20th Cambridge Heritage Symposium Cooking Identities & Tasting Memories: The heritage of food McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge May 10-11, 2019 In addition to its necessity for life, food serves as an unparalleled means through which to study the formation of identity within and between sociocultural groups. The embodied practices associated with cooking […]
In 2017, the United Nations estimated that the share of the world’s population over the age of sixty will have doubled between 2000 and 2050. Politicians, corporate executives, and popular commentators warn of a “crisis” produced by population aging, variously invoking concerns about slowed economic development in the global south, strained pensions and welfare systems,
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In an age of globalization, popular culture has been increasingly analyzed through transnational perspectives to reveal how local, national, international, and global dynamics influence and shape the form and content of a given cultural artifact, and impact its production, consumption, and regulation. Comics can cross national and cultural boundaries in a variety of contexts: from
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Darkness is a complex concept. In a real and a metaphorical sense it invites contemplation and imagination of the sad, the unknown, the fearful and unwholesome desires. At the same time it is thrilling and strangely attractive, playing with deep and persistent cultural and metaphysical tensions of good and evil , right and wrong. Darkness
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The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, March 29-31, 2019, in Anaheim, CA. The organizers seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and
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