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