May’s source of the month is “Race, Nutrition and Empire: Domestic Reform and Japanese Immigrants in Territorial-Era Hawaiʻi” by University of Hawai’i Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Mire Koikari, published in Gender & History (Sept. 2022).
X-posted from H-Sci-Med-Tech.
May 11, 2023
With apologies for late posting. Most of the food/nutrition talks are tomorrow, May 12, all times are CEST, UTC+2. See programme, nb Room 103. https://www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/colloquia-ceranea
I don't know if recordings of the talks will be posted later.
Wishing I could be there for the May 13, tasting! How did Ancient and Byzantine Food Taste Like? Dégustationprepared by Maciej Helbig
April’s source of the month is From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age by historian and Auburn University associate professor Xaq Frohlich, published in 2023 by University of California Press.
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Hunger and Food in the History of the Global South (long 20th century)
Guest Editors:
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 12 pm -1:30 pm US Eastern Time [The H-Nutrition Editors apologize for the lateness of this notice but chose to publish it post hoc in case the topic still interests readers.]
Nourish. Food & Trust. - CFP open for 18th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
March’s source of the month is a very brief primary source taken from the Nome Nugget newspaper, published in Alaska in 1959.
For those who read Spanish or have an interest in Latin American history of nutrition, you may want to check out Rehsnal (https://www.redehsnal.com/), a network of scholars working on the history of nutrition and related areas:
