CALL FOR PAPERS

FOR THE

7th INTERDISCIPLINARY AND MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE ON

FOOD REPRESENTATION IN THE HUMANITIES, FILM AND THE
ARTS

San Antonio, Texas

February 23-25, 2012

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

College of Liberal and Fine Arts
The University of Texas at San Antonio

The objective of this interdisciplinary, multicultural

conference is to examine, celebrate, and enjoy the variety
of ways in which food has been represented in the
humanities and the arts throughout time and throughout
the planet.
Writers, artists and poets, scholars in literature, history, art
history and film, cooks, psychologists, sociologist,
anthropologists and more are invited to contribute to this
dialogue with their participation.

Two hundred-word summaries of papers on food, written in

any of the several languages taught at The University of
Texas at San Antonio (English, Spanish, French, German,
Russian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic) will be
considered. Proposals for special panels will also be
considered. Proposals for individual papers or sessions
 should be postmarked or e-mailed (as a Word document
attachment) no later than
September 30, 2011, and should be addressed to:

Professor Santiago Daydí-Tolson, Conference Chair

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249-0644
e-mail: santiago.dayditolson@utsa.edu

For more detailed and updated information, including previous

Conference Programs, and Convivium Artium, the electronic journal on
food representation in literature and the arts, visit the Web Page of the
Department of Modern languages and Literatures:
http://flan.utsa.edu/foodconf , and the blog on food in the
humanities: http://foodinlitart.blogspot.com