THURSDAY, 3/30/17
7:00-9:00pm | FREE DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING + Q&A SESSION WITH DIRECTOR
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center – “The Search for General Tso” (2014), 75 min., dir. Ian Cheney |
FRIDAY, 3/31/17
ALL CONFERENCE PANELS TO BE HELD AT UNIVERSITY ROOM, HYDE HALL
8:30-9:00am | Registration/continental breakfast for participants |
9:00-9:30am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
– Jonathan Hartlyn, Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Global Programs, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-CH – Peter Coclanis, Food for All Steering Committee / Director, Global Research Institute / Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor, History, UNC-CH – Michelle King, Conference Organizer, UNC-CH |
9:30-11:00am | Panel 1 – Writing and Unwriting the Culinary Nation
Chair: Inger Brodey, UNC-CH – Eric Rath, University of Kansas, “Writing an “International” Cuisine in Japan: Murai Gensai’s 1903 Culinary Novel Kuidōraku” – Michelle King, UNC-CH, “A Cookbook in Search of a Country: Fu Pei-mei and Chinese Culinary Nationalism” – Krishnendu Ray, New York University, “Rescuing Taste from the Nation” |
11:00-11:15am | Break |
11:15am-12:30pm | Keynote Address 1
– Introduction, James Farrer, Sophia University – Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Columbia University, “Centers and Peripheries: Culinary Countries in the 21st Century |
12:30-1:30pm | Lunch for panelists and invited guests |
1:30-3:30pm | Panel 2 – Cultivating Taste in the Culinary Nation
Chair: Emma Flatt, UNC-CH – Tatsuya Mitsuda, Keio University, “Imposing Confectionary Identities in Japan, 1890-1935” – Rachel Berger, Concordia University, “Fake Foods, Real Struggles: Culinary Nationalism in Interwar India” – Jia-chen Fu, Emory University, “Doujiang as Milk: Hybrid Modernity in Soybean Milk Advertisements” – Stephanie Assmann, Hokkaido University, “Promoting Culinary Heritage: The Food Education Campaign in Japan” |
3:30-3:45pm | Break |
3:45-5:45pm | Panel 3 – National Cuisines on the International Stage
Chair: Michael Tsin, UNC-CH – Yu-jen Chen (co-author), National Taiwan Normal University, and Pin-tsang Tseng (co-author), Academia Sinica, “Formation of “National Cuisine”: The Grand Hotel and State Banquets in Postwar Taiwan – Sana Ho, Soochow University, Taiwan, “Rice as Korean self: Globalizing Rice Cuisine as Korean Culinary Nationalism” – James Farrer, Sophia University, “Michelin Stars Over China: Culinary Nationalism and Culinary Cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s Fine Dining Sector” – Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University, “UNESCO and Gastronationalism in Japan and Korea” |
6:30pm | Dinner reception for panelists and invited guests |
SATURDAY, 4/1/17
ALL CONFERENCE PANELS TO BE HELD AT UNIVERSITY ROOM, HYDE HALL
8:30-9:00am | Continental breakfast for panelists |
9:00-10:30am | Panel 4 – Re-interpreting Culinary Traditions
Chair: Nancy Stalker, Univ. of Texas at Austin – Sidney Cheung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Redefining Regional Huaiyang Cuisine: From Spicy Crayfish to Country-style Dishes in China” – Gaik Cheng Khoo, University of Nottingham Malaysia, “Defining ‘Modern Malaysian’ Cuisine: Fusion or Ingredients?” – Satoko Kakihara, California State University, Fullerton, “Priestess of Sake: Woman as Producer in Natsuko’s Sake” |
10:30-10:45am | Break |
10:45am-12:00pm | Keynote Address 2
– Introduction, Sidney Cheung, Chinese University of Hong Kong – James Watson, Harvard University, “Culinary Nationalism: Asia and Beyond” |
12:00-1:00pm | Lunch for panelists and invited guests |
1:00-2:30pm | Panel 5 – Hunger, Violence, Nation
Chair: Iqbal Sevea, UNC-CH – Seung-joon Lee, National University of Singapore, “Revolution at the Canteen: Food and Labor Politics in Industrial China, 1910s-1950s” – Benjamin Siegel, Boston University, “The Common Hunger of the Country”: Indian Merchants and Markets in Plenty and Want” – Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside, “Eating to Live: Nourishing the Body and Feeding the Spirit in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang” |
2:30-2:45pm | Break |
2:45-4:15pm | Panel 6 – Transnational Culinary Imaginaries
Chair: Peter Coclanis, UNC-CH – (Withdrawn) Fan Yang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “A Bite of China and Transnational Chineseness” – Jean Duruz, University of South Australia, “Laksa Nation: Tastes of ‘Asian’ Belonging, Borrowed and Re-imagined” – Daniel E. Bender, University of Toronto Scarborough, “Drinking Scorpions at Trader Vic’s: Polynesian Parties, Caribbean Rum, Chinese Cooks and American Tourists” – Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto Scarborough, “Reading Food, Locating ‘National’ Cuisines” |
4:15-6:00pm | Closing roundtables |
6:30pm | Dinner reception for panelists and invited guests |