Co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Steinhardt Food Studies Program, this session of the Feast and Famine Series will host Melissa L. Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Feast and Famine began in 1996, when the Food Studies program was launched. Marion Nestle (Food Studies- Steinhardt), Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Performance Studies-Tisch), and Susan Rogers (Anthropology- GFAS) received a grant from the NYU Humanities Council to hold (6) interdisciplinary seminars each year. Food Studies has continually hosted Feast and Famine for the past 17 years between 4 and 6 times annually, adding up to over 100 presentations.
Invited scholars across disciplines circulate their work - usually in early stages of development - before the seminar meets which insures an open-ended and substantial discussion. There are over 100 Feast and Famine members with 20-25 attending each session. A delicious light lunch is cooked and served by students as a part of their curriculum, encouraging a tactile and critical proximity to doing and thinking.
for
powered by
