The 10th Annual Global Tea Institute’s colloquium examined the relationship between tea and peace during it’s day-long event. On Thursday, Jan. 30, “Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together” invited humanities scholars, science and health researchers and members of the tea industry to come together to explore the role tea plays in soothing the soul and developing community.

Speakers for this year’s colloquium were:
Klaus Lange, Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany and the Nara Insitute of Science and Technology, Japan
“Tea and Depression”
Juan Fernando Ortiz, Neurology Resident PGY-3, Corewell Health West, Michigan State University
“The Cognitive Enhancing Properties of L-theanine and Caffeine”
Morgan Pitelka, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professoir of Asian Studies, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Tea and Community in Seventeenth-century Kyoto”
Erika Rappaport, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Brewing the People’s Tea: World War Two, Public Relations, and the Rebranding of a Rationed Good”

Katharine Burnett, art history professor and Founding Director of UC Davis’ Global Tea Institute gave the introductory and closing remarks.

The 10th Annual Colloquium was held at the UC Davis Conference Center.