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FOOD AND POLITICS The language of food between social practices and ideological representations
7 November 2019, 15:00 - 9 November 2019, 12:30
The Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna in collaboration with the Department of History, Culture and Civilization of the University of Bologna invite to the international conference Food and politics. The language of food between social practices and ideological representations with the scientific responsibility of Massimo Montanari, Paolo Capuzzo, Davide Domenici.
Food is a kind of language that loads the nutritional act with multiple meanings. This conference aims to analyze the political dimension of the language of food in two main ways: on the one hand, by considering food as a sign of belonging to a community – a polis; on the other hand, by taking into account the “discourses on food” and the actions undertaken by public authorities as a way to manage and define the relationship with citizens.
The conference concludes a National Research Project (PRIN) launched in 2015 by the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Universities of Palermo and Pollenzo. The project has involved scholars from various scientific fields, ranging between history, anthropology, semiotics, philosophy and art history. These different yet complementary approaches have already led to important scientific meetings held at the three Universities. This final event brings together specialists of international standing, highlighting the fertility and extraordinary potential of food history as a key to a global access to history.
Program:
Thursday, 7 November 2019
3.00 pm
Massimo Montanari, Università di Bologna
Charlemagne at table. Food models and political communication
Jesus Contreras Hernández, Universitat de Barcelona
If cooking is political, how many policies are there in cooking?
4.30 pm Coffee break
5.00 pm
Bruno Laurioux, Universitè de Tours
Some pure political banquets: table and diplomacy in 14 th and 15 th century
Jean-Pierre Devroey, Université libre de Bruxelles
Mirroring Charlemagne: grain market, royal power, and food policy in the age of Louis XIV
Friday, 8 November 2019
9.00 am
Davide Domenici, Università di Bologna
Eating like a lord. Nahua and spanish valorization of culinary lexical diversity in early colonial New Spain
Hugo Cetrangolo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Claudia Bachur, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Political organization in the jesuit missions. Syncretism with the food culture of Guarani
10.30 am Coffee break
11.00 am
Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
Potatoes, political economy and population in the 18 th century
Jarosław Dumanowsky, Uniwersytet w Toruń
National cuisine? Food, dress and politics in late 18 th century Poland
3.00 pm
Ilaria Porciani, Università di Bologna
Nations on a plate
Carmen Soares, Universidade de Coimbra
National cuisine in portuguese cookery books in the 19th and 20th centuries: the meaning and context behind a concept
4.30 pm Coffee break
5.00 pm
Alberto Capatti, già rettore dell’Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo
Le politiche vegetariane nel XX secolo
Emilio Mari, Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma
Food and propaganda in the USSR: from the New Moscow to the kolkhoz village
Daniel Bender, University of Toronto
Dining at the intercontinental: how to eat local in the Cold War
Saturday, 9 November 2019
9.00 am
Paolo Capuzzo, Università di Bologna
Food political languages at the intersection between state and market economy
Françoise Sabban, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Rise and decadence of the maoist diet
ore 10.30 Coffee break
ore 11.00
Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto
Food politics and public spaces: vendor cries become urban disorder & sound pollution
Fabio Parasecoli, New York University
Mateusz Halawa, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa
Beavers, baby octopus, and bananas: food, politics, and contemporary culture wars in Poland
ore 12.30 Closing the conference, opening new horizons