Registration is required to attend.

Thursday, October 12 in Room 266, Everson Hall

9:30 am // Opening Remarks

10:00 am – 12:00 pm // Morning Session

Elizabeth Pérez (UC Santa Barbara), “When the Gut Is a God: Food & the Stomach’s Sacrality in Afro-Diasporic Religions”

Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis), “Gastronomic Double Entendres in Cuban Popular Music”

Robin Derby (UCLA), “Consuming Struggles: Male Hunger and the Body Politic in Cuba”

12:00 pm // Lunch

1:00–3:00 pm // Afternoon Session I

Alison Krögel (U of Denver), “Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: Quechua Poetry & Food Landscapes”

Daniela Gutiérrez Flores (UC Davis), “The Sounds and Colors of Chocolate: Food, Rhythm and Race in 17th-Century Spain”

Santiago Eslava Bejarano (UC Davis), “Meat in Paradise? Animal Consumption in Lope de Rueda’s Land of Jauja”

3:00–3:30 pm // Coffee Break

3:30–5:30 pm // Afternoon Session II

Alex Rossi (UC Davis), “Comida Do Mar: Themes of Food and the Ocean in Capoeira Lyrics”

Sean Williams (Evergreen State College), “The Presence of Absence: Song, Food, and Longing”

Mark Laver (Grinnell College), “Dinner Jazz: Consumption, Improvisation, and the Politics of Listening”

Friday, October 13 in Room 115, Music Building

10:00 am – 12:00 pm // Final Session

Meredith Abarca (UT El Paso), “El Paso Food Voices: Maintaining Intimate Culinary Heritage”

Jennifer Sherill (UC Davis), “Around Aai’s Table: Food and Music as Indices of Home in the Diasporic Indian Kitchen”

Sara de Blas Hernández (UC Davis), “Building Community Through Recipe Sharing: Gender and Culinary Knowledge in Libro de apuntaciones de guisos y dulces (c. 1740)”

12:00–12:30 pm // Closing Remarks