Kitchens in Conflict: Eating the Enemy: Postcolonial Research Group Guest Presenter Anita Mannur
<p> <font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Please join the Postcolonial Research Group, the Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Media Park, the Virginia Beach Center of Higher Education, and the College of Arts and Letters on Wednesday, November 13 to welcome Dr. Anita Mannur as she virtually presents a lecture titled "Kitchens in Conflict: Eating the Enemy" to be delivered via WebEX from 7:10-8:40 pm.<br /> <br /> She will discuss the way in which the figure of the “enemy” in contrast to the notion of “comfort food” is constructed by using social media, cookbooks and food trucks that are devoted to the dissemination of culinary knowledge. knowledge. Her research takes her into the exploration of the realm of which cuisines are considered “unpalatable” within a culture of militaristic imperialism and the cultural spaces and narratives in which the figure of the “enemy combatant” is reimagined. Some of the sites she examines are a Chicago based performance art installation called “Enemy Kitchen,” the Gaza cookbook and Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh, PA. Conflict Kitchen reformats the preexisting social relations of food and economic exchange to engage the general public in discussions about cultures, and people that they might know little about outside of the polarizing rhetoric of U.S. politics and the narrow lens of media headlines by showcasing cuisines only of the nations with which the US is directly engaged in war. This work suggests that the culinary, an emerging theoretical space within the purview of transnational American studies, offers important ways to think about empire, territory and gender.<br /> <br /> Anita Mannur is Associate Professor of English and Asian /Asian American Studies at Miami University. She is the author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture and co-editor of Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader.<br /> <br /> Gornto has offered a meeting space for main campus participants. VBHEC will also offer an on-campus space for participants there. The link to join the session will be posted at the following address, along with further details about meeting sites and requirements:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://webmail.odu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=hkcoLV6HmUC-wNxxO5DOSf897uM6sdAI-fkaBmiSEC_EPXMEaX433BzwPNVXP5LTqX4PMkb_Bug.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediapark.digitalodu.com%2f2013%2f11%2f04%2fguest-lecture-kitchens-in-conflict-anita-mannur%2f" target="_blank">http://mediapark.digitalodu.com/2013/11/04/guest-lecture-kitchens-in-conflict-anita-mannur/</a></span></font></p> <p> <font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The event flyer is attached: please feel free to disseminate widely. We look forward to a stimulating--and appetizing--discussion!</span></font></p>
Posted By: Delores Phillips
Date: Sat Nov 09 18:55:49 EST 2013