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“The use of food and cuisine as an instrument
\nto create a cross- cultural understanding
\nin the hopes of improving interactions and cooperation”
\n(Chapple-Sokol\, 2012)
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Food is not only a vital part of our lives\, representing his tory\, traditions\, and culture\, but food can also be used as an instrume nt to create cross-cultural understanding. In fact\, food is the base of e very society and at the same time it is a tool to communicate ideas\, valu es\, identities\, and attitudes. Consequently\, the topic of food brings t ogether issues of economics\, politics\, nationality\, family\, and religi on. For us\, food is both a weapon and a blanket\, a control and a protest tool. Moreover\, besides food being a focal point for public policy makin g\, social activism\, and cultural mobilization\, we perceive food to have the ability to both create and dismantle boundaries. At the same time\, w e are aware that the preparation\, sharing\, and consuming of food play an important role regarding relations among society’s members\, as a nation and its culture are defined by the meals that people consume and the peopl e who eat those cuisines. In our workshop\, we therefore want to investiga te the inherent (cultural\, social\, and political) power of Asian food in a global context.
\nIn the context of Asian food\, there is nothing new about its beginning of globalization with the European colonization o f Asia. Since that time\, Asian food and foodstuff spread among the people of colonial powers – such as soy\, ginger\, and rice. And in the last cou ple decades\, Asian food and cuisines even became global culinary trends ( Farber 2015)\, sought after for their exciting “exoticism”\, and even symb olizing exclusiveness.
\nIn our understanding\, Asian societies’ emp hasis on food is conspicuously greater than in the “West” as the power of food is involved in more aspects of life: Food-focused activities and know ledge occupy greater portion of daily activities\, incl. religious aspects such as food symbolism and food offerings in general.
\nBy tracing Asian food both inside and outside of Asia\, in course of this workshop\, we want to explore the power of food in regard to the relationship between food and religious rituals\, between food and identity construction\, as well as on food in international politics.
\nThis international work shop aims at bringing together the expertise of scholars of various discip lines whose work focuses on the various power-related topics in terms of A sian food.
\nInterested scholars are encouraged to submit an abstrac t (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English\, unt il October 29\, 2021.
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Organizers:
\nUte Wallenböck \, Dep. of Chinese Studies\, Masaryk University\, Brno: 244108@mail.muni.c z
\nVeronika Zikmundová\, Institute of Asian Studies\, Charles Unive rsity\, Prague: avanek2000@yahoo.com
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This page will be u pdated in due time. Last update: October 19\, 2021.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211211 LOCATION:Charles University\, Prague & online SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:International hybrid workshop on “Asian Food and Power in a Global Context” URL:https://uas.ff.cuni.cz/udalost/international-hybrid-workshop-on-asian-f ood-and-power-in-a-global-context/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR