NEMLA 2025------PHILADELPHIA, PA------MARCH 6-9, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, (R)evolution, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or food-ways as the subject of evolution or revolution leads us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian and Italian-American (or Italo-Australian, Italo-Canadian, Italo-British, Italo-Hispanic) contexts.

This year we invite you to submit papers focusing on food in the context of Italian and/or Italian-American film, literature, and media, considering but not limited to the following themes:

· Transformation

· Adaptation

· Migration/immigration

· Environment/agriculture

· Minority communities

Please submit abstracts via the NeMLA Portal at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21161. For questions, please contact Irene Hatzopoulos (ireneh@ucr.edu) or Valentina Morello (vmorello@uark.edu)