<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Jillian and I are co-convening a panel on food and language (see the panel abstract pasted in below) for CASCA, which will be meeting in early May in Ottawa (see conference website <a href="http://www.cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/information">http://www.cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/information</a>). The deadline for submitting paper proposals is Dec. 19, and to submit a paper proposal for our panel. please go here: <a href="http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5446">http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5446</a> </div><div><br></div><div>We're looking forward to seeing new work on this burgeoning topic!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Kate and Jillian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center">Out of the Kitchen and into the Slaughterhouse:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center">Food and Language beyond the Cookbook and the Dinner Table<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"> Organized
by <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center">Kathleen C. Riley (Rutgers University) and Jillian R. Cavanaugh
(Brooklyn College and CUNY)<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">In brief:
This panel combines a range of traditional approaches (from ethnosemantic to
discourse analysis) to create a common semiotic toolkit for studying how humans
communicate about, around, and through the full spectrum of their foodways (from
production to disposal). <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Abstract:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Studies that
bring food and language together have occurred across anthropology for decades
(think, for instance, of Malinowski’s yam spells, Frake’s drink orders, and Douglass’s
grammar of the meal). More recently, the joint focus on food and language in
anthropological and communication studies has continued in a range of forms: etymological
analysis of food words, conversational analysis of dinnertime discourse, and political
analysis of food rhetoric (from films to farm bills). However, the attempt to
bring these diverse threads together under one theoretical roof, working to
explore the full spectrum of foodways (from production and processing to
consumption and disposal) and the full multimodal spectrum of discourse (from
idioms to kitchen gossip, from lip smacks to multimedia ads) is as yet only
begun. This panel brings together papers
by a group of researchers who are pushing the boundaries of this emerging interdisciplinary
merger, looking for instance at feasting in France, sausage-making in Italy, women’s
entrepreneurial food in the Marquesas, and talk about and around local food in
Dominica. Together we hope to provide a
tantalizing vision of how food and language can be researched together through
a semiotic lens bent on how people index who they are and how they feel about
themselves and others, while communicating about, around, and through food in a
multitude of contexts. <span></span></p>
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