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Toward a New History of Medieval Science: Cinnamon

October 30, 2019 This paper is the first draft of a chapter for a book-in-progress, co-authored with Ahmed Ragab of Harvard Divinity School, that aims to replace the old narrative regarding the history of medieval science,... Read More

Rethinking Urban Mega-Development, Crafting Alternatives in a Philippine Wholesale Market Trade

November 29, 2019 With growing Global South urbanization governments are revamping urban renewal by privileging large-scale projects and face lifting so-called problematic areas such as informally-spacialized street and public... Read More

“MY LIFE IS ON THOSE SHELVES…”: Ingesting Culinary Cultures in a Mediterranean Port City

October 25, 2019 This chapter draws on established theories of walking as “grounded” practice (de Certeau; Giard), together with recent methodologies for charting geographies of the senses (Springgay and Truman), to explore an... Read More

STREET FOOD IN BANGKOK AND HANOI: CONFLICTS OVER THE USES OF THE URBAN SPACE

October 21, 2019 The Street Food research project aims at investigating some challenges posed by street food vending, drawing upon 4 case studies: Bangkok, Hanoi, Chicago and Montpellier. This paper will present the cases of... Read More

Food for Thought: Some Reflections on Personal and Tamil Literary Engagement with Food and Life

October 2, 2019 Dr C S Lakshmi is an independent researcher in Women's Studies. She is a prolific Tamil writer of fiction under the pen name Ambai. Read More

Mapping Toronto's Foodways

November 12, 2019 As part of a SSHRC-supported research project on multicultural histories of Toronto’s cuisines, we have been mapping the city’s culinary infrastructure across the 19th and 20th centuries. Read More
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Lenore Newman: Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food. The Toronto Book Launch!

December 4, 2019 About this Event Read More

Shawarma Poutine: Arab Foodways in the Windsor/Detroit Borderlands

December 3, 2019 Virtually all North American border foodways literature focuses on the US Southwest, where an international boundary runs through an ethnic foodway. Read More

Imperial Coffee, Fascist Bananas: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941.

October 28, 2019 Food stood at the center of the Fascist project of occupation of Ethiopia and construction of the Italian Empire in East Africa (1935-1941). According to Fascist bio-political plans, surplus of Italian rural... Read More

Beyond Pojangmacha: Edae Food Carts and the Future of Seoul’s Social Gastronomy

October 9, 2019 Across Seoul, countless tented food stalls called pojangmacha (literally “covered wagon”) have for generations purveyed cheap, tasty fare into the wee hours of the night. Read More