2008-2009 LIBERAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES

You Are What You Eat: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Food

All colloquium events take place from 4:30 - 6:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge on the 3rd floor of Armitage Hall on the Rutgers-Camden campus. They are free and open to all.

FALL 2008

“Talking with Texts: A Folklorist’s Encounter with Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks” 

Janet Theophano, University of Pennsylvania (emerita)

Tuesday
October 21

"The Seed to Table Movement: An Outline of  Today's Growing Food Revolution"

Christine Evans, Director of Development, Haley House, Boston

"What's Love Got To Do With It?  How Romance Affects Eating Behaviors and Body Image"

Charlotte Markey, Rutgers University (Camden)

"Old Macdonald has no Farm: Agribusiness Ruinations and the New Fight for Food Sovereignty"

Hansjakob Werlen, Swarthmore College

"Children's Food and the Provisioning of Meaning: Commerce, Care and Maternal Practice"

Dan Cook, Rutgers University (Camden)

"'Food Animals': How Animal Advocates have used the Law to Promote the Ethical Treatment of Selected Species"

Sheila Rodriquez, Rutgers University (Law)

For further information or directions:

Professor Stuart Charmé, Program director
856-225-6237 or scharme@camden.rutgers.edu

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