Program

11:00 Greetings from the conveners

11:15. Giuseppe Di Scipio, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY

“Imperial Food at the Court of Frederick II in Palermo"

11:30. Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY

“Agonizing Diets, Agonistic Rituals: The Medieval Combat of Carnaval and Carême.”

11:45 Desmond Hosford, Ph.D. Musicology and doctoral candidate in French, The Graduate Center of CUNY

“Uneasy Anthropocentrism: Animals, Ethics, and Food in Seventeenth-Century France”.

12:00 questions

12: 30 Lunch break

1:30. Jeanne Fuchs, Department of Comparative Literatures and Languages, Hofstra University

“Haute Cuisine and High Drama: Vatel (the film)”

1:45. Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly, doctoral candidate in French, The Graduate Center of CUNY

"The Film Title as mise-en-bouche: Claire Denis’s Chocolat"

2 :00 questions

2:15. Julia Przybos, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY

“Splendeurs et misères of Appetites : A Physiological Reading of Balzac”

2:30. Jacquelyn Libby, doctoral candidate in French, The Graduate Center of CUNY

“Women and Consumption in two of Zola’s Novels”

2:45 questions

3:00. Janet Tanke, Associate Director, The Feminist Press, and doctoral candidate in English, The Graduate Center of CUNY

"Food, Painting and Music: Elizabeth Pennell, James McNeill Whistler, and the French Connection"

3:15 Daniel Gerould, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center of CUNY, and Executive Director, The Martin E. Segal Theatre

"Fending Off Famine during the Siege of Paris 1870-1871."

3:30 questions

3:45 Lucienne Serrano, York College and The Graduate Center of CUNY

"Memory inhabited by Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes"

4:00 Jeanine Parisier Plottel, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY

“Whimsical Gastronomy"

4:15 Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center of CUNY

"Simplest Provencal Cooking: from Cabanon to Co-op"

4:30 questions

5:00 adjourn and “collation”

In lieu of a break, coffee service is provided during the afternoon proceedings

The Symposium is followed by a Memorial program honoring Professor Alex Szogyi, from 6 to 8 PM in the Martin E. Segal Theatre

For more information call 212-817-8365 or contact French@gc.cuny.edu

The Graduate Center is located at 365 5th avenue, Manhattan, at the corner of 5th avenue and 34th street.