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> forwarded message:
>
> Time: Fridays, 13:00-15:00
> Venue: G3, SOAS (Main Building)
> Convenor: Dr Jakob Klein, [log in to unmask]
>
> Term 1
>
> Note: This programme is provisional only and may be changed at  
> short notice.
>
> Week 1 (5 October)
> Film: Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) (dir.  
> Alfonso
> Arau, 1991)
>
> Suggested reading:
> López-Rodrígez, Miriam, ‘Cooking Mexicanness: shaping national  
> identity
> in Alfonso Arau’s Como agua para chocolate’, in Bower (2004), pp.  
> 61-73.
>
>
> Week 3 (19 October)
> Seminar: Joanna Crosby (Education Section Administrator, Cambridge
> University Botanic Garden) and Neil Kelsall (Managing Director,  
> Malagasy
> Chocolate). ‘A brief history of chocolate, and the history of Malagasy
> chocolate as a study in ethical/sustainable trade.’ There will be  
> tastings!
>
> Week 4 (26 October)
> Seminar: Randolph Hodgson (Owner, Neal’s Yard Dairy) and Joe Schneider
> (Stitcheton cheesemaker): ‘The creation of a new traditional cheese.’
>
> Week 5 (2 November)
> Seminar: Dr Peter Flügel (Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS):
> ‘Social implications of Jain vegetarianism.’
>
> Suggested reading:
> See reading list provided by Dr. Flügel.
>
> Week 6 (Reading Week)
>
> Week 7 (16 November)
> Film: Delicatessen (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro,1991)
>
> Suggested reading:
> Claflin, Kyri Watson, ‘Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s  
> Delicatessen:
> an ambiguous memory, an ambivalent meal’, in Bower (2004), pp.  
> 235-49. A
> copy of this article is held in the Helen Kanitkar Library (Room 552).
>
> Week 8 (23 November)
> Film: What’s Cooking? (dir. Gurinder Chadha, 2000)
>
> Suggested reading:
> Chakravarti, Debnita, ‘Feel good reel food: a taste of the cultural
> kedgeree in Gurinda Chadha’s What’s Cooking?’, in Bower (2004), pp.  
> 17-26.
>
> Week 9 (30 November)
> Seminar: Professor William Gervais Clarence-Smith (Department of
> History, SOAS): ‘Identity and the spread of beverages around the  
> globe.’
>
> Week 10 (7 December)
> Film: Chicken and Duck Talk (Gaai tuhng ngaap gong) (dir. Michael  
> Hui, 1988)
>
> Suggested reading:
> Watson, James L. (1997) ‘McDonald’s in Hong Kong: consumerism, dietary
> change, and the rise of a children’s culture’ in J.L. Watson (ed.),
> Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia, Stanford: Stanford
> University Press, pp. 77-109.
>
> Week 11 (14 December)
> Film: Soul Food (dir. George Tillman, Jr., 1997)
>
> Suggested reading:
> Balthrope, Robin, ‘Food as representative of ethnicity and culture in
> George Tillman, Jr.’s Soul Food, María Ripoll’s Tortilla Soup, and Tim
> Reid’s Once upon a Time When We Were Colored’, in Bower (2004), pp.  
> 101-13.
>
>
>   Term 2
>
> Note: This programme is provisional only and may be changed at  
> short notice.
>
> Week 1 (11 January)
> Film: Tampopo (dir. Itami Juzo, 1985)
>
> Suggested reading:
> Ashkenazi, Michael, ‘Food, Play, Business, and the Image of Japan in
> Itami Juzo’s Tampopo’ in Bower (2004), pp. 235-49. A copy of this
> article is held in the Helen Kanitkar Library (Room 552).
>
> Week 2  (18 January)
> Film: Babette’s Feast (Babettes gæstebud) (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1987)
>
> Suggested reading:
> McFadden, Margaret H., ‘Gendering the feast: women, spirituality, and
> grace in three food films’, in Bower (2004), pp. 117-28.
>
> Week 3 (25 January)
>
> Seminar: Professor J.A. Allan (King’s College/SOAS): ‘Food and water
> security – local problems and global solutions’
>
> Suggested reading:
> Allan, J.A. (2002) ‘Hydro-peace in the Middle East: Why no water  
> wars? A
> case study of the Jordan River Basin, SAIS Review, 22 (2): 255-72.
>
> Merrett, S., J.A. Allan and C. Lant (2003) ‘Virtual water: the water,
> food, and trade nexus. Useful concept or misleading metaphor?’ IWRA,
> Water International, 28 (1): 4-11.
>
> See also: www.soas.ac.uk/waterissues
>
> Week 4 (1 February)
> Seminar: Professor Merry White (Department of Anthropology, Boston
> University): topic to be announced
>
> Week 5 (8 February)
> Seminar: Liam Campling (Development Studies, SOAS): ‘The politics of
> international trade relations and the global commodity chain in tuna’
>
> Suggested reading:
> Bestor, Theodore C. (2005 [2000]) ‘How sushi went global’, in James L.
> Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell (eds), The Cultural Politics of Food  
> and
> Eating: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 13-20.
>
> Bestor, Theodore C. (2004) Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Centre  
> of the
> World. Berkeley: University of California Press. See, for example,
> Chapter 1: ‘Tokyo’s Pantry’, pp. 1-49.
>
> Week 6 (Reading Week)
>
> Week 7 (22 February)
> Seminar: Professor Michael Rowlands (Department of Anthropology, UCL):
> ‘Violence, displacement and food’
>
> Week 8 (29 February)
>
> Film: The Last Link (dir. Ben Kahn, 2005)
>
> Week 9 (7 March)
> Seminar: Dr. Deborah Johnston (Department of Economics, SOAS)  
> ‘Estimates
> and causes of poor nutrition – meaningful disagreements among  
> economists’
>
> Week 10 (14 March)
> Seminar: Professor Richard Wilk (Gender Studies and Anthropology,
> Indiana University): ‘The water and ice trade to nineteenth century
> British colonies.’
>
> This message has been sent from the SOAS Food Studies Centre,  
> located in
> the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African
> Studies, University of London. The Centre is chaired by Dr. Harry G.
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> Studies
> Centre or the SOAS Food Forum, or content for distribution to Centre
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>
> Subject:
> SOAS Food Studies Centre Inaugural Lecture
> From:
> SOAS Food Studies Centre <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:03:38 +0000
> To:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> The SOAS Food Studies Centre will launch with a lecture by  Professor
> Sidney Mintz entitled ‘FOOD & DIASPORA’ at 6:30pm on Thursday, 11
> October 2007 in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS. All are
> welcome, and entry is free of charge, but
> to guarantee a seat, please email: Rahima on [log in to unmask] or  
> call 020
> 7898 4893.
> For details, see attached flyer.
>
>
>
>
> This message has been sent from the SOAS Food Studies Centre,  
> located in
> the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African
> Studies, University of London. The Centre is chaired by Dr. Harry G.
> West, Reader in Anthropology. Enquiries concerning the SOAS Food  
> Studies
> Centre or the SOAS Food Forum, or content for distribution to Centre
> members, may be directed to this email address.
>
>
>
> Subject:
> SOAS Food Forum Distinguished Lecture by Frances Moore Lappe
> From:
> SOAS Food Studies Centre <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:19:09 +0000
> To:
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>
> The first SOAS Food Forum Distinguished Lecture, entitled Living
> Democracy, Ending Hunger, will be given by Frances Moore Lappé at  
> 6.30pm
> on Monday, 12 November 2007 in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre,  
> SOAS.
> Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet (1971) has sold over 3
> million copies and continues to awaken readers to the human-made  
> causes
> of hunger and the power of our everyday choices to create the world we
> want. She co-founded Food First, the California-based Institute for  
> Food
> and Development Policy, and now co-leads the Small Planet Institute, a
> collaborative network for research and popular education to bring
> democracy to life. She is author or co-author of 16 books,  
> including her
> latest, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World  
> Gone
> Mad. All are welcome, and entry is free of charge, but to reserve a
> place contact [log in to unmask] or Tel 020 7898 4892. See attached  
> flyer.
>
>
>
> This message has been sent from the SOAS Food Studies Centre,  
> located in
> the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African
> Studies, University of London. The Centre is chaired by Dr. Harry G.
> West, Reader in Anthropology. Enquiries concerning the SOAS Food  
> Studies
> Centre or the SOAS Food Forum, or content for distribution to Centre
> members, may be directed to this email address.
>
>
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