The goal of the seminar is to question and describe how food and its representations in culinary practices, rituals of cuisine, consumption, production and packaging of foodstuffs, present an especially tasty intersection of space and history. Topics for individual papers might include food as collective memory; food as demarcation of shared identity; nationalism, ethnicity and food; food in the public sphere/food in the private realm; the fast food versus slow food debate; the transgenic controversy; future food; food taboos; colonial/postcolonial food; the temporality of eating disorders; culinary racisms; queer food; feasting/fasting; food fads and fad diets; body image and food. Potential topics should be addressed in historical and topographical/geographical contexts. Papers from all disciplines are welcome.

Send abstracts, cv's and/or inquiries by September 15 to:

Kathleen Chapman, Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, Campus Box 33, Boulder, CO 80309-0331, (303) 492-8406, Kchapg@cs.com