Food and Diaspora, Professor Sidney Mintz, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2017-06-27

This recently rediscovered Distinguished Lecture titled "Food and Diaspora" was given by Professor Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins University) at the launch of two new SOAS research centres: The SOAS Food Studies Centre & The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies on 11 October 2007
You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/oh5fbg
https://www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/
https://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/

Sidney W. Mintz is a Research Professor in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. A pioneering scholar in Afro-Caribbean studies and in the Anthropology of Food, Professor Mintz is the author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History, Caribbean Transformations, and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past.

The lecture will launch two new SOAS research centres: The SOAS Food Studies Centre & The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies