::: Special Session
Naomi Shihab Nye: A San Antonio Poet
Michelle Bonczek.
“Kingdom Between the Teeth: Food and Food Culture in the Poetry of
Naomi Shihab Nye,” followed by
Naomi Shihab Nye reading from her work.
Friday, February 22
6:30 pm-8:00 pm ::: poetry café
Wendy Barker (organizer)
Norma Cantú, Catherine Kasper, Bonnie Lyons, David Ray Vance
and featured reader: Sandra M. Gilbert
: : : :
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Spanish Perspectives II ::: panel 17
Jeffrey Oxford. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Rats and Other ‘Unedibles’: Survival in 20th Century Spain”
Eugene B. Hastings. Morehead State University
“Reflexiones sobre Bécquer y la comida en sus obras”
Ana María González.
“ ‘Al pan, pan y al vino, vino’: la última cena en el contexto literario de La Cristiada”
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Film II ::: panel 18
Gerald Duchovnay, Texas A&M University-Commerce
“Coming out of the Oven: What Do those Cakes and Pastries Hide?”
Barbara Blithe Ware. Keene State College
“ ‘Slice and Dice’--Culinary Delights and Visceral Vices: Pedro
Almodóvar’s Volver”
Matthew C. Stelly. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“The Role of Food and Seating Placement in Major Movies: A
Chronological Assessment”
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Classical World ::: panel 19
Merrianne Timko. Independent Scholar
“Ancient Rome and ‘La cuisine moderne’: Dining with Apicius and
Lucullus in the 19th Century”
Ippokrates Kantzios.
“Ithaca’s Wine and the Return of Odysseus”
Niki Holmes Kantzios. University of South Florida
“Food on the Floor: Edible Emblems in Roman Dining Room Mosaics”
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Alimentación, arte y literatura entre 1492 y 1615 ::: panel 20
Francisco Marcos Marín. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“La aparición de las plantas comestibles en el arte europeo”.
Amando de Miguel. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Visiting Professor
“Alimentación y sociedad en El Quijote”.
Santiago Daydí-Tolson. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Sabor y lengua autóctona en el Inca Garcilaso”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
At the Table, On the Table: Food, Etiquette & Sociability in the Western Mediterranean
& Spanish Netherlands, 1360-1660 ::: panel 21
Organizer and Chair: Beth M. Forrest. Boston University
April Najjaj. Greensboro College
“A ‘Mawlid’ Celebration in Muslim Granada: Festival and Food in the 14th Century”
Beth Forrest. Boston University
“‘The Woman is like the Melon’: Food and Etiquette in the Changing
World of Early Modern Spain”
Ken Albala. University of the Pacific
“Ludovicus Nonnius and the Elegance of Fish”
Kathleen M. Anderson. Central Michigan University
“Dining and Writing: Regional Food Poetry in 17th Century Provence”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
Edible Semiotics: Food as a Social Symbolic Act ::: panel 22
David Sabrio.
“‘Let Me Bring Thee Where Crabs Grow’: Food, The Tempest, and European Encounters with the Other”
Pam Wright.
“‘These Absurd Class Distinctions’: Food as Cultural (Dis)Connection in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party”
Marco Iñiguez Alba. Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Ritualized Cannibalism as a Response to Spanish Neo-liberalism in
Volver”
Roberto J Vela. Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Food for Surrealist Thought: Cracking Crabs and Other Hard Headed
Codes”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
The Discourse of Food in Late 19th Century Spain ::: panel 23
Luisa Elena Delgado. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
“‘Comiendo como Dios manda’: el adiestramiento de los placeres en Peñas arriba de
Pereda”
James Mandrell. Brandeis University
“Food as Character in Galdós’ Torquemada Novels”
Lou Charon-Deutsch. Stony Brook University
“A Foodie ‘al pie de la Torre Eiffel’”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
The Novel ::: panel 24
Patrick Kiley. Marian College
“The Architecture of Food in 19th Century French Literature”
Lisa Harris. University of British Columbia
“Representations of Food in Recent Canadian Writing”
Saturday, February 23
1:00 pm ::: Lunch Buffet
Conference Business Issues and Closing Remarks
This conference is made possible in part by a gift from H-E-B
FOOD REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE, FILM
AND THE OTHER ARTS
February 21-23, 2008
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Program
Thursday, February 21
5:00 pm-7:00 pm ::: registration
6:30 pm. Aula Canaria ::: opening remarks
Dean Dan Gelo
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Professor Christopher Wickham
“An Introduction to Talking about Food”
Professor Sandra Gilbert ::: inaugural lecture
“‘All That Is Toothsome?’ : Sacred Food, Deadly Dining.”
7:30 pm ::: reception
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Film I ::: panel 1
Judith C. Rodríguez. University of North Florida
“Food and Film: An Analysis of Gender, Status, and Cultural Identity in
What’s Cooking?”
Roberta Di Carmine. Western Illinois University
“Food and Identity Politics: Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s Big
Night (1996)”
Richard Farmer. University of East Anglia
“‘The Honourable Company of Tea Drinkers’: Food, Film and Wartime
Britain”
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Identity ::: panel 2
Michelle Johnson Vela. Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Food as Cultural Signifier in the Literature and Music of U.S. Latinos”
Deborah Israel.
“Ingesting Adversity: Loss, Food, and Ethnic Identity”
Judy E. Perkin. University of North Florida
“The Writings of Erskine Caldwell: Food, Hunger, Nutrient Deficiency,
and Deep South Identity in the Era of the Great Depression”
Stephen Criswell. University of South Carolina
“‘It’s About Sweet Potato Pie’: Narrative Identity through Food in African
American Family Reunions”
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Latin America ::: panel 3
Miguel A. Niño. St. Edward’s University
“La comida en la conquista de México: La Malinche, de Laura Esquivel”
Alberto Ameal-Pérez. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Juana Manuela Gorriti: Ecléctica y transcultural”
Friday, February 22
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session I
Women Views ::: panel 4
Kirsten Komara.
“The Dialectics of Food: Negotiating Social Bodies and Sexual Desire in Jane Eyre”
Lisa Angelella.
“‘Inwards of Dough’: Virginia Woolf’s Representation of Food and Female Subjectivity”
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Spanish Perspectives I ::: panel 5
María Jesús Muñoz Jiménez.
“Los caprichos de la literatura: el hambre de Lázaro”
Ana Fernández. SUNY Stony Brook
“Cervantes y El Quijote: la comida como descriptora y diferenciadora de
clases sociales”
Randolph D. Pope. University of Virginia
“Gender and National Representation of Spanish Cooking”
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Cooking a Path to Home and Self: Food, Longing, and Difference ::: panel 6
Organizer and Chair: Alice Julier. University of Pittsburgh.
Arlene Voski Avakian. University of Massachusetts-Amherst
“Baklava as Home: Exiles and Middle Eastern Cooking in Diana Abu-
Jaber’s Novel Crescent”
Ilona Baughman. Boston University
“‘A Touch of Spice’: Eating, Exile and Identity”
Julia C. Ehrhardt. University of Oklahoma Honors College
“Assimilation through Dieting: Thinness and Jewish American Female
Identity in Fannie Hurst’s Early Short Stories”
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Woman Parallels Watermelon (The Healing) ::: panel 7
Organizer and Chair: Van G. Garrett
Tony Gaines, Grady Carter, John Gaines, Shunshieva and V. G. Garrett
Friday, February 22
11:00 am-12:30 pm ::: session II
Edible Ideologies I ::: panel 8
Organizer and Chair: Peter Naccarato. Marymount Manhattan College
Annette Cozzi. University of South Florida
“Men and Menus: Dickens and the Rise of the ‘Ordinary’ English
Gentleman”
Celia M Kingsbury. University of Central Missouri
“‘Food Will Win the War’: Food and Social Control in World War I
Propaganda”
Lynne Fallwell. Texas Tech University
“Eating the Enemy: American Tourists, German Food, and the Modern Guidebook”
:::
Friday, February 22
12:30 pm-2:00 pm ::: lunch break
:::
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Forms of Food ::: panel 9
Lawrence Schwegler. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Signs in the Restaurant Menu: Naturalness and Artificiality”
Ame Gilbert. New York University
“Story, Picture, Play: All on the Same Plate”
David Bieloh. Austin Peay State University
“Planned Obsolescence and the Design of Food Consumption”
Mariana Mogilevich. Harvard University
“The Masita Project: Geography and Esthetics of the Petit-Four”
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Edible Ideologies II ::: panel 10
Organizer and Chair: Peter Naccarato. Marymount Manhattan College
Charlene Elliot. Carleton University
“Consuming the Other: Packaged Representations of Foreignness in
President’s Choice”
Kathleen Banks Nutter. SUNY at Stony Brook
“From Romance to PMS: Images of Women and Chocolate in 20th Century
America”
Peter Naccarato. Marymount Manhattan College
“Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital”
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Literary Food ::: panel 11
Susanne Kimball. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“The Life of Pi: a Bi-polar Discussion about Food”
Cynthia Rostankowski. San Jose State University
“Chocolate Cake, Comfort and Understanding Love in Salley Vickers’
The Other Side of You”
Rebecca Brown
“‘The Camembert is Wonderful’: On Disruptive Dining in Elizabeth Taylor’s Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont”
Friday, February 22
2:00 pm-3:30 pm ::: session III
Reading Meals, Manners and Meaning ::: panel 12
Organizer and Chair: Alice Julier. University of Pittsburgh
Lucy M. Long. Bowling Green State University
“Moonshine, ’Possum and Cornbread: ‘Othering’ Appalachia Through its
Food”
Abby Wilkerson. George Washington University
“Eating Thinking Writing Self: Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable. Miracle in
a First Year Writing Seminar”
Alice P. Julier. University of Pittsburgh
“Meals and Manners in Black and White”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
Practical Matters: Teaching & Such ::: panel 13
Raquel Oxford. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Teaching Social Justice Through Thematic Units: Food Representation in Spanish Children’s Literature”
Heidi Oberholtzer Lee. Messiah College
“Approaches to Teaching Food in Literature and Film”
Marlowe Daly-Galeano. The University of Arizona
Like Water for How to Make Chocolate, or a Dialogue between 20th
Century Food Literature and Contemporary Cookbooks”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
Strife & Hunger ::: panel 14
Ewa Macura. Warsaw School of Social Psychology
“The Politics of Food in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow
Sun.”
Vicente Cano. Morehead State University
“Penuria y nutrición en Emigrantes, de Edward Rosset”
Graciela N.V. Corvalan. Webster University
“Del absurdo al grotesco en tres textos de Virgilio Piñeira (Cuba, 1912-
1974)”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
European Perspectives ::: panel 15
Meg Coyle. Allegheny College
“L’Uomo de Buon Gusto: The Rules of Eating for the 18th Century Italian
as Defined by Vincenzo Corrado and Carlo Goldoni”
Kevin Drzakowski. University of Wisconsin-Stout
“Hungry Are the Not Damned: Hunger as Divine in Dante’s Commedia”
Elena Gutierrez. Catholic University of America
“Consumo y caracterización en los personajes secundarios de Fortunata y
Jacinta”
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm-5:30 pm ::: session IV
Performing Food ::: panel 16
Katarzyna Przyluska.
“The Seductive Power of Eucharistic Food: Flavor and Olfactory Strategies
in The Gospels of Childhood (Zar Theater, Poland) and Inside the Whale´s
Skeleton (Odin Theater, Denmark)”
Maria Park Bobroff. Guilford College
“Gluttonous Pleasures: Arlequin, Sentimentality and 18th Century French
Theater”
Howard S. Meltzer. Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
“Welcome to ‘StarBach’s”: Bach, the Coffee Cantata and Zimmerman’s Coffeehouse”
Friday, February 22
5:30 pm-6:15 pm ::: Special Session
Naomi Shihab Nye: A San Antonio Poet
Michelle Bonczek.
“Kingdom Between the Teeth: Food and Food Culture in the Poetry of
Naomi Shihab Nye,” followed by
Naomi Shihab Nye reading from her work.
Friday, February 22
6:30 pm-8:00 pm ::: poetry café
Wendy Barker (organizer)
Norma Cantú, Catherine Kasper, Bonnie Lyons, David Ray Vance
and featured reader: Sandra M. Gilbert
: : : :
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Spanish Perspectives II ::: panel 17
Jeffrey Oxford. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Rats and Other ‘Unedibles’: Survival in 20th Century Spain”
Eugene B. Hastings. Morehead State University
“Reflexiones sobre Bécquer y la comida en sus obras”
Ana María González.
“ ‘Al pan, pan y al vino, vino’: la última cena en el contexto literario de La Cristiada”
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Film II ::: panel 18
Gerald Duchovnay, Texas A&M University-Commerce
“Coming out of the Oven: What Do those Cakes and Pastries Hide?”
Barbara Blithe Ware. Keene State College
“ ‘Slice and Dice’--Culinary Delights and Visceral Vices: Pedro
Almodóvar’s Volver”
Matthew C. Stelly. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“The Role of Food and Seating Placement in Major Movies: A
Chronological Assessment”
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Classical World ::: panel 19
Merrianne Timko. Independent Scholar
“Ancient Rome and ‘La cuisine moderne’: Dining with Apicius and
Lucullus in the 19th Century”
Ippokrates Kantzios.
“Ithaca’s Wine and the Return of Odysseus”
Niki Holmes Kantzios. University of South Florida
“Food on the Floor: Edible Emblems in Roman Dining Room Mosaics”
Saturday, February 23
9:00 am-10:30 am ::: session V
Alimentación, arte y literatura entre 1492 y 1615 ::: panel 20
Francisco Marcos Marín. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“La aparición de las plantas comestibles en el arte europeo”.
Amando de Miguel. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Visiting Professor
“Alimentación y sociedad en El Quijote”.
Santiago Daydí-Tolson. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Sabor y lengua autóctona en el Inca Garcilaso”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
At the Table, On the Table: Food, Etiquette & Sociability in the Western Mediterranean
& Spanish Netherlands, 1360-1660 ::: panel 21
Organizer and Chair: Beth M. Forrest. Boston University
April Najjaj. Greensboro College
“A ‘Mawlid’ Celebration in Muslim Granada: Festival and Food in the 14th Century”
Beth Forrest. Boston University
“‘The Woman is like the Melon’: Food and Etiquette in the Changing
World of Early Modern Spain”
Ken Albala. University of the Pacific
“Ludovicus Nonnius and the Elegance of Fish”
Kathleen M. Anderson. Central Michigan University
“Dining and Writing: Regional Food Poetry in 17th Century Provence”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
Edible Semiotics: Food as a Social Symbolic Act ::: panel 22
David Sabrio.
“‘Let Me Bring Thee Where Crabs Grow’: Food, The Tempest, and European Encounters with the Other”
Pam Wright.
“‘These Absurd Class Distinctions’: Food as Cultural (Dis)Connection in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party”
Marco Iñiguez Alba. Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Ritualized Cannibalism as a Response to Spanish Neo-liberalism in
Volver”
Roberto J Vela. Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Food for Surrealist Thought: Cracking Crabs and Other Hard Headed
Codes”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
The Discourse of Food in Late 19th Century Spain ::: panel 23
Luisa Elena Delgado. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
“‘Comiendo como Dios manda’: el adiestramiento de los placeres en Peñas arriba de
Pereda”
James Mandrell. Brandeis University
“Food as Character in Galdós’ Torquemada Novels”
Lou Charon-Deutsch. Stony Brook University
“A Foodie ‘al pie de la Torre Eiffel’”
Saturday, February 23
11:00 am-1:00 pm ::: session VI
The Novel ::: panel 24
Patrick Kiley. Marian College
“The Architecture of Food in 19th Century French Literature”
Lisa Harris. University of British Columbia
“Representations of Food in Recent Canadian Writing”
Saturday, February 23
1:00 pm ::: Lunch Buffet
Conference Business Issues and Closing Remarks
This conference is made possible in part by a gift from H-E-B
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Origin of Chocolate
The enclosed link leads to a 1998 article on the archeological findings on the consumption of chocolate more than 3,000 years ago.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct98/chocolate.cacao.hrs.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct98/chocolate.cacao.hrs.html
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Food Publication
The following is a link to a literary magazine devoted to food fiction and poetry. http://www.alimentumjournal.com/contact.html
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Corrections to the program and delays
The Conference Program posted a few days ago it is only a draft. Some minor changes will be needed between now and the time in December when participants confirm their attendance.
For technical reasons we will be unable to post in the Web page of the conference the registration form until next week.
For technical reasons we will be unable to post in the Web page of the conference the registration form until next week.
Monday, October 29, 2007
For the Conference Participants
As you must have noticed, the program of the 5th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts has been posted in the previous entry at this, the Conference Blog. Please let us know if the information concerning your participation is incorrect. All participants in the Conference must be registered by Friday, December 14, 2007 to be included in the program. A printable registration form will be available at the Conference Web site, http://flan.utsa.edu/foodconf by Tuesday, November 6.
Your presentation should not exceed twenty minutes of reading time, as you will be part of a panel of three or four presenters and equal time will be allotted for each one.
If you will need audiovisual equipment for your presentation, do not forget to request it on the registration form.
The conference will start late afternoon on Thursday, February 21, and will continue until early afternoon on Saturday, February 23.
If you are interested in seeing your paper published in Convivium Artium, the conference electronic journal, please submit your manuscript electronically no later than March 14, 2008. The third issue of the journal shall be available on the web by the time of the conference.
The Radisson Hotel Market Square is offering a special conference rate of $99.00 plus taxes per night for single or double occupancy. You must contact them soon in order to get this special conference rate. San Antonio’s hotels are regularly booked many weeks in advance, and it will be difficult to find a reasonable rate later. For reservations at the Radisson Hotel Market Square call 1-800-333-3333, or (210) 224-7155 and let them know you are attending the UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Food Conference. You can also make your reservations on line at http://www.radisson.com/. The hotel’s electronic page can be seen at: www.radisson.com/sanantoniotx .
The Radisson Hotel Market Square is across from the UTSA Downtown Campus, where most conference activities are going to take place. You will have no need for transportation to attend the Conference and to visit the main attractions in downtown San Antonio. From the airport you can take a taxi or a SATrans airport shuttle.
If you need more information, please consult the Conference Web page, the Conference Blog or contact us by phone (210 458-5186), FAX (210 458-5672, e-mail (convivium@utsa.edu) or regular mail (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. The University of Texas at San Antonio. One UTSA Circle. San Antonio, TX 78249). We are looking forward to having you here in February, and to participate with us in what promises to be a most engaging intellectual meeting.
Santiago Daydi-Tolson
Conference Organizer
Your presentation should not exceed twenty minutes of reading time, as you will be part of a panel of three or four presenters and equal time will be allotted for each one.
If you will need audiovisual equipment for your presentation, do not forget to request it on the registration form.
The conference will start late afternoon on Thursday, February 21, and will continue until early afternoon on Saturday, February 23.
If you are interested in seeing your paper published in Convivium Artium, the conference electronic journal, please submit your manuscript electronically no later than March 14, 2008. The third issue of the journal shall be available on the web by the time of the conference.
The Radisson Hotel Market Square is offering a special conference rate of $99.00 plus taxes per night for single or double occupancy. You must contact them soon in order to get this special conference rate. San Antonio’s hotels are regularly booked many weeks in advance, and it will be difficult to find a reasonable rate later. For reservations at the Radisson Hotel Market Square call 1-800-333-3333, or (210) 224-7155 and let them know you are attending the UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Food Conference. You can also make your reservations on line at http://www.radisson.com/. The hotel’s electronic page can be seen at: www.radisson.com/sanantoniotx .
The Radisson Hotel Market Square is across from the UTSA Downtown Campus, where most conference activities are going to take place. You will have no need for transportation to attend the Conference and to visit the main attractions in downtown San Antonio. From the airport you can take a taxi or a SATrans airport shuttle.
If you need more information, please consult the Conference Web page, the Conference Blog or contact us by phone (210 458-5186), FAX (210 458-5672, e-mail (convivium@utsa.edu) or regular mail (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. The University of Texas at San Antonio. One UTSA Circle. San Antonio, TX 78249). We are looking forward to having you here in February, and to participate with us in what promises to be a most engaging intellectual meeting.
Santiago Daydi-Tolson
Conference Organizer
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Conference Highlights
The organization of the 5th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts has been going slowly but steadily. A full program shall be ready and posted here within a week.
At this moment we can announce that the main speaker at the conference inaugural session on Thursday evening, February 21, 2008, will be Professor Sandra Gilbert.
Professor Wendy Barker is preparing a program for the Poetry Cafe that will be open on Friday evening, with an offering of a variety of good poetic readings on food.
The conference will meet al day Friday, Februeary 22, and the morning of Saturday 23. More than seventy speakers will be presenting their research in relation to the artistic use of food by literary authors and filmakers from different countries and periods. From Classical Greece to contemporary film, papers will address the many different uses of food imagery and food themes as significant and aesthetic components of the work of art.
As in previous conferences, participants will have the opportunity to converse with specialists in fields other than their own but equally centered in food as a subject of study and critical discusion.
San Antonio's dowtown amenities, and in special restaurants, should satisfy most participants, as the conference will meet at the downtown campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio, across from the old Market and a few blocks away from the River Walk.
At this moment we can announce that the main speaker at the conference inaugural session on Thursday evening, February 21, 2008, will be Professor Sandra Gilbert.
Professor Wendy Barker is preparing a program for the Poetry Cafe that will be open on Friday evening, with an offering of a variety of good poetic readings on food.
The conference will meet al day Friday, Februeary 22, and the morning of Saturday 23. More than seventy speakers will be presenting their research in relation to the artistic use of food by literary authors and filmakers from different countries and periods. From Classical Greece to contemporary film, papers will address the many different uses of food imagery and food themes as significant and aesthetic components of the work of art.
As in previous conferences, participants will have the opportunity to converse with specialists in fields other than their own but equally centered in food as a subject of study and critical discusion.
San Antonio's dowtown amenities, and in special restaurants, should satisfy most participants, as the conference will meet at the downtown campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio, across from the old Market and a few blocks away from the River Walk.
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