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​CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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Please note that the hours specified in the program refers to the time in Poland,  (CEST).

We kindly ask you to convert the time to your place.

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THURSDAY, 20 August 2026

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2.00 PM – 5.00 PM: Conference opening and Session I
Chair: Wojciech Owczarski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

 

​Mo Ding (East China Normal University, China)
Making New Year Atmosphere through Food: Embodied Memory and Spatial Transformation in Yangzhou Year Steaming
Joanna Nowicka (Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Walbrzych, Poland)
The Production and Consumption of Confectionery in a Shortage Economy: The Case of Krówki, Chocolate Substitutes, and Other Sweets in the Polish People’s Republic

Parismita Das (Gauhati University, Assam, India)
Communicating Culture through Food: A study of the Mising Community

Derek Barker-Ciganik (University of Vienna, Austria)
From Food Memory to Identity Infrastructure: Reimagining Food through Identity Group Theory
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
From Food Trucks to the Chef Corps: Selling America through Its Cuisine

Jill Zweibelson (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)
A Menu of Hunger: Scarcity and Survival at the Table in World War II
 

​5.0 PM – 6.30 PM: Break

6.30 PM – 9.30 PM: Session II

Chair: Marzia Dessi (The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas-Fee, Switzerland)

Danica Anderson (The Kolo: Women's Cross-Cultural Collaboration)
Blood & Honey Icons: Food as Biosemiotic Language and Epigenetic Memory in the Oral Memory Practices of South Slavic Women War Crimesand War Survivors

Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
The Transcultural Paradigm in Peter Mayle’s Literary Heritage

Marzia Dessi (The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas-Fee, Switzerland)
“His Lowness creeped out first via his foodstuffs!” Scatology and the Sacrament
in Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
Weronika Świrek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
The Fruit of Paradise and Paradox: Pomegranate in Eastern Mnemonic Cultures
Adriana Primo-McKinley (Albany State University, USA)
Food, Power, and Memory in Agustina Bazterrica’s The Unworthy: The Politics of Consumption in a Dystopian World
Rohini Chakraborty (Arizona State University, USA)
Food as a Tool of Subjugation in Canadian Residential Schools During the Age of Colonization

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FRIDAY, 21 August 2026

2.00 PM – 5.00 PM: Session III

Chair: Samrita Sinha (Sophia College for Women [EmpoweredAutonomous], India)

Anna Erzsébet Szűcs (Independent Researcher)
Writing Food, Remembering Place: Culinary Literary Activism and Cultural Continuance in Indigenous Pacific Literature
Rumana Rahman (Khulna University, Bangladesh)
Food and Folksongs: Manifestations of Nostalgia at a Transnational Home in Niaz Zaman’s The Baromashi Tapes
Samrita Sinha (Sophia College for Women [Empowered Autonomous], India)
An Autoethnographic Narrative of Diasporic Subjectivity in Select South Asian Diasporic Cookbooks
Anjali Singh (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
Performing Past: Embodied Gastronomy in Diasporic Culinary Memoirs
Aiman Zahra (University of Management and Technology [UMT], Lahore,
Pakistan)
Agency within Structure: The Rural Kitchen as a Heterotopic Space of Female Agency in Taufiq Rafat’s The Kitchen
Farideh Amirfarhangi Bonab (University of Parthenope, Naples, Italy)
The Diet of Ship Crews in Eighteenth-Century Maritime Narratives

5.00 PM: Conference Closing

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NEW! PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY​​​

• Conference participants will have the opportunity to publish post-conference papers in a journal of the University of Gdańsk

  
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