9.15 Registration (Lloyd Room, Christ’s College)
9.30 Welcome Address
9.45 – 10.45 KEYNOTE Chair: Dr Melissa Calaresu
Professor Rebecca Earle (Warwick, CAS), ‘Spaniards, Cannibals and the Eucharist’
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1: Food, Transgression, and Memory Chair: Katrina Moseley
Philippa Carter (Cambridge, History), ‘Breaking bread, breaking bonds: eating, piety, and hospitality in early modern English witchcraft narratives’
Eleanor Barnett (Cambridge, History), ‘Food and religious transgression in the Venetian Inquisition, c. 1560 – c. 1640’
Julia Biggs (Independent researcher), ‘Bittersweet: Mnemonic meals and the maintenance of identity in early modern Jewish ritual practice’
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch break (Old Combination Room)
13.45 – 14.45 Roundtable: Food and Faith Today Chair: Eleanor Barnett
With religious leaders:
Revd. Dr Mark Smith (Chaplain, Christ’s College); Rabbi Mordechai Zeller (Chaplain, University of Cambridge); Dr Murray Corke (lay Buddhist Dharma teacher); Urmila M. Prabhat (Trustee/Chair, Indian Community and Culture Association).
14.45 – 15.45 Panel 2: Catholic Food Chair: Professor Mary Laven
Daniel Virgili (Queen Mary, History), ‘Catholic Appetites: The Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury, Rome, 1569’
Dr Claudio Ferlan (Italian-German Historical Institute, History), ‘Gastronomy of Lean days. Society of Jesus fasting rules’
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 – 17.15 Panel 3: Food and Faith – Comparative Perspectives Chair: Professor Ulinka Rublack
Professor Veronika Čapská (Charles University, Prague, Anthropology), ‘Food, Religion and Society in Bohemia 1400-1700. Questions – Texts – Identities’
Junfu Wong (Cambridge, History), ‘Faith and Morality in Liturgies: Redefining Dietary of Manchu and Mongol Culture in Early Modern China’
17.15 – 17.30 Closing remarks
17.30- 18.30 Wine reception (Lloyd Room)
19.15 Dinner for speakers
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