Reminder: "Food for Thought" conference at UT Austin

[Tatiana Kuzmic]

*Call *for* Papers*

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*Food for Thought*

*Culture and Cuisine in Russia and Eastern Europe  1800-the present  ***

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Symposium at the University of Texas – February 7-8,  2014



The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies in cooperation with the
Department of History and the Center for European Studies at the University
of Texas at Austin are hosting a one-two day symposium on the culture of
food in the Russian Empire (and Soviet Union) and its successor states as
well as “Eastern Europe” broadly defined. Drawing on a wide range of
sources and disciplines, speakers will explore how patterns of food
cultivation,
preparation, and consumption are embedded in local, national, and
trans-national cultural configurations. Scholars from all disciplines are
welcome to apply, but organizers especially welcome contributions from
history, literary and cultural (including film and media) studies, and
anthropology. We hope to reexamine the history and culture of the region
through the lens of its food—that is, cultural attitudes, marketing and
packaging, memories and representations of particular foods, patterns of
eating, cultural dietary restrictions, or local cultural difference that
were expressed through divergent patterns of food preparation and
consumption. How was food as “tradition” experienced, how was its
cultivation and production gendered, how was it tied to religious or ethnic
differentiation, in what ways was it processed, “packaged” or otherwise
modernized—for example, tied to global patterns and flows.  How was it tied
to private and public socialization—the kitchen versus the restaurant or
cafeteria and what did this mean for local or national cultures? How was
food depicted in film and literature, described in cookbooks, marketed at
home and abroad?



*Featuring Dr. Ronald LeBlanc* as Keynote Speaker

“From Russian Vegetarians to Soviet Hamburgers: Tolstoy, Mikoyan, and the
Ethics/Politics of Diet.”

Ronald D. LeBlanc is Professor of Russian and Humanities at the University
of New Hampshire and Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.  The author of "Slavic Sins of the
Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian
Fiction" (2009), Professor LeBlanc has written numerous “gastrocritical”
studies on food and eating in the works of such writers as Tolstoy,
Dostoevsky, Gogol, Goncharov, Bulgakov, and Olesha.



*Co-organizers:*

*Mary Neuburger*

University of Texas

Department of History

burgerm at austin.utexas.edu



*Keith Livers*

University of Texas

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

*kalivers at austin.utexas.edu*

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*Tatiana Kuzmic*

University of Texas

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

*tkuzmic at austin.utexas.edu <tkuzmic at ausitn.utexas.edu>*

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*Please submit the following by May 30, 2013 to burgerm at austin.utexas.edu  :
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*1) Title*

*2)  One paragraph abstract*

*3)  3 page cv*

*4)  Request for funding.  – Specify requested dollar amount, and whether
participation is contingent on funding.*

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*Limited funds are available for travel and accommodation costs. We will
try to partially (or in some cases completely) fund as many speakers as
possible, but we ask that participants also draw on their own conference
funds if possible.*


-- 
Tatiana Kuzmic
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

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