April 3, 2013 | 3:30 to 5:30 PM | The Jordan Center's Diasporas Series
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This session of the Diasporas Project considers how national cuisines are constructed and solidified, and how they acquire new significance as they travel across state borders. Presentations will cover vodka (Patricia Herlihy, Brown), as well as Japanese (George Solt, NYU) and South Asian (Krishnendu Ray, NYU Steinhardt) cooking.
The Diasporas Project at NYU
The Diasporas Project is a series organized by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia in spring 2013. It is part of the Center’s inaugural year and we are grateful to the many units around NYU that have been offering help and guidance. The overarching purpose of the project is twofold: to consider the shared characteristics and shared assumptions that underpin the idea of a diaspora, and in the process erode our parochialisms; and to better grasp what is at stake and what is assumed when we cast movement as a diaspora rather than say an emigration, a migration, sex trafficking, slavery, or a flow of refugees. The project in no way aims to settle these questions one way or another; rather it aims to address them intelligently and forthrightly, as a guide to students and colleagues.
For more information, contact jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu.
