L. Sasha Gora

Upcoming

• Cooking the Books: A Culinary Conversation about Archives, Climate Histories, and Canned Futures with Penelope Volinia and Philine Schiller, the European Society for Environmental History 2025 “Climate Histories” Conference, Uppsala University, August 19–22, 2025, Uppsala, Sweden

• Split, Salted, and Staged, “The Built Ocean” EAHN Thematic Conference, September 10–13, 2025, Porto, Portugal

• Tongues and their Mothers, Ingredients and their Understudies, “Recipes and Gastronomy as Cultural Heritage: Meaning, Methodology, and Media,” University of Gastronomic Sciences, October 22–25, 2025, Pollenzo, Italy

• Colonial Codscapes Between Puerto Rico, New England, and Atlantic Canada, the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, “Late Stage American Empire?” November 20–22, 2025, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Past

2025

• No Reservations: Restaurants and the Politics of Representation, Dr. Helen A. Gibson’s “Asian American Studies” Seminar, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, June 18, 2025, Germany

• Sensing Species, Writing Worlds with Maya Hey, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) 2025 Conference “Unwriting,” University of Aberdeen, June 3–6, 2025, Aberdeen, Scotland

• Two Empires, One Fish, “Colonialism, Colonial Legacy, and Environmental Crisis: History and Memory” International Colloquium, Universidade de Coimbra, May 28–29, 2025, Portugal

• Eating with the Trouble: Writing Appetites and their Worlds, GAFS Edible Dialogues, April 24, 2025, Online

• Plate to Planet with Bruno Borsari, Paul Manning, and Amanda Shankland, the “Sustainable Diets Webinar Series,” Dalhousie University, April 14, 2025, Online

• Time and Microbes, Tides and Bodies, INLAND Academy, Dambach-la-Ville, France, April 12, 2025

• Culinary Claims, the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk Series, March 24, 2025, Online

• Rock, Fish, and Futures, the 46th Annual Conference of the Canadian Studies Association in German-speaking Countries: “The North,” February 26–March 1, 2025, Berlin, Germany

• Fresh Fish and Old Salt, “Food System Temporalities” Conference, University of Cambridge, January 9–10, 2025, Cambridge, England

2024

• A Line on the Tongue, the Culture & International History VII Conference “Uncertain Boundaries in International History,” Freie Universität Berlin, December 12–14, 2024, Berlin, Germany

• Codscapes, Found & Lost, the Culinaria Research Centre, University of Toronto, October 23, 2024, Toronto, Canada

• Fishery Food Circle with Timothy Charles, Jason Murphy, and Fogo Island growers and fishers, “Shore Time,” Fogo Island Arts, September 27, 2024, Newfoundland, Canada

• Storying Salicornia: Cuisines, Coastlines, and Salty Futures with Anna Antonova, the 4th Congress of Environmental History, University of Oulu, August 19–23, 2024, Oulu, Finland

• Atlantic Appetites: A Culinary Conversation with L. Sasha Gora and Rafram Chaddad, “Water & Sound Festival der Kulturen,” August 2, 2024, Augsburg, Germany

• Tuna Troubles, the European Association of Social Anthropologists 2024 Conference: “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology,” University of Barcelona, July 23–26, 2024, Barcelona, Spain

• Caribbean Turtles, Spanish Sherry, and the Paradoxes of British Imperial Fare, the Umbra Institute’s “Food and Hybridity” Biennial Conference, June 13–16, 2024, Perugia, Italy

• From Common to Can: The Rise and Fall of Global Tuna, the 2024 AFHVS–ASFS Conference “Rights to Food, Food as Commons” Syracuse University, June 5–8, 2024, Syracuse, United States

• Codscapes and Culinary Knots, the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 20 May 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

• The Oyster that Got Away, the “Images, Sound, and Performance As Ways of Knowing” Workshop, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, March 4–8, 2023, Venice, Italy

• Notes On Wine and Settler Colonialism, On Territory and Indigenous Land, “Wine, Place, and Space: Global Geographies of Wine Cultivation, Production, and Consumption” Workshop, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, February 22–23, 2024, Eichstätt, Germany

• A Cuisine and its Formulas: Recipes, Time, and Culinary Ghosts Guest Seminar, the University of Gastronomic Sciences, February 8–9, 2024, Pollenzo, Italy

2023

• To Steal a Fish: Cod Tales and Colonial Knots, “Stories Come to Matter: Water, Food, and Other Entanglements” Conference, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, December 4–5, 2023, Venice, Italy

• Old Salt and Fresh Fish: Introducing the Culinary Environmental Humanities, The Green Hour, the University of Augsburg, October 26, 2023, Augsburg, Germany

• Streams and Floods, Ripples and Flows: Towards A Bluer Humanities,“Water Cultures / Cultures de l’Eau” Workshop at the University of Augsburg, October 5–7, 2023, Augsburg, Germany

• “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”: Rewriting Canadian Colonial History at the 2019 Toronto Biennale, the “Art as Public History Panel” together with Egemen Özbek, Marissa Petrou, and Fateme Rezai, the Virtual National Council for Public History Conference “To Be Continued,” October 4–6, 2023, Atlanta, Georgia (online)

• Turtle Soup: The Ghost of Appetites Past, “Extinction, Endangerment, and Environmental Storytelling” Workshop at the University of Stavanger, September 13–14, 2023, Stavanger, Norway

• Pits, Scars, and Swimming Holes, “Misplacing Matter? Vertical Practices and (Hi)stories of Space and Power” Workshop at the University of Augsburg, September 6–8, Augsburg, Germany

• “Making Fish”: Recipes and the Construction of Culinary Geography, Towards a Food Atlas, NO-CITY Summer School, Università Iuav di Venezia, August 30, 2023, Venice, Italy

• Best Before: Time and Other Ingredients, Lifetimes Conference, University of Oslo, August 9–11, 2023, Oslo, Norway

• What to Eat in Times of Perpetual Crisis Workshop with Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán, der Neue Berliner Kunstverein, June 29, 2023, Berlin, Germany

• Virtual Round Table: Chefs as Drivers of Sustainability, the Association for the Study of Food and Society’s Conference “Knowing Food,” May 31, 2023, Boston, USA (online)

• Eating Ecologies: Preface to a Picnic Workshop, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, May 31, 2023, Oslo, Norway

• Cod and its Oil, Cuisine and its Supplements, “Global Fat Resources: Connecting Themes, Approaches and Narratives, ca. 1850–2022” Workshop, University of Bergen, May 23–24, 2023, Bergen, Norway

• Cuisine, Culture, Climate, and the Future of Food, “Food, Energy, Water, Migration Nexus and SDGS” Round table, Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile, May 17, 2023, Rome, Italy (online)

• Baked Alaska: Culinary Borders and Muktuk in the North American Arctic, “Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600–1900)” Workshop, Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), May 4–6, 2023, Regensburg, Germany

• Cooking in Circles, “International Symposium: Circularity,” Seoul National University, Institute for Culture and Arts, March 3, 2023, Seoul, the Republic of Korea

• Appetites and Other Ghosts, ColloKWlum, das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen, January 25, 2023, Essen, Germany

2022

• Down the Wrong Way: Toward an Environmental History of Cuisine as part of Wheatscapes and Culinary Ghosts, Delfina Foundation, December 14, 2022, London, England

• Polyphonic Bodies II with Erin Li and Songsoo Kim, Asymmetry Art Foundation, December 10, 2022, London, England

• Salt Stains: Appetite and Extinction, The Delfina Sessions, Radio Alhara, October 18, 2022

• Where is the Planetary? Haus der Kulturen der Welt, October 14–16, 2022, Berlin, Germany

• A Cuisine of its Own: Culinary Colonialism in Canada, Food History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, October 6, 2022, London, England (online)

• Kiss the Cod: Cuisine and Crisis, “After the Crisis? Rethinking Processes and Potentials of Change in Environment and Society” Methodological Workshop, the Rachel Carson Center in cooperation with the University of Heidelberg, July 22–23, 2022, Munich, Germany

• Unbordering a Movement: Indigenous Chefs and State Lines, Umbra’s Biennial Conference on Food, Sustainability, & Environment, June 9–12, 2022, Perugia, Italy

• “The Bitter Taste of Extinction”: Writing the Environmental Crisis Through Food, the American Society for Environmental History 2022 Conference, March 23–27, 2022, Eugene, Oregon, USA

• A Seat at the Table: Food in America and American Food in the World, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, January 26, 2022, Kaiserslautern, Germany (online)

• Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment, ColloKWlum, das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen, January 19, 2022, Essen, Germany (online)

2021

• Venice is Leaking: Interventions in the Lagoon-City Continuum, Anthropocene Campus Venice, October 11–16, 2021, Venice, Italy (co-organizer)

• Planting a Menu: An Edible Essay, “STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities” at KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, August 3–6, 2021, Stockholm, Sweden (online) 

• Culinary Conflicts: Memory, Indigenous Restaurants, and Cultural Encounters, the Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, “Convergences,” July 5–9, 2021, University of Warsaw, Poland (online) 

• Venetian Water Colours, the Urban Environments Initiative Conference, “Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban,” June 30–July 2, 2021, Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, Munich, Germany (online)

• Ciacoe in Tocio: Ideas, Conversations, and Sauces for Eating with the Lagoon, OCEAN SPACE, Venice, June 20, 2021

• The Tourist Trap: Culinary Imaginations of Venice, the Association for the Study of Food and Society’s Conference, “Just Food—because it is never just food,” June 9–15, 2021 (online)

• Happy as a Clam: Clichés, Climate, and Cuisine, the Environmental Humanities and Lecture Series V at the Humanities & Social Change Center at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, May 28, 2021 (online)

• “Sad ol’ mush’”: The Poetics and Politics of Porridge in Residential Schools in Canada, “Food and/in Children’s Culture: National, International and Transnational Perspectives,” April 6–9, 2021, at Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy (online)