Caribbean Food Cultures. Representations and Performances of Eating, Drinking and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas

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Caribbean Food Cultures. Representations and Performances of Eating, Drinking and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas

Veranstalter
Junior Research Group: "From the Caribbean to North America and Back. Processes of Transculturation in Literature, Popular Culture and the New Media"
Veranstaltungsort
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg
Ort
Heidelberg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.09.2012 - 29.09.2012
Website
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality/
Von
Patrick Helber

Confirmed Keynote Speakers are:
Professor Rita de Maeseneer (Antwerp) “The Aesthetics of Hunger and the Special Period in Cuba”

Professor Fabio Parasecoli (New York) “Representations of Caribbean Food in US Popular Culture”

Topic:
In the Caribbean, food and drinks as products and as acts or performances play a crucial role in various areas of human behavior and interaction: for the self-preservation of the body, as ethnic, religious and national identity markers, in the context of local and global commercial relationships, or regarding the fair allocation of food and relations of production. These biological, social, economic, historical and ethnic dimensions have taken a special turn in the Caribbean – a region that has been heavily influenced by migration. Thus, on the one hand, colonizers, slaves, contract workers, privateers and refugees were components of specific historical relations of production and trade. On the other hand, these different groups of people brought along social, cultural and economic practices related to food, consumer and luxury goods, which were subject to change and (or) hybridization. In the course of decolonization, emigration and tourism these goods and food, in turn, are being re-imported into the former European “motherlands” and North America.

The aim of this conference is to explore acts or performances that are related to the production, consumption and the symbolism of food and nutrition in the Caribbean and its diasporas from the perspectives of cultural, social and behavioral sciences. Particular attention will be paid to contemporary and transnational perspectives. These, for example, can be concerned with the social or religious significance of food, abstinence, rituals of exchange and preparation as well as the exchange of culinary traditions and ingredients on the internet. Of further interest are national and transnational representation practices of eating and drinking in literature, popular culture and new media, such as the advertisement of Caribbean products in the region and the diasporas and the symbolic or metaphorical usage of “ethnic food” and its consumption in narrative literature and song lyrics.

Conference Venue:
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Hauptstraße 242

http://www.iwh.uni-hd.de/index_engl.html

Please contact foodcultures@gmail.com if you would like to participate.

Organizers: Junior Research Group “From the Caribbean to North America and Back”, Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg

For further information visit:
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality/karibik-nordamerika_en.html

Programm

Time

Friday, 28.09.2012

09:30

Registration

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome

Anne Brüske

10:15 - 11:15 Keynote 1

Fabio Parasecoli (New York)
“Representations of Caribbean Food in US Popular Culture”

11:15 - 11:30

Coffee

11:30 - 13:00

Panel 1:

Cooking the Caribbean Abroad. (Neo-) Colonial Gazes on Caribbean Food.

Chair: Ana-Sofia Commichau

Miriam Oesterreich (Heidelberg)

“Devouring the Caribbean Body. Early European Advertisements for Exotic Food”

Christoph Bock (Göttingen)

“Cultural Implications and Strategies of Authentication in Modern-Day Caribbean Cookbooks”

Sebastian Huber (Munich)

“Bioculinary Production? Preparing Food, Creating Culture in David Simon’s Treme”

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

Panel 2:

Symbolic Representations and Rituals of Consumption in New Media and Popular Culture

Chair: Patrick Helber

Sarah Lawson Welsh (York)

“Cooking up a Storm: residual orality, cross-cultural culinary discourse and the construction of tradition in the cookery writing of Levi Roots (Jamaica-UK)”

Katharina Weis (Frankfurt)

“Watching Caribbean Vloggers on Youtube Eat and Drink. Exploring Symbolic Representations of Culture in the EFL Classroom via the Black Male Body”

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Annika McPherson (Oldenburg)

“‘The food dem produce, me non go eat it’. Rastafari ‘Culinary Identity’”

Mona Nikolić (Berlin)

“Re-inventing Local Food Culture in an Afro-Caribbean Community in Costa Rica”

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee

16:30 - 19:00 Panel 3:

Culinary Identities at Home and in the Diaspora
Chair: Sinah Kloß

Elizabeth den Boer (Leiden)

“Hindu Ritual Food in Suriname. Women as Gatekeepers of Hindu Identity?”

Rosana Herrero Martín (Antigua)

“El verbo se hizo carne y habitó entre nosotros. Sociabilización y Performatividad en la Liturgia del Yantar en la Regla Ocha-Ifa de Cuba”

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Dwaine Plaza (Oregon)

“Barrels of Love. Gift Giving in Caribbean Transnational Communities”

Ivan Darias Alfonso (London)

“Eating Cuban. We are what we now eat. Food and Identity in the Cuban Diaspora”

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Short Film:

“Doubles with Slight Pepper” (2011)
Dir. Ian Harnarine

20:00 Conference Dinner

(Location: Schiller’s, Heiliggeiststraße 5)

Saturday, 29.09.2012

09:30 -10:30

Keynote 2

Rita de Maeseneer (Antwerp)

“The Aesthetics of Hunger and the Special Period in Cuba”

10:30 - 11:00

Panel 4:

Consuming (in) Caribbean Writing. Literary, Social and Historic Perspectives

Chair: Wiebke Beushausen

Patricia Tomé (Winter Park, Florida)

“Cuba’s Hunger Force. Women Bodies to the Rescue”

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee

11:30 - 13:30

Bartosz Wójcik (Lublin)

“‘Where [are] you going without breakfast?’ Food Practices in Anglophone Caribbean Memoirs”

Ilaria Berti (Genoa)

“Curiosity, Appreciation and Disgust. Creolization of Colonizers’ Food Pattern Consumption in Three English Travelogues”

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Louisa Söllner (Munich)

“Eating to Remember, Eating to Forget. Culinary Encounters in Cristina García’s Fiction”

Daniel Graziadei (Munich)

“Sapho’s blaff de poison followed by flan au coco and a bit of Slaver’s Rum. The fierce Questioning of the Purpose and Power of Fictional Caribbean Communion in Edouard Glissant’s Ormerod”

13:30 Final Discussion

Kontakt

Patrick Helber

Marstallstraße 6
69117 Heidelberg

p.helber@uni-heideberg.de

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality/