Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:58:37 +0100
From: rachwal <[log in to unmask]>
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Viands Wines and Spirits (Poland) (6/15; 9/22-9/23)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Viands, Wines, and Spirits. Nourishment and (In)Digestion in the Culture
of Literacy.
22-23 September 2000, Ustroń, Poland
For books are as meats and viands are, some of good, some of evill
substance; and yet God in that unapocryphall vision said without
exception, Rise, Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each mans
discretion. Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or
nothing from unwholsome; and best books to a naughty mind are not
unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good
nourishment in the healthiest concotion; but herein the difference is of
bad books ...
(John Milton, Areopagitica)
A global Macdonaldisation seems to be an actual rather than a virtual
reality. The rhetoric of eating and drinking, however, figures as a
largely unexplored terrain in cultural and critical studies. We invite
scholars from various academic disciplines to engage in the debate on a
broad spectrum of issues addressing possibly many aspects of EATING and
CONSUMING in contemporary culture. The ways food has become, at least in
some regions of the world, a matter of style are equally interesting for
us as the ways cultural products have become a matter of taste, sources
of intellectual or spiritual nourishment thus, for example, endowing the
spirit, the soul, at least with the body of a stomach which selectively
memorises what is worth cultural preservation in the body of knowledge
and history. We hope that the subject of the conference will inspire
many original, controversial, and diverse, though conclusive, thoughts
and arguments (not to mention recepies).
Please send enquires and/or proposals for papers (early submissions are
encouraged) to:
Professor Wojciech Kalaga: [log in to unmask]
or
Professor Tadeusz Rachwal: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2000
University of Silesia
Institute of British and American Culture and Literature
ul. Zytnia 10
41-205 Sosnowiec
Poland
tel./fax: +48 32 291 74 17
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