Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier

International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)

Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier American University of Beirut 12-14 May 2016

SESSION 7:

SESSION 3:

Food and Gender

Body

SESSION 1:

SESSION 5:

Food and Social Status

Abstention

The conference is a project of the AGYA Working Group Common Heritage and Common Challenges and is organized by: Kirill Dmitriev (St Andrews), Julia Hauser (Kassel), and Bilal Orfali (Beirut).

SESSION 4:

Intoxication

SESSION 2:

SESSION 6:

Prohibitions and Prescriptions

Scarcity and Humanitarianism For information on the conference program please refer to our website www.agya.info Contact: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @AGYA_events

The keynote lecture “Pork, Wine and Culinary Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean” by Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University) takes place at the Orient-Institut Beirut, 12 May 2016, 7pm. In cooperation with

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