Please consider submitting an abstract for PAMLA 2025--Italian and Italian American Foodways.

The conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from Nov 20-Nov 23, 2025. The extended deadline for abstracts is June 30th, 2025.

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

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words to: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19630

If you have any questions please contact Irene Hatzopoulos (ireneh@ucr.edu) or Fabrizio Di Maio (fdimaio@uci.edu)