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Fall lectures explore food, culture 1:59 p.m., Aug. 25, 2006--“Research in Area Studies: Food, Culture and Society,” the fall 2006 lecture series sponsored by UD's Area Studies Program, will investigate a range of topics on Thursdays, Aug. 31-Nov. 30. Interested persons may sign up for the one-credit, pass/fail class, which runs from 12:30-1:20 p.m. in Room 111 Memorial Hall, and the talks also are free and open to the public. Featured will be specialists in African, continental European, East Asian and Latin American culture who will share research on food- and culture-related issues in contemporary societies. Sample lecture topics will include alcohol and colonialism in West Africa, African influences on American cuisine, Japan's rice riots of 1918, flavor and identity politics in Afro-Latin American cuisine, banquet culture and the revolution of 1848-49, and the “Muslim meal” in urban Malaysia. The series opens Aug. 31 with "Food and Body Image: Conflict for Latinas?," with Suzanne Cherrin, assistant professor of women's studies and Latin American studies at UD. Spaces in the class are still available, but filling fast. For more information on the series, call (302) 831-2793. |
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