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University College LondonFriday, 7 September 2012 at 09:30 - Saturday, 8 September 2012 at 17:30 (BST)London, United Kingdom |
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Event Details
Feasting is the most resonant and powerful of all social practices in the Pacific Island region. Now as in the past, feasts are at the centre of Pacific society, serving as the arenas for the display of hierarchy, status and power; the negotiation of loyalty and alliances; the enacting of competition; the creation and consolidation of identity and the performance of public rituals that link the social and the political, the sacred and the secular. Both feasts and famines represent a research theme where ecology and economy meet, and where patterns of provisioning and consumptions, and resultant health and environmental aspects, manifest themselves.
This two day conference is organised by the newly established UCL Pacific Islands Research Network responds to the widening interest in the political, economic, cultural and health dimensions of feasting, food production and famine in the Pacific. This conference aims to provide a platform for more engaged dialogue between archaeology, anthropology, history, ecology, economics, epidemiology, health and medical studies, and food studies and the social and historical sciences more broadly.
The conference will present vanguard work in anthropological, archaeological, historical, literary, environmental and medical research, and discuss how it can contribute to a better understanding of society, health and food security in the Pacific islands – past, present and future.
Papers from this conference will be published in a book on Food Culture in the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
This conference is kindly sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology (UCL) and the Mellon Foundation.
Conference Programme
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9.15-9.45 |
Arrival and registration. |
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9.45-10.00 |
Introduction to conference |
(Kaori O’Connor and Sarah Byrne).
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Session 1: Pacific Foodways Today |
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10.00-10.30 |
Pineapple and the Invention of ‘Polynesian’ Cuisine |
Kaori O’Connor, University College London |
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10.30-11.00 |
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Ulf Dahre, Lund University, Sweden. |
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11.00-11.30 |
Coffee Break |
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11.30- 12.00 |
Soy Sauce and Coconut Milk-The Effects of Colonialism and Globalisation of Guamanianfoodways. |
Danielle Ceribo, Boston University |
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12.00-12.30 |
Slow Manava: The Metaphysical Ins & Outs of Food Culture in Tonga |
Andy Mills, University of East Anglia |
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12.30-1.00 |
Discussion |
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1.00- 2.00 |
Lunch |
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Session 2: Food as Technology and Process |
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2.00- 2.30 |
Eating Sociology? Tubers as paradigms among the Abelam of Papua New Guinea (and beyond?)
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Ludovic Coupaye, University College London
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2:30-3:00 |
Technological styles of cooking and feast food: the case of Northern Vanuatu
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Yoko Nojima, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
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3:00- 3:30 |
Eating for the House: Technical processes of food production, social efficacy and gender in the context of house building on Mere Lava, Vanuatu.(TBC)
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Marie Durand, University of East Anglica
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3:30- 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4:00- 4:30 |
Nourishing gardens facing catastrophe |
Maëlle Calandra, EHESS-CREDO |
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4:30-5:00 |
Discussion |
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5:00- 8.00 |
Drinks and Luau Party |
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DAY 2 Saturday 8th September
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Session 3: Landscapes of Feasting |
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9.30- 10.00 |
Feasting in a nutshell? Reflections of past social practices in Island Melanesia |
Jim Specht, Australian Museum, Sydney; Carol Lentfer, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Peter Matthews, The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. |
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10.00-10.30 |
Chasing chickens: feasting, food ritual and food deprivation on prehistoric and proto-historic Rapa Nui (Easter Island) |
Sue Hamilton, University College London
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10.30-11.00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Hereanee, Whatta; Duludulumata,Nevsem, Haraki Stages, et al- Is there a Pacific Connection to Feasting Platforms? |
Jocelyne Dudding, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge |
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11.30-12.00 |
Discussion |
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Session 4: Food, Exchange and Identity |
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12.00-12.30 |
Ceremonial Chop Suey and Value Shift in Fiji
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Matti Eräsaari, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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12.30-1.00 |
Pudding Politics: Banks Islands' Museum Collections Reconsidered |
Sarah Byrne, University College London |
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1:00- 2.00 |
Lunch |
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2.00-2.30 |
Pig-Killing and distribution as an arena of social construction
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Samuel Haihuie (Open College, Papua New Guinea) and LinusDi'igimrina
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2.30-3:00 |
Eating the Exotic: food on the voyages of Captain Cook: creating an exhibition on historic food cultures of the Pacific |
Sophie Forgan, Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby.
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3.00-3.30 |
Discussion |
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3:30-4.00 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 5 Food, Health and Embodiment |
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4.00-4.30 |
Food Insecurity that Feeds Feasting: Children’s Foodways in Vanuatu
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Chelsea Wentworth, University of Pittsburgh
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4.30-5.00 |
Preserve or feast, save or spend? Rhythms of eating in the Republic of Nauru |
Amy McLennan- University of Oxford |
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5:00-5.30 |
Discussion about Book Proposal |
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When & Where
Room 612 Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
WC1H 0PY London
United Kingdom
Friday, 7 September 2012 at 09:30 - Saturday, 8 September 2012 at 17:30 (BST)
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