3rd Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference
Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures
College of Liberal and Fine
Arts
5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Registration. (Frio Street Building 1.402)
7:00 p.m.: Conference Inauguration. (Frio Street Building 1.406)
Prof. Kellen McIntyre, Conference Chair
Prof. Marita Nummikoski, Chair Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures
Dr. Dan Gelo, Dean of The College of Liberal and Fine Arts.
Welcoming Remarks
Lecture:
Nina Scott
University of
Massachusetts/Amherst
“Chocolate, Chile and
Fertile Sows.”
8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.: Reception (Frio Street Building 1.402)
8:00
a.m.-12:00 noon. Registration. (Buena Vista Street Building
1.338)
8:30
a.m.-9:45 a.m. Session I
Mayela Vallejos-Ramírez. Mesa State College
“Un pueblo visto a través de la sazón de sus alimentos y frutos en Costa Rica poema a poema:
Un recorrido por el alma secreta de la patria de Julieta Dobles.”
Maryann Tebben. Simon´s Rock College
“French Food, Culture, and Literature.”
Mads Julius Elf. Copenhagen University
“Tiger in the Kitchen: The Politics of Food and Welfare in the Danish Literary Discourse of
Villy Sorensen.”
Panel 2 (Frio Street Building 3.402) Cookbooks and Food Writing
Moderator: Patricia E. Clark. State University of New York at Oswego
Cathleen Chapman. University of Southern California
“Food,
the Arts, and the National Body Politic: Vincent and Mary Price’s A Treasure
of Great Recipies.”
Patricia E. Clark. State University of New York at Oswego
“Food, Identity, Autobiogaphy: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.”
Beth Marie Forrest. Boston University
“Brillat-Savarin as Stock: The Influence of the French Gastronomes on English Food Writing.”
Moderator: Hsiu-Chuang Deppman. Oberlin College
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman. Oberlin College
“Eating Bitterness and Fighting with Food in Joy Luck Club.”
Annette
Olsen-Fazi. Louisiana State University Alexandria
“Food as a Metaphor for Cultural Identity in Literature and Film from Different Traditional and Linguistic Groups.”
Joellen Masters. College of General Studies. Boston University
“We All Scream for Ice Cream: The Semiotics of Food in Monster´s
Ball.”
Friday,
February 27
10:00
a.m.-11:15 a.m. Session II
Panel 4 (Frio Street
Building 3.402) Food Art by Artists
Moderator: Kellen McIntyre. The University of Texas at San Antonio
Charles C. Beneke. Myers School of Art
“Comfort Food”
Lauren Schiller. Seton Hall University
“Role of Food as a Subject Matter and Artist’s Material”
Adriane Herman. Maine College of Art
“Food Memories, Associations and Rituals.”
Moderator: Lisa Splittgerber. St Cloud State University
Alejandro Latinez. Vanderbilt University
“Paradiso y Te doy la vida entera: Diálogo, di-gestas, di-gestión económica. Memoria culinaria
y sobremesa en tiempo de crisis.”
Graciela N.V. Corvalán. Webster University
“La comida como seducción, comunicación y amistad en ‘El lobo, el bosque y el hombre
nuevo’(1991), del escritor cubano Senel Paz.”
Julie Hempel. Austin College
“Toritos, Marrow Soup, and Chicken Tacos: The Configuration of Differential Identities Through Food and Alcohol.”
Friday, February 27
11:30 a.m.-12:45 a.m.
Session III
Deborah
Israel. University of Central Oklahoma
“From Gefilte
Fish to Steak and Potatoes: Food and Identity in Jewish Women Immigrant’s
Autobiographies.”
Francesca
LoDico. Food Writer
“The
Gastronomical Me.”
Panel 7 (Frio Street Building 3.406) War and Conflict
Moderator: Krista Sprecher. University
of Charleston
Mary Anne
Schofield. Vilanova University
“‘Of Course I
care:’ Preserving the War in Women’s Writing, 1939-1945.”
Witt Salley. North Arkansas College
Krista
Sprecher. University of Charleston
“In Love and War:
Food Symbolism in Hemingway’s A Farawell to Arms and Ondaatje’s
The English
Patient.”
Panel 8 (Frio Street Building 3.512) Latin American Literature
Moderator: Jack Himelblau. The University of Texas at San Antonio
Kelly C.
Jensen. Samford University
“Home Cooking and
Cooking Home: Seasoning Exile Identity.”
Ariel
Strichartz. St. Olaf College
“Consuming
Argentina in the Name of Love: Cannibalism and Holy Communion in Carne, by
Eduardo Rovner.”
Janet Long
Towell. Instituto Técnico de México
“The Food Culture of Mexico.”
Friday, February 27
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Session
IV
Jonathan Applefield. Columbia University
“Acrid Reflux: The Chrome Foods of Robert Watts.”
Norma Cárdenas. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Feeding Their Art: Carmen Lomas Garza and Rolando Briseño.”
Panel 10 (Frio Street Building 3.406) Spanish Picaresque
Moderator: Santiago Daydi-Tolson. The University of Texas at San Antonio
Preston McLane. Florida State University
“The Beggar´s
Saussage and the Nobleman´s Turnip: Picturing Picaresque Hunger.”
Anne Hunt. Dartmouth College
“¿Buen Provecho?
Food and Violence in Lazarillo de Tormes.”
Friday,
February 27
4:00 p.m-5:00 p.m. Session V (San Antonio Museum of Art)
(Buses will leave from the hotel at 3:30 pm and 3:45 pm, and at
half hour intervals,
starting at
4:00 pm.)
Panel 11 (San Antonio Museum of Art) Rolando Briseño: The Artist at Work
Moderator and Organizer: Gary D. Keller. Arizona
State University.
Gary D. Keller and Rolando Briseño
“Food, Both Latino and pre-Hispanic in the Oeuvre of Rolando Briseño: A
Review of the Artist´s Work and a Personal Conversation with Him.”
Friday,
February 27
5:00 p.m-6:00 p.m. Gallery time at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Friday,
February 27 (San Antonio Museum of Art)
6:00 p.m. Art Exhibit: “Food for Thought” (From the Museum Collection). Reception
7:00
p.m. Film: Vatel.
8:15
a.m.-10:00 a.m. Registration.
(Buena Vista 1.338)
8:30
a.m.-9:45 a.m. Session VI
Panel 12 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.304) Food in Film
Moderator: Inge Aures. De Paw
University
Inge Aures. De Paw University
“Bella Martha or
the Way to a Woman´s Heart.”
Nilsa
Rodríguez-Jaca. Culinary Institute of America
“A Chef in
Distress?: The Art of Cooking in Tortilla Soup, Women on Top, and
Like Water for Chocolate.”
Leslie
Richardson. Southwest Missouri State University
“‘Can Also Be
Made Using Milk’: The Function of Nursing, Nurturing, and Milk in Like Water
for Chocolate.”
Fabio Peña. The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Call Me” (Video)
Panel 13 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.306) Writing and Food in Spain
Moderator: Nancy Membrez. The University of Texas at San Antonio
James C. Courtad. Central Michigan University
“Food for the Passions: Appetites for Destruction in the Galdosian Society of Lo prohibido.”
Vicente Cano. Moorhead State University
“Fiestas y recursos gastronómicos en Arroz y tartana de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.”
Nina B. Namaste. University of Iowa
“Mariló Seco’s Mermelada de fresa: Food Imagery and Feminine Identity in Contemporary
Spanish Drama.”
Panel 14 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.312) The Substance of Literature
Moderator: Lila Grosz. The University of Texas at
San Antonio
Jed Deppman. Oberlin College
“Strong Draughts
and Refreshing Minds: Dickinson, Baudelaire, and Alcohol.”
Judith
L. Fisher. Trinity University
“Drug,
Food, or Beverage? Tea in English Literature.”
Udaya Ravi. PA College, India
“Food in
Kannada Literature.”
10:00
a.m.-11:15 a.m. Session VII
Panel 15 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.304) Indigenous America
Moderator: Gustavo V. García. Indiana University-Purdue University
Laura Brannen.
Emory University
“Drink Divine:
Chocolate in the Ancient Americas.”
Ana María
González.
“El pueblo de
Seguín, según Cabeza de Vaca”.
Gustavo V.
García. Indiana University-Purdue University
“Comida y
representación negativa del ‘indio’en la novela indigenista: el caso de Huasipungo.”
Panel 16 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.306) Food and Social Classes
Moderator: Lila
Grosz. The University
of Texas at San Antonio
Miguel A. Niño.
“La comida como elemento diferenciador de las clases sociales mexicanas: La piel del cielo.”
Antonio Medina-Rivera. Cleveland State University
“Lo carnavalesco y lo culinario en la obra de Rosario Ferré.”
Lisa E. Splittgerber. St Cloud State University
“’No seas tú causa de que nos muramos de hambre’: Coffee Beans and the Death of Persephone in Seno Gandía’s La charca.”
Panel 17 (Buena Vista
Street Building 3.312). Eating in England
Moderador: Christopher Wickham. The
University of Texas at San Antonio
Maike B. Hudson. The University
of Texas at San Antonio
“The Gluttony of the King: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to the Eating Habits of Henry VIII.”
Holly Maloney. Southwest
Missouri State University
“Starvation, Corned Beef Sandwiches, and
Bertie Bott´s Every Flavored Beans: The Significance
of Food in the Harry Potter
Series.”
Susanne Kimball. The
University of Texas at San Antonio
“The English Working-Class Diet.”
Saturday,
February 28
11:30
a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session VIII
Panel 18 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.312) Classic Antiquity
Moderador: Erwin Cook. Trinity
University
Anastasia
Serghidou. University of Crete
“Athanaeus´ Food
Ethnography.”
Victoria Tsoukala. Bryn
Mawr College
“The Imagery of
Cereal Processing and the Construction of Female Gender Identities in 5th and
6th Centuries B.C.
Greece.”
John Rundin. University of Texas at
San Antonio
“How is Homeric
Feast Equal?”
Reinhard Krueger. University of Stuttgart
“Comida y
cosmología y el huevo divino: los casos de Petronio y Marciano Capella.”
Panel 19 (Buena Vista Street Building 3.306) Native American Rituals
Moderator: MaryEllen Garcia. The
University of Texas at San Antonio
Elizabeth Morán. City University of New York
“The Sacred as
Everyday: Aztec Sacrifice and Eating Rituals.”
Karen Stothert. University of Texas at San Antonio
“Feeding the Dead:
Food Offerings Among Ancient and Contemporary Native Americans in
Ecuador.”
Doris Careaga-Coleman.
Independent Scholar.
La Tercera Raíz
en Tamiahua (Video-Documental)
Organizer and Moderator: Nancy Membrez. The University of Texas at
San Antonio
Saturday,
February 28
13:00
p.m.-13:30 p.m. Session IX
Panel 21 (Buena Vista Street Building 1.328) Closing Session
Moderator: Santiago Daydi-Tolson
Free exchange of ideas on how to teach food issues in literature, art and film classes.