Seminars
Comparative Social and Cultural History
Seminar 2011-12
Food
Seminars are held fortnightly in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College at 8.30 p.m.
All welcome
Peter Burke (Emmanuel)
Melissa Calaresu (Caius)
Mary Laven (Jesus)
Ulinka Rublack (St John’s)
Michaelmas
11 October 2011
Cooking to survive and cooking to impress: From the economic to the cultural history of food
PETER BURKE (Emmanuel)
25 October
Food in early modern Europe: Inquisition, Reformation, and social history
CHRISTOPHER KISSANE (Balliol College, Oxford)
8 November
Economic cuisine in eighteenth-century Paris
EMMA SPARY (Corpus)
22 November
Eating the New World
REBECCA EARLE (Warwick)
Lent
24 January 2012
The taste of colors: Doctors and dietary theories in Renaissance Italy
ALLEN GRIECO (Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
7 February
The‘wigg’ interpretation of history? Food and collective identities in pre-modern England
SARA PENNELL (Roehampton University)
21 February
LIZZIE COLLINGHAM, author of Curry: a tale of cooks and conquerors and The Taste of War: World War II and the battle for food will speak about her approach to ‘History through Food’
6 March
Medieval cuisine and seasonality
PAUL FREEDMAN (Yale)
For a printable version of this programme, please see below or e-mail Rebecca Owens in the Faculty of History (ro264@cam.ac.uk).
- Upcoming Events
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May 22, 2012
The John Robert Seeley Lectures & Seminar
The Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge
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News
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Jan 17, 2012
Professor Alexandra Walsham wins the Leo Gershoy Award 2011
from the American Historical Association
Nov 27, 2011
Professor David Abulafia awarded the Mountbatten Literary Award
by the Maritime Foundation