Text Box: 4th Biennial Colloquium on the Americas: Food & Foodways in the Americas Text Box: Friday, April 13, 2012—Mercyhurst University Campus 6:00-7:00 Reception and registration in Lobby of Taylor Little Theater 7:00-8:00 Keynote Speaker Laura Schenone in Taylor Little Theater Saturday, April 14, 2010—Mercyhurst University Campus 8:00-8:30 Registration breakfast in Mercy Heritage Hall 8:30-4:45 Colloquium Panel Sessions All sessions to take place in Sullivan Hall (adjacent to Mercy Heritage Hall) 8:30-9:45 Session I: Foodways as Hegemony Moderator: Dr. Carlos Munoz “Efficiency And Deficiency: Technology And Its Influence On Taste, Talk And Cuisine In The US” Dr. Sayantan Biswas, Independent Scholar “Gringo vs. Jíbaro: US Food Imperialism, Puerto Rico and ‘the better diet’” Ian Michalski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Austin Michalski, RD, LDN, Pediatric Nutrition Fellow at Children’s Hospital Boston “Plow Lines and Progress: American Imperialism in Foodways from True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia to Heifer International” Dr. Lindgren Johnson, Missouri University of Science and Technology 10:00-11:00 Session II: Cultural Biases in American Foodways Moderator: Dr. Mary Ann Owoc “Identity Creation through Traditional Food Consumption at the Lucha Libres” Amanda Tollefson; New York University “Turkey Trots: A Journey of the Ancient Puebloans (Anasazis) in Search for Feasts and Rituals” Keiko Miller, Mercyhurst University 11:10-12:30 Session III: Foodways and the Arts Moderator: Dr. Juan Argaez “Food in the work of Chilean Avant-Garde Writers” Dr. Soledad Traverso, Penn State-Erie, The Behrend College “Tania Bruguera and Feeding the Body in Cuba” Dr. Alice Edwards, Mercyhurst University “On Feeding the Soul” Jose Otero, Featured Artist 12:30-2:00 Lunch –Egan Hall Faculty Dining Room 2:00-3:15 Session III: Teaching Language and Culture through Corn, A Seneca Heritage Food Moderator: Dr. Joanne McGurk Sandy Dowdy, Seneca Nation of Indians Autumn Crouse, Seneca Nation of Indians Melissa Borgia, The Pennsylvania State University 3:30-4:45 Session IV: Reverence Moderator: Dr. Chris Magoc “Wine of Redemption: A Second Generation Italian Continues a Wine Making Tradition” Gino J. Pasi, Wright State University “Venison As Communion: Religious Reflections On 21st-Century Human-Deer Relationships” Dr. Nancy Menning, Ithaca College “Heritage Killing: Intimacies of Animal Death and the Ethical Elisions of the New American Local Food/Farming Movements” Dr. Cory Shaman; Arkansas Tech University Text Box:

Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Food and 

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Writing, 2004

Questions?

Contact one of the Colloquium on the Americas committee members: Christina Riley-Brown (chair), Alice Edwards, Doug Boudreau and Juan Argaez