CFP: Eat, Drink, and Be Hungry: Ireland and Consumption Eighth Annual Grian 
Irish Studies Conference
3-5 March 2006
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

Grian invites one page abstracts from scholars with an interest in Ireland 
from any field including history, literature, cultural studies, business, 
anthropology, etc., by October 15, 2005. Throughout Ireland's history, the 
rituals of food, drink and consumption have continued to play important, 
yet protean roles as Ireland's social fabric has changed. The spectrum 
between comestible scarcity and abundance at distinctive and extreme points 
in Ireland's history manifests itself through complicated cultural 
attitudes towards food. If a pint in Ireland is "the drink," Grian is 
interested in exploring the social rituals, cultural practices and enduring 
aspects of Ireland's comestible cultures at all points of its history. 
Papers that address the broad relation of food and consumption in Ireland 
and its diaspora may consider the following topics.

Food as emotion: comfort, desire, sex, nostalgia.
Food rituals and foodways: the Irish wake, pub culture, 'the drink,' tea 
drinking, Bewley's, Barry's.
Food scarcity and abundance: famine, trauma, economy.
Food extremes and health: eating disorders, overeating, well-being.
Food and prosperity: Darina Allen, haute cuisine in Ireland, authenticity
Food as business and commodity: from market to supermarket, Superquinn's, 
Guinness, Bachelor's beans.
Food from home: immigrants and Club Orange, Mi Wadi, Jacobs, Galtee sausage 
and bacon.
Food and home: the hearth, dwellings.
Food and geography: landscapes and seascapes, farming and fishing. Food and 
gender: providers of food; breastfeeding.
Food and the arts: literature, song, visual arts.
Oral fixation: Oral/Orality/Oral desire/Orature.
Consumption and class: commodification of consumption, Waterford, Belleek, 
consumerism, transnationalism, Celtic Tiger economy.

Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches are encouraged. Send 
abstracts to [log in to unmask] Queries may be addressed to Elizabeth 
Gilmartin: [log in to unmask] or Kerri Anne Burke: [log in to unmask]
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  Elizabeth Gilmartin
Dept. of English
Monmouth University
732-263-5695
Email: <mailto:egilmart@,monmouth.edu>egilmart@,monmouth.edu
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