Time: Friday 23 May, 1-2:30pm
Place: A48 Clive Granger Building, University Park Campus
Guest speaker: Curtis Chin (author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant)
Interviewer: Dr Ruth Maxey (Associate Professor of Modern American Literature)
Chair: Dr Hongwei Bao (Associate Professor in Media Studies)
This is a free, in-person event and everyone is welcome!
If ‘You are what you eat’, then what we eat can say a great deal about who we are and what we want to become. The Chinese saying, ‘the desire for food and sex is part of human nature’, on the other hand, points to the important relationship between food and sexuality. What and how do we eat? How do our foodways speak to our racial, ethnic, class, gender and sexual identities?
In this public conversation, Dr Ruth Maxey, Associate Professor of Modern American Literature, and acclaimed Chinese American writer Curtis Chin will discuss the relationship between food, sexuality and cultural identity. Curtis will also read from his recently published, award-winning memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.