Food and Body in Colonial Contexts

Next week I am most looking forward to participating in the workshop “Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-Modern Times.”

Hosted by the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg, it will bring together scholars of colonialism and food focused on different regions of the world. Furthermore, it aims to enable exchange and development of methodologies and concepts of dietary cultural encounters in colonial settings and to broaden the scope of existing research to incorporate less studied regions.

I will present the paper “‘Baked Alaska’: Culinary Borders and Muktuk in the North American Arctic,” which considers what I call the politics of delicacies and the history of whale meat as a colonial encounter.

More information and the workshop program are available here.