I may be a food cultural historian, but I have the ambition to moonlight as a wine writer and so I am thrilled for the opportunity to blend both by participating in my very first wine studies (!) workshop.
Hosted next week by the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, “Wine Place Space: Global Geographies of Wine Cultivation, Production, and Consumption” will discuss how global networks have swayed the spatial configurations of wine production in tandem with how such shifts shade how wine tangles with identities and imaginaries. My paper “Notes On Wine and Settler Colonialism, On Territory and Indigenous Land” will consider, on the one hand, how wine spreads selective ideas of culture and conquest and, on the other, how Indigenous wineries such as Nk’Mip Cellars have come to express long-standing relationships to their lands through a glass of pinot blanc or a bottle of merlot.