Dear All,
Online registration and booking is now open for the 'Food and Ritual:
Ancient Practices, Modern
Perspectives' interdisciplinary conference at Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, March 19-21st, 2014.
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?
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This link can also be found by going to the Oxford University stores
homepage
(www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk) and clicking the link for Classics
events. The programme is given
below.
Sincerely,
Sarah Hitch and Rita Langer
Wednesday 19th March 2014
4.00 – 6.00 pm Tea, check-in, registration
Poster presentations: Roberto Batisti (Bologna) “Kneaded cake for the
banquet of the blessed? The etymology and history of Greek makaria”; Elena
Chapel (Reading), “Ritual dining in Athens”
Key note address (Chair: Fred Naiden)
6.00 – 7.30 pm Jan Bremmer (Groningen),
“The beginning, middle and end of sacrifice”
7.30 pm Wine Reception
Thursday 20th March 2014
Panel I: Ancient Mesopotamia (Chair: Christopher Metcalf)
9.00 – 10.00 am Walther Sallaberger (Munich),
“After the sacrifice: The distribution of food offerings in ancient
Mesopotamia”
10.00 – 11.00 am Frances Reynolds (Oxford),
“The Edible Body: Conceptions of the Divine in Assyria and Babylonia”
11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee
Panel II: Judaism
11.30 – 12:30 am Laura Feldt (Denmark),
“Blood, Bread, and Bitter Herbs: food practices, narrative context, and
religious identity in the Hebrew Bible Pesach Ritual”
12.30 – 1:30 am Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Exeter),
“The Body Modified and Transformed: On Ritual Food and the Materiality of
Religion in the Hebrew Bible”
1:30 – 3:00 pm Lunch
Panel III: Ancient Greece and Rome (Chair: Robert Parker)
3.00 – 4.00 pm Nicholas Purcell (Oxford),
"Priestly commensality and the boundaries of religious behaviour: the case
of the Roman cena aditialis"
4.00 – 5.00 pm Fred Naiden (UNC/Chapel Hill),
“Criminal Acts of Sacrifice”
5.00 – 5.30 pm Coffee
Panel IV: PG presentations (Chair: Sondra Hausner)
• 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Marek Sullivan, (Oxford, Oriental Studies):
“Mindful Tofu: Food Ethics in the Plum Village Tradition”
Priya Sury (Oxford):
“What is the place of food in the Ayurvedic tradition?: An analysis of the
Caraca Samhita and Sushruta Samhita (sections on food prescriptions) and
their practical implications for epidemic obesity?”
Laura Frude (Bristol)
7.00 pm Dinner
Friday 21st March 2014
Panel V: Food Rituals in S and SE Asia - Part I (Chair: David Gellner)
9.00 – 10:00 am Astrid Zotter (Heidelberg),
“Divine dishes and human gods: Food and food transactions in Nepalese
marriage rituals”
10.00 – 11:00 am Barbara Schuler (Hamburg),
“Food and Emotion in Ritual: Some
Observations”
11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee
Panel VI: Food Rituals in S and SE Asia - Part II (Chair: Ulrike Roesler)
11.30 – 12.30 pm Patrice Ladwig (Max-Planck Institute Halle),
“Ritual economies, sticky rice and the candy-bar flood. Food in Lao Buddhist
monasteries between vinaya and modern practices”
Round table discussion (Chairs: Sarah Hitch and Rita Langer)
12.30 – 1.30 pm All participants: Conclusions
1:30 pm Lunch and finish
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