caps-news: event this week - "Rice in China: Histories and Myths”

[Lori O'Hollaren]

Please join us for the first event of the term:

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Jeremiah Lecture
"Rice in China: Histories and Myths”
Professor Francesca Bray, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
5:30 pm

Professor Bray is one of the most important and path-breaking scholars in the field of the History of Technology, with numerous publications including Agriculture (Part 2 of the section Biology and Biological Technology in Joseph Needham’s series Science and Civilisation in China (1984, Cambridge University Press) and The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (1994, University of California Press), a study on Rice in Heian Culture (Journal of Anthropology, 2005) as well as studies  on genetically modified crops and on sustainable landscapes. In her public lecture, she will speak to the ways in which a foodways focus opens new questions and perspectives with regard to our understanding of Chinese culture and society.

This event is free and open to the public. It is the initial event in conjunction with the international conference "Foodways in China", to be held at the University of Oregon, May 9-10, 2013. For more information please call 541-346-1521.  Cosponsors include the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the UO Confucius Institute for Global China Studies, the National Resource Center for East Asian Studies, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.


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