“How sweet are your words to my taste!”

Eating Food, Imbibing Drink, and Devouring Texts in the Middle Ages

Columbia Medieval Guild Conference

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Philosophy Hall, Columbia University

9:00am Registration and Breakfast

(301 Philosophy)

9:30am-10:45am Methodology Panel:

(301 Philosophy)

Moderator: Paul Strohm, English and Comp Lit, Columbia

Gil Anidjar, MEALAC, Columbia

Susan Boynton, Music, Columbia

Susan Crane, English and Comp Lit, Columbia

Steven Kruger, English, CUNY grad center

D. Vance Smith, English, Princeton

11:00am-12:15pm Morning Sessions:

Food and the East

(507 Philosophy) - Jessamine Buck, Carl Watson, and William Woys Weaver

Feasting

(612 Philosophy) - Chase Cryn Johannsen, Jeffrey Johnson, Ruth Lexton, and Mihai Cristian Bratu

1:30pm-2:45pm Keynote Address:

(301 Philosophy)

Professor Paul Freedman, Yale University

“The Allure of Spices and Medieval Culinary Principles”

3:00pm-4:15pm Afternoon Sessions:
Eucharist

(507 Philosophy) - Kathleen Smith, Adam Hooks, and Tovi Bibring

Food and Regulation

(612 Philosophy) - Karl Steel, Ellen Ketels, and Nicholas Jones

4:30pm-5:00pm Musical Performance – “Wine, Wassail, and Oysters: an early music feast."

(301 Philosophy)

(Sponsored by The Medieval Guild of Columbia University, GSAC (Columbia University’s Graduate Student Advisory Council), and Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature.)