The panels will delve into women’s roles in effecting change across Asia through everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation, and consumption. This interdisciplinary and transregional approach will open new windows on the ways in which women—which we see as a heterogenous category, intersecting with class, education, locality, etc.—and their domestic practices have restructured familial, social, cultural, and at times political dynamics during the transition to “modernity."

Friday, April 19
10:30-12:30 Nourishing Life, Family, and the Nation

• Chair: Nick Admussen (Cornell University)
• Joshua Schlachet (University of Arizona)
• Christina Firpo (California Polytechnic State University)
• Violetta Ravagnoli (Emmanuel College)
• Wang Fei-Hsien (Indiana University)

1:45-3:00 Keynote Address

• Hyaeweol Choi (The University of Iowa)

3:30-5:30 The Kitchen and Aspirational Domesticity

• Chair: Jaime Sunwoo (Multidisciplinary artist)
• Suyoung Son (Cornell University)
• Rituparna Chowdhury (West Bengal State University)
• Chiara Formichi (Cornell University)

DAY 2 (Saturday, April 20) Program