Fall 2002

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FOOD AND THE MORAL ORDER
This series of papers will showcase recent research in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Food Studies. The papers address the ways that ethical questions about food, culture, and society have been posed historically and are being posed today, highlighting the tensions between prescriptive codes and social practices regarding foodstuffs and eating.

October 10		Conspicuous Cuisine: Culinary Production in the 21st Century Priscilla Ferguson Sociology, Columbia University
October 31		Kashrut: Women as Gatekeepers of Jewish Identity Ruth Abusch-Magder Religious Studies, Yale University
November 7		"Fifty Thousand Pigs Can’t Be Wronged!": Human-Animal Relations in Shanghai, 1885–1940 Mark Swislocki Society of Fellows

SOCIETY OF FELLOWS ALUMNI SPEAKERS
With this series the Society of Fellows is initiating a new tradition, inviting past members of the Society, to foster an on going dialogue between Junior and more Senior researches across the vast fields of the Humanities discipline.

October 17		Memory in Literature and Neuroscience: An Interdisciplinary Approach Suzanne Nalbantian English and Comparative Literature, Long Island University
October 24		Crime, Sin and Social Justice in the Early 20th Century: Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer on Jonathon Edwards Linda Przybyszewski History, University of Cincinnati

FILM MUSIC AND ITS PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
This series of events brings to campus composers, film scholars, critics, and musicologists to discuss film music as a contested area of artistic and professional struggle, a paradigm of cliché-ridden mass culture, and a privileged vantage point for a reassessment of key questions in the philosophy of music.

November 14		Modernist Dishonor: Music between Cipher and Performance Carolyn Abbate Music, Princeton University
November 21		Bad Film Music: Reflections on the Cliché Giorgio Biancorosso Society of Fellows