The Gastropeotics of Asian/America symposium is a two-day hybrid event that interrogates how forms of racial and gendered intimacies are mediated through food and eating cultures. Postcolonial feminist scholar Parama Roy theorized “gastropoetics” as an analytic for how food and eating map a sensorial experience of history, place, and colonial ordering alongside ways diasporic and migrant communities engage in their own sense-making.
This symposium turns to the visceral and mundane to ask: how does Asian/America make, break, and find itself through appetites and food storying? How do Asian/American and diasporic reflections on food, eating, and feeding illuminate the historical and contemporary formations of migration, war, hygienic form, and empire? What new or forgotten sensations might we uncover when engaging with Asian/American and diasporic food production and eating practices?
Schedule
Thursday
5:20pm -Welcome remarks
5:30pm -"Intimate Eating: Food in Asian/ America" by Dr. Anita Mannur (talk)
6:30pm - Reception
Friday
12pm- Opening remarks
12:10pm– “Dirty Dining? The Chinese Roast Duck Bill, Food, and Public Health in Asian America” by Dr. Mark Padoongpatt
1pm- Lunch
2pm – The Politics and Poetics of Kimjang: A workshop with Dr. Margaret Rhee
3:30pm –Roundtable discussion
Take home dinners provided!
Hosted by the Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program & convened by Dr. Athia N. Choudhury.