Part of the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series:
CHINESE FOOD - Culture, Economy, Ecology
April 27, 8:30am-6:30pm, CGIS South Room S153
April 28, 8:30am-3:30pm, CGIS South Room S250
Organizer: Ling Zhang (Boston College); Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University)
Sponsors:
Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts
Conference Program
April 27, Friday
8:45-9:15 Opening
Ling Zhang (Boston College)
Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University)
Panel One: Food and Knowledge
9:30-10:15
E. N. Anderson (University of California, Riverside)
“Learning Is Like Chicken Feet: Medieval China Studies West Asian Foodways in the Emerging Asian World-system”
Abigail Coplin (Yale University)
“The East is ‘Scientific’: Scientists, the State, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy”
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Robban Toleno (Columbia University)
“Buddhists, Meat Analogues, and the History of Vegetarianism in China”
Discussion: Peter Perdue (Yale University)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Panel Two: Political Economy and Ecology
13:30-14:15
Mindi Schneider (Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities)
“Food and Power: A Food Regime Analysis of Contemporary China”
Mark Frank (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Food and Accommodation: Chinese Grain Governance in Eastern Tibet, 1908-1940”
Brendan A. Galipeau (Rice University)
“Free in the Mountains or Home in the Vineyard: Resisting Plantation Labor on a French Vineyard in Tibet through Valuable Fungi Collection”
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-18:30
Elizabeth Lord (Harvard University)
“Making Pollution Invisible — An Exploration of Soil Surveys in Contemporary China”
Alexander F. Day (Occidental College)
“The Political Economy of Socialist Food Production: The Work of Labor and Fertilizer on a State-Owned Tea Farm”
Discussion: Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College, 20 minutes)
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April 28, Saturday
Panel Three: Materiality, Culture, and Identity
9:00-9:45
Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)
“On Bird’s Nests and Bean Curds: Reflections on the Rise of Tofu Connoisseurship”
Caroline Merrifield (Yale University)
“Jiangnan Luxe”
9:45-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-12:00
Jin Feng (Grinnell College)
“The Battle of Noodles”
Benny Shaffer (Harvard University)
“Shapeshifting Fields: The Moving Image Work of Mao Chenyu”
Discussion: Eileen Chow (Duke University)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 General Discussion and Conclusion
See also: Economy, Symposia / Conference, Spring 2018, Economy and Policy
LOCATION:CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20180427T040000Z DTEND:20180428T040000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR