DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
DELHI-110007
INDIA
Culinary
Routes/ Roots
2-3 November 2016
Call for Papers
What
are the implications involved in making sense of food today? Commensality,
consumption taboos and culinary literature that surround food practices and
cultural history function as markers of the identity of individuals and
communities. Grand narratives on the subject are more likely to render identity
fragile rather than robust, and often need interrogation themselves. Food, even
when relegated to the realm of the everyday, manifests its presence and
pressures in complicated ways. Given this reality, can food or even the
language and literature surrounding food be taken for granted?
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This
conference aims to address literature, popular media and culture and the
symbolic or metaphorical engagement with food inscribed within. In this
context, the questions evoked are many:
- Why
is food central to language, literature and cultural modes of existence? How
does one account for its representation? Is it merely the given or does it
become a symbol or metaphor evoking epiphanies?
·
How does representation of
food impact our existence and what are its links to identity – personal,
collective, religious, regional and national? Can consumption of food as
represented in various ways be read as consumption of culture?
·
Can language capture the nuances associated
with food such as taste, flavour and fragrance and its inevitable link to
memories? Is it possible to imagine food which one has not tasted, Ambrosia,
for instance? Do we relish the imagined
food or that which we eat? How do we
understand the ways in which this sensory experience is translated into a play
with space and time?
The
possibilities pertaining to these questions may be explored under the following
heads, which are indicative but not restrictive.
Imagining,
translating, visualising and performing the experience of food
Can
the subaltern eat?
Gastronomical
Gendering
Globalization
and Gastro-anomie
Ambrosia:
Food for the Gods/Goddesses
Hunting
Games to Hunger Games: Detours and Deconstructions
Please submit abstracts of no more than
300 words, institutional affiliation, and a/v needs by the firm deadline of 16
September 2016 to dufoodconf2016@gmail.com
. Notification of
acceptance will be sent via e-mail by 27 September 2016.
Registration Fees
Faculty Members: Rs. 1000/-
Independent Scholars/Researchers: Rs.
700/-
Students: Rs. 200/-
Important Dates
16 September 2016: Submission of abstracts
27 September 2016: Notification of acceptance
12 October 2016: Last
date for registration
2-3
November
2016: Conference
Conference Committee
Swetha Antony (Convenor)
Advisory Committee Members
Raj Kumar
Ira
Raja
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