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 =============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List [log in to unmask] Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: [log in to unmask] ===============================================