Stevinzaal, Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels
Tentative program (subject to change after open call for papers has been released)
July 1, 2015
Place: Stevinzaal, Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels
16:00-19:00
Introduction by Tine Walravens and Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University)
Keynote lecture by Eric Rath (University of Kansas):
“What is Traditional Japanese Food? — A Historical View of Washoku”
July 2, 2015
Place: Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels
9:00 – 10:00
Theorizing food and identity as cultural practices
- Nelleke Teughels “World exhibitions and the shaping and exploitation of a national cuisine for cultural expression and national typification” (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
10:00 – 12:00
Panel 1. Performing food culture
- Eric Rath “Obento and the Invention of Lunch in Modern Japan” (University of Kansas)
- Mitsuda Tatsuya “Snacking practices and confectionary identities in Japan, 1890-1935” (Keiô University)
- Helena Grinshpun “The Drink of the Nation? Coffee in Japan’s culinary culture” (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 -15:00
Panel 2. Food Identities Inside-Out (A)
- Timothy Y. H. Tsu “Branding and Heritage-izing Chinese food in Japan” (Kwansei Gakuin University)
- Ono Junichi “Islam and the culinary context of Japan” (Toyo University)
15:30 – 17:00
Panel 2: Food Identities Inside-Out (B)
- Kateryna Bugayevska: Beijing Obento: The popularization of Japanese food in Beijing (Xiamen University)
- Jutta Teuwsen: Eating Japanese – Being Japanese: Ethnic Food in Hawaii (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf)
July 3, 2015
Place: Royal Flemish Academy Brussels
9:00 -12:00
Panel 3: Food identities
- Andreas Niehaus ““Healthy food: Ideologizing Edo-period cuisine in the Yôjôkun” (Ghent University)
- Dick Stegewerns Deconstructing ‘Kokushu’ – The Promotion of Sake as Japan’s National Alcohol Drink in Times of Crisis in the Sake Industry (University of Oslo)
- Stephanie Assmann “Containing Globalization through Food Education: The Return to a National Cuisine in Japan”
(Hokkaido University)
LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:30
Panel 4. Performing the nation (A)
- Walravens Tine, Hanno Jentzsch “Consuming the nation. Converging interests for the local and the national behind the chisan chisho campaign” (Ghent University, Universität Duisburg Essen)
- Paul O’Shea “Import-dependency and the future of food security in Japan” (Aarhus University)
- Felice Farina: “Japan in the International Food Regimes: Understanding Japanese Food Self-Sufficiency Decline” (University of Naples “L’Orientale)
15:00 -17:00
Panel 4. Performing the nation (B)
- Kimura Aya “School lunch after the Fukushima nuclear accident: politics of science and gendered publics” (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
- Takeda Hiroko “A national Solidarity of Food Risks: Food Practice and Nationalism in post-3/11 Japan” (University of Tokyo)
- Maya Hey: A Qualitative Study on Food Procurement And Food Production in a Post-Fukushima Food System in Japan (University of Gastronomic Sciences (Italy)
- Cornelia Reiher “Who defines what the Japanese should eat? Food education revisited after 3.11” (FU Berlin)
17:00-19:00
Final Discussion