9.45 Arrival and Welcome
Eleanor Barnett & Katrina Moseley
10.15 Panel 1: Ethnicity
Dr May Rosenthal Sloan (V&A – History), ‘Marketing, Mythologies and Icons of the ‘Ethnic Food’ Aisle’
Dr Andrew Warnes (Leeds – American Studies), ‘White Plenty: Femininity, Race and the Invention of the American Supermarket’
Chair: Dr Susan Flavin (Anglia Ruskin – History)
11.15 Tea/ Coffee (SCR)
11.45 Panel 2: Gender
Dr Julie Parsons (Plymouth – Sociology),‘Gendering ‘noshtalgia’: tastes of reflection, food memories and the temporal affects of sedimented personal histories on everyday foodways.’
Dr Rachel Rich (Leeds Beckett – History), ‘Victorian Women’s domesticity and the recipes of Georgina Hill’
Professor Anne Murcott (SOAS – Sociology), ‘Interpreting bodily responses to eating/not eating in pregnancy and infancy’
Chair: Lesley Steinitz (Cambridge – History)
1.15 Lunch Break (SCR)
2.15 Panel 3: Religion
Dr Christopher Kissane (LSE – History), ‘To eat or not to eat pork, what difference does it make?’: Food & Embodied Religious Identities in Early Modern Europe’
Professor Beat Kümin (Warwick – History), ‘Drink and Religious Identities in Early Modern Europe’
Professor Maris Boyd Gillette (Gothenburg, Sweden- Anthropology), ‘Anthropological Perspectives on Food, the Body and Islam’
Chair: Eleanor Barnett (Cambridge – History)
3.45 Tea/ Coffee (SCR)
4.15 Panel 4: Class
Professor Ben Highmore (Sussex – Cultural Studies), ‘Chicken Bricks and Pasta Jars: Food and Feeling in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s’
Professor Alan Warde (Manchester – Sociology), ‘Adjusting taste: bodily management and the acceptance of unfamiliar foods in three English cities, 1995 – 2015’
Chair: Dr Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge – History)
5.15 Concluding Discussion
Eleanor Barnett & Katrina Moseley
6.00 Wine Reception (St John’s College, OMR)
7.30 Conference Dinner for Delegates
Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group 