Talks & presentations

Lectures

Date	Title
28 August 2016 (14.00)	“Department Stores and the Japanese Gift-giving Traditions” Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis
12 July 2016	“Hunger, Restraint and Indulgence: Food in the Asia-Pacific War (1937-1945)” Cologne University's lecture series “The Second World War in East Asia and its Consequences"
12 June 2016 (14.00)	“Japanese Packaging in Historical Perspective” Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis
3 April 2016 (8:30 to 10:30am)	“The Kimchi File: Exploring Inter-Asian Connections during the Vietnam War”Seattle, USA, Washington State Convention Center, 6th Floor, Room 603Panel: “What to Eat: Food and Feeding in Twentieth-Century Wartime Asia” - Sponsored by the AAS China Inner Asia Council (CIAC)
19 February 2016	“The Raw, the Cooked and the Wrapped: Japanese Food Packaging in Action”Paris, FranceInternational Workshop “Scales of the alimentation: an Asian Perspective”, EHESS
October 13, 2015	“Food as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Lessons from Japan”
October 6, 2015	'Dream Island' and 'Sea Forest': The Afterlife of Tokyo's Landfills
June 26, 2015	‘From Beer to Kimchi: Feeding the Troops around the Pacific’
May 26, 2015 14:00	The Matter of Spirit? Alcohol as a Challenge in Historical Research
May 14, 2015	‘Estetyka kuchni japonskiej – mit czy rzeczywistość?’ (in Polish)
April 9, 2015 16:00	From Churchill's Gift to Whisky and Beer: Feeding the Troops in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
April 7, 2015 11:00	Restraint and Indulgence: Eating Out in Wartime and Postwar Japan
April 22, 2015 16:00	UCSC IHC Lecture: The Afterlife of Tokyo's Landfills
26 November 2014	Kimchi’s Global Journey from Saigon to London, 2014 Kimchiology Symposium, The National Library of Korea, Seoul.
14 October 2014	‘From Food to Rubbish: Modern Japan Inside Out’, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
29 August 2014	‘Wrapping Japan in the Post-Bubble Era’. European Association for Japanese Studies Conference, Anthropology & Sociology Sections
27 July 2014	‘Kawaii: Consuming Cuteness in Contemporary Japan’ Japanmuseum SieboldHuis
16 April 2014	Washoku: Japanese Food between Myth and Reality, Focus Asia: Food in Asia Symposium, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
14 April 2014	From Straw to Plastic: Wrapping and Unwrapping Food in Japan. Seminarkolloquium, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
27 March 2014	Korean Cuisine andthe Forces of History. Pacific Basin Institute spring lecture series Reimagining Food in Asia and the Pacific (Pomona, CA, USA)
27 March 2014	Overcoming Kaiseki: Tradition, Modernity and Japanese Cuisine, The Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium (Pomona, CA, USA)
8 February 2014	De Japanse verpakkingscultuur: esthetiek versus milieu, LUF lecture (Leiden, Netherlands).
16 January 2014	What is Washoku and Why It Matters. Asien-Afrika-Institut der Universität Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany).
Tuesday, October 14, 2014	‘From Food to Rubbish: Modern Japan Inside Out’, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
23 October 2013	Lezing Schattigheidscultuur in hedendaags Japan
2 March 2013	Kaiseki and Japanese Cuisine, paper presented at Thinking about Dinner: A Workshop on Cuisine, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada).
28 February 2013	Cuisine, Colonialism and (Cold) War: A Fresh Perspective on the Modern History of East Asia. Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada).
25 February 2013	From Malnutrition to Radiation: Reviewing Food Security and Food Safety in Japan (1945-2011). International Symposium: Rethinking Nature: Facing the Crisis in Contemporary Japan, Università Ca Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy).
28 November 2012	Food Safety in Europe in Historical Perspective. Keynote Speaker, 2012 Hangzhou International Conference of the People's Food, organized by Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou Association for the Advancement of Food Culture and Chinese Hangzhou Cuisine Museum (Hangzhou, China).
20 January 2012	The Spirits of the Time: Alcohol Consumption in Wartime Japan. Seminar in Material and Visual Anthropology, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University (Oxford, UK).
11 November 2011	Inaugural Lecture, Leiden University (Leiden, 11 November).
27 May 2011	‘In Anticipation of Global Hansik Campaign?: Korean Food Abroad from the Colonial Period to the Present’. Korean Pop Culture Conference, UCI East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California (Irvine, CA, USA).
28 January 2011	Foreign Food and the Making of Japanese Cuisine. International conference Consuming Japan: Society, Politics, Economy and Japanese Food, Ateneo de Manila University (Manila, Philippines).
23 and 26 April 2010	Food in Twentieth Century Korea,. Università di Roma, Facoltà degli Studi Orientali, (Rome, Italy).
12 March 2010	Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in 20th Century Korea. University of London, SOAS (London, UK).
9 November 2009	Feeding the Troops around the Pacific (1937-1953). Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California (Santa Barbara, CA, USA).
8 November 2009	Legal and Illegal Dining in 1940s Japan. Symposium commemorating 50th Anniversary of the Centre for Japanese Studies, University of California (Berkley, CA, USA).
8 May 2009	Culinary Globalization and East Asia. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Beppu, Japan).
24 April 2009	Restaurants in 1940s Japan. Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan).
29 January 2009	Beyond Hunger: Food in 1940s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies Noon Lecture Series, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA).
10 November 2008	Feeding the Troops in the Pacific and the Korean War. Asian Studies Centre Seminar Series, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK).
10 October 2008	Colonialism, War and Globalization: The Making of Korean National Cuisine. Annual Symposium of the Korean Society of Food Culture (Seoul, Republic of Korea).
17 November 2007	The Globalization of Korean Food. Interdisciplinary workshop Korean Waves: Korean Popular Culture in East Asia and the World, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University (New York, USA).
26 April 2007	The Aftertaste of Empire: New Approach to the Study of Japanese Society. Keynote lecture, the Fourth Conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (NAJS), Lund University (Lund, Sweden).

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