| DATE: | Sunday, November 8, 2009 |
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| TIME: | 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM |
| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House |
| FORMAT: | Panel discussion |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Japanese Studies |
The History and Contemporary Forms of Japanese Food Culture
9:00 am Welcome Remarks
9:15 am - 12:15 pm Panel Session
Eric Rath, Univ. of Kansas, author of Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan
“Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan”
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Univ., author of Asian Food: The Global and Local and Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power, and National Identity
“Legal and Illegal Dining in 1940s Japan”
Jordan Sand, Georgetown Univ., author of “A Short History of MSG”
“Japanese Hybrid Gastronomy at the Beginning and End of the 20th Century: ‘The Gourmet’s Delight’ and ‘Iron Chef’”
Tomoko Aoyama, Univ. of Queensland, author of Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
“Food and Gender in Yoshinaga Fumi’s Manga”
Gavin Whitelaw, ICU, author of At Your Conbini
“Convenient Cuisine”
