Irene Hatzopoulos (University of California - Riverside)
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Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.
Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.
In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2025 theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" as represented through food in Italian and Italian American media and literature.
Topics can include: •food of migration/migrants food memories in diaspora communities •food traditions and their evolutions food and community •food and isolation •foodways and how they determine belonging