Event Postponed
The following lecture has been postponed due to illness. It has not been rescheduled
at this time.
DURHAM, N.H. -- The University of New Hampshire welcomes Carole Counihan, professor
of anthropology and director of women's studies at Millersville
University (Penn.), who will speak Tuesday, March 28, 2006, about
her new book, Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and
Gender in Twentieth-Century Florence (Routledge, 2004). Her talk is
free and open to the public.
The discussion takes place from 1 to 2 p.m. in Murkland Hall, Room 115. Her talk will address issues involving the anthropology and ethnography of food and eating -- especially issues of commensality, community, and identity -- in a traditional Italian family in Florence that is coping with the pressures of modernization and globalization.
Coeditor of the journal Food and Foodways, Counihan conducts research primarily on food, gender, and culture, with her fieldwork focused mainly on Florence, Italy. She is the author of The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power (Routledge, 1999), the editor of Food in the USA (Routledge, 2002), and the coeditor of the volumes Food and Culture (Routledge, 1997) and Food and Gender: Identity and Power (Gordon & Breach, 1998).
The event is sponsored by the Italian Program; the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; the College of Liberal
Arts; the Center for the Humanities; the Center for International
Education; the Discovery Program; the Department of Animal and
Nutritional Sciences; and the Office of Sustainability Programs.