Past Events at the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
June 2016
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Friday, June 24th B6 Roundtable: Washoku in Jeopardy? The cultural economy and future of Japanese cuisine
Date Time Location Friday, June 24, 2016 10:00AM - 11:30AM External Event, University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail
Humanities Wing HW 402Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Chair: Shingo Hamada, Osaka Shoin Women’s University
• Greg de St. Maurice, Ryukoku University
• Shingo Hamada
• Richard Wilk, Indiana University
• Takeshi Watanabe, Connecticut College
• Aiko Tanaka, Osaka Shoin Women’s UniversityAbout the conference:
The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is pleased to host the Joint 2016 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society; the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society; and the Canadian Association for Food Studies – the first time the three organizations have met together. The conference theme, “Scarborough Fare: Global Foodways and Local Foods in a Transnational City,” emphasizes the changing nature of food production, distribution, and consumption as people, goods, foods and culinary and agricultural knowledge move over long distances and across cultural and national borders. It explores the development of cities and their transnational marketplaces where new and old migrants, entrepreneurs and emerging migrant-origin middle classes settle in suburbs such as Scarborough, rather than in older downtown districts such as the historic Toronto Chinatown along Spadina. To understand global and local food systems, we must give due attention to migrants, whether from rural districts or from cities, for they have historically provided knowledge and labour necessary to feed societies, while also altering the foodways of long-time natives of the areas where they settle. We invite participants to examine the role of mobile people as workers, entrepreneurs, and innovators in agriculture, culinary infrastructure, and food preparation and consumption. Submissions may also consider the long distance movement of people, culinary knowledge, and foods as contributors to projects of colonization, sovereignty and creators of global inequalities. The conference will feature cultural events, art exhibits, and a banquet that highlight the diverse communities and cuisines of Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area. Students and emerging scholars in particular are invited to submit proposals for a pre-conference to be held on June 21 and sponsored by CAFS.Please RSVP to culinaria@utsc.utoronto.ca.
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