Irene Hatzopoulos (University of California - Riverside)
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Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a catalyst to discuss, criticize, and create systems of power
In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2026 theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”, looking at Italian and Italian American Food through a social cultural lens focusing on power and power dynamics. Papers exploring literature, cinema, (social) media, pedagogy are encouraged.
Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a catalyst to discuss, criticize, and create systems of power
In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2026 theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict”, looking at Italian and Italian American Food through a social cultural lens focusing on power and power dynamics. Papers exploring literature, cinema, (social) media, pedagogy are encouraged.
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 •food scarcity and rationing during war-time •food economics