European Summer School in Cultural Studies
London, 26th-31st July, 2010
The Cultures of Food, Eating and Cooking
Monday 26th July
Writing Food
10.00-11.30 Introductory Remarks and Plenary Lecture 1
Carsten Meiner: Literary Food: Reflections on the Historical Functionality of the Meal in Rabelais, Shakespeare, Goethe and Flaubert
11.30-11.45 COFFEE
11.45-13.45 Eating Your Words: Paper Session IA
Anastasia Gremm: Eating and Appetite in Contemporary Literature for Children and Young Adults
Uwe Mayer: Bites of Presence and a Mouthful of Meaning: The Literary Representation of Food and its Cultural Implications
Else Sauge Torpe: Reading Cookbooks
11.45-13.45 Eating Your Words: Paper Session IB
Christina Mohr: Making Well-Fed Westerners Starve – An Experientialist Analysis of Herta Mueller’s Everything I Possess I Carry With Me (2009)
Hanna Mäkelä: 'Mimetic Disorder': Eating and Imitation in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved
Martina Kopf: Mountain Food: Eating Between Nature and Culture in 20th Century Literature
13.45-15.00 LUNCH
15.00-16.20 Eating Your Words: Paper Session 2A
João Borges da Cunha: The Kosher Law in Philip Roth’s Early Fiction: Food Rules and Food Transgression in the Experience of the Masculinity Growth Process
Jutta Weingarten: Hitting the Glass Ceiling: The Queens of Govan (2000) as a Feminist Perspective on the Functions of Food in Contemporary British Asian Fiction
15.00-16.20 Eating Your Words: Paper Session 2B
Maciej Maryl: Reading with a Stomach: Literary Recipes and the Experience of Fiction
Marija Sruk: Muselmann. Eating and Starving in Holocaust Fictional Film and Literature
Tuesday 27th July
Culinary Cultures
10.00-11.15 Plenary Lecture 2
Ansgar Nuenning: Gastronomic Chauvenism: Food, Patriotic Xenophobia and the Study of Eighteenth-Century British Culture
11.15-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-14.10 Culinary Cultures: Paper Session 1A
Bahar Emgin: Greco-Turkish Food Wars: Constructing National Identities through Culinary Cultures
Anna Rettberg: The Chutneyfication of Englishness: Food, Eating and Cooking as Symbols for Challenging National Identity in Contemporary (Black) British Literature
Melanie Schiller: Never Mind the Krauts, Here’s the Potatoes
Kiki Jeanson: Culinary Culture of Dutch-Indonesian Colonial Migrants in the Netherlands
11.30-14.10 Culinary Cultures: Paper Session 1B
Antonia Mazel: Gastro-Politics in Italy: Food, National Identity and the Invention of Tradition
Åsmund Ormset: Wine as a Marker of Cultural Difference in The Guanches of Tenerife and the Conquest of Canarias by Lope de Vega
Caroline Lusin: Curry, Tins and Chota Hazri: Food, Identity and Cultural Boundaries in Anglo-Indian Life-Writing
Seda Muftugil: The Making of a Turkish/Ottoman Cuisine
14.10 AFTERNOON FREE
Wednesday 28th July
Perverse Food
10.00-11.15 Plenary Lecture 3
Knut Stene-Johansen: Freud and the Passion for Food. Psychoanalysis and Gastronomy
11.15-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-12.50 Perverse Food: Paper Session 1A
Dominik Schrey: ‘I Wonder Who the Real Cannibals Are’ – Filmic Representations of Cannibalism Beyond the Horror Genre
Florian Vlad: Consuming the Human: Disease and Anthropophagia in Land of the Dead and The Road
11.30-12.50 Perverse Food: Paper Session 1B
Pelin Aytemiz: Dead Body in the Kitchen as an Abject Food: Cannibalism and Corpse Cooking Films
Maja Krajnc: Beauty and Horror
12.50-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.20 Perverse Food: Paper Session 2A
Simon Bacon: Eat Me!: The Moral Dilemma of Need and Necessity in Vampiric Cuisine
Pietro Bianchi: The Contemporary Symbolic Order and its Relation to Enjoyment: Hysteria to Eating Disorders
14.00-15.20 Perverse Food: Paper Session 2A
Alex MacKintosh: A Slaughterhouse in Fleet Street: Sweeney Todd and the Slaughterhouses of Nineteenth-century London
Anne Kleberg Hansen: Bodies Out of (Proper) Shape
15.20 AFTERNOON FREE
Thursday 29th July
Art and Food
10.00-11.15 Plenary Lecture 4
Mark Cousins: Food for Thought: Reading and Eating
11.15-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.30 Art, Ritual and Food: Paper Session 1A
Jacob Lillemose: The Senses Define a Space which is Unoccupiable. On Gordon Matta-Clark's Food (1971-1974)
Mirjam Horn: The Hunger Artist Revisited: On the Correlation of Starving and Aesthetic Practice
Kai Liu: Dining as a Medium
11.30-13.30 Art, Ritual and Food: Paper Session 1B
Freek Janssens: Anyone Can Cook: Aesthetics and Politics in Ratatouille
Paul Craddock: Food and Metaphors for Eating in Christian Interpretations of the Bodily Resurrection
Elisabetta Colla: “Inked-food”: tasting Macao through A Cheng´s Water-painted Caricature
13.30-14.45 LUNCH
14.45-16.00 Plenary Lecture 5
Laura Salisbury: What Samuel Beckett Throws Up
Friday 30th July
Gastropolitics
10.00-11.15 Plenary Lecture 6
Jaap Kooijman: Coca-Colanozation and McDonaldization: The Fast Food Metaphor in the Globalization Debate
11.15-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-12.50 Gastropolitics: Paper Session A
Caroline Nyvang: Back to the Roots? Vegetarian Cookbooks as Countercuisine
Marc Tuters: Open-Source Food and Cosmopolitics
11.30-12.50 Gastropolitics: Paper Session B
Trine Antonsen: The Ethics of Eating Right
Igor Bijuklic: When Food became Fuel
12.50–14.00 LUNCH
14.00 Concluding Remarks and Evaluation
18.00-21.00 Conference Banquet Dinner: East Room, TATE Modern