Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Features work emerging from the 2015-2016 Humanities Center/GEI Faculty Research Seminar.
Presenters: Christine Lac, Senior Lecturer in French, The Gastronomic Meal of the French.
Clara Hardy, Professor of Classics, Eating Your Children: Sex, Food and Knowledge in Ovid’s Tale of Procne and Philomela.
Kathleen Ryor, Professor of Art History, The Growing Taste for Taste: Food in Ming Dynasty Paintings.
Constanza Ocampa-Raeder, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Fresh Cebiche and other Fantasies of the Gourmet World: Revealing the Ecological and Social Truths of the Artisanal Food Movement and the Quest for the Perfect Taste.
Trish Beckman, Assistant Professor of Religion (St. Olaf) Manna, Milk, and Mysticism. Jewish, Christian, Muslim Teachings on Food as Gateway to God.
Moderated by Laura Goering, Professor of Russian.