Food as a cultural Signifier Program

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 19:00 Gathering in the lobby of Le Bristol hotel & walk to the restaurant 19:30 GET-TOGETHER at Dar Bistro & Books 11:30-12:30 Session 2: Prohibitions and Prescriptions I Chair: Kirill Dmitriev (St Andrews) Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter) Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer Karen Moukheiber (AUB) Beyond Halal: The Do`s and Don`ts of Islamic Cookery in Urban Medieval Syria Thursday, 12 May 2016 Venue: American University of Beirut (AUB), College Hall, Auditorium B1 08:00 Gathering in the hotel lobby & walk to AUB 12:30-13:30 LUNCH 08:15-08:30 WELCOME COFFEE 13:30-14:30 08:30-09:00 Welcome Speech Fadlo R. Khuri (President of the American University of Beirut) Opening Address and Introduction Julia Hauser, Bilal Orfali, Kirill Dmitriev (Conference Organizers) 09:00-11:00 Session 1: Food and Social Status Chair: Torsten Wollina (OIB) Brigitte Caland (AUB) Food as a Display of Power and Intellectual Movements from Mesopotamia to Ottoman Empire Nuha Al-Shaar (American University of Sharjah) The Ritualization of Food and Table-Talk in Arabic Traditions Tarek Abu Hussein (Harvard University) Social Dining, Banqueting and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity: The Case of Damascene ‘Ulama’ in the Late Mamluk/Early Ottoman Period Norman Domeier (University of Stuttgart) Food and Politics. Political Banquet Culture in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s Session 3: Prohibitions and Prescriptions II Chair: Kirill Dmitriev (St Andrews) Mariam Al-Attar (American University of Sharjah) Food Ethics: The Debate over the Permissibility of the Genetically Modiied Food (GM Food) in Contemporary Muslim Juridical Ethics Shaheed Tayob (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen) Theoretical Relections on Halal Food 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK 14:30-14:45 COFFEE BREAK 14:45-15:45 Session 4: Body Chair: Alexis Wick (AUB) Christian Junge (University of Marburg) Food, Body, Society: Al-Shidyāq’s ‘Somatic Critique’ of 19th Century Modernities Silke Hackenesch (University of Kassel) Trapped in Eternal Servitude? Chocolate as a Racial Signiier and the Case of the German “Sarotti Mohr” 17:30 Evening Event at the Orient-Institut Beirut Gathering in the hotel lobby & walk to OIB 18:00 19:30 Keynote Lecture by Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University) The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices”: Pork, Wine and Culinary Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean RECEPTION at OIB Friday, 13 May 2016 Excursion along the Lebanese Food Trail 09:00 Gathering in the hotel lobby & bus transfer Session 5: Intoxication Chair: Mario Kozah (AUB) Bilal Orfali (AUB) Wine and Humanism in Early Islam Danilo Marino (INALCO Paris) Food and Hashish in Mamluk Literature Elizabeth Saleh (AUB) Food, Wine and Visions of Authenticity in Lebanon Saturday, 14 May 2016 Venue: American University of Beirut, College Hall, Auditorium B1 08:30 Gathering in the hotel lobby & walk to AUB 09:00-10:30 Session 6: Abstention Chair: Bilal Orfali (AUB) Pedro Martins (University of Göttingen) An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre: Discussions on Meat-Eating as a Battleield for Different World-Views in Antiquity Kevin Blankinship (University of Chicago) Veganism and the Ethics of Medieval  Authorship in Ma arrī’s Personal Correspondence Julia Hauser (University of Kassel) Fantasies of the Frugal: Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse 10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK 10:45-12:15 Session 7: Scarcity and Humanitarianism Chair: Till Grallert (OIB) Lola Wilhelm (The Graduate Institute Geneva) Local Histories of International Food Aid Reem Maghribi (Sharq for Citizen Development) Displacement, Food and Mealtimes: Syrian Refugees and Changing Food Regimes Tylor Brand (American University of Sharjah) Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget: Coping and the Mnemonic Role of Food in the Syrian Famine of WWI 12:15-13:30 LUNCH 13:30-15:00 Session 8: Food and Gender Chair: Julia Hauser (University of Kassel) Rania Elsayed (Aga Khan University) The Quince: A Blessed Fruit that Enhances the Male’s Sperm and Beautiies the Fetus in his Mother’s Womb Christian Sassmannshausen (Freie Universität Berlin) Eating Up: Food and Status in Late Ottoman Greater Syria Anny Gaul (Georgetown University) Gender, Class, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1919-1952) 15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK 15:30-16:30 Final Discussion 20:00 Venue: DINNER EVENT Discover Abbasid Food: Encounters in Gastronomic History by and in cooperation with Brigitte Caland commented by Charles Perry Hotel Le Bristol Contact AGYA team Ana Iriarte Diez (AGYA Contact Ofice Beirut) 00961 78832918 Maria Röder-Tzellos (AGYA Ofice Berlin) 0049 (0)1763 0733589 Contact: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @AGYA_events www.agya.info International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signiier American University of Beirut 12-14 May 2016 SPONSORED BY THE In cooperation with With the kind support of 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).