AAS 2025 Annual Conference: call for panelists
Topic: Asian Food: Culture, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
Abstract submission deadline: July 22, 2024
Contact: Dixuan Chen <chenyuji@grinnell.edu>
In-person presentations at the AAS 2025 Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio, March 13 to March 16.
We invite submissions of paper abstracts for the panel “Asian Food: Culture, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.” We encourage studies from diverse academic disciplines, transregional studies, and studies of local food cultures (China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc.).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- How does food consumption construct the collective memory of a cultural, religious, or social community?
- Asian food choices and eating habits in the contexts of culture, society, philosophy, politics, and religious beliefs.
- The concepts, values, and practices of taboo, purity, and spirituality in Asian diets.
- The symbols of food, ingredients, and other edible materials.
- Eating and identity.
- Ethical food and sustainability.
- Fasting and abstinence from food for health, ritualistic, religious, or ethical purposes.
Paper abstracts (250 words) and a short biography or CV should be sent to the panel organizer Dixuan Chen, Grinnell College, chenyuji@grinnell.edu by July 22, 2024 (Eastern Standard Time). Communication will be in English. Files should be sent as PDF or Word documents (doc or docx).
Contact the panel organizer with any questions at chenyuji@grinnell.edu