UTSA hosts conference on food representation in arts

(Feb. 11, 2002)--The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host the second annual interdisciplinary and multicultural conference, "Food Representation in Literature, Film and Other Arts," Feb. 14-16 at the Downtown Campus. The event includes panel discussions, film screenings, art and book exhibits, and a creative writing presentation.

The objective of the conference is to examine, celebrate and enjoy the variety of ways food has been represented in the arts throughout time and around the world. Speakers from universities in the United States and Mexico will discuss food representation in literature, film and other artworks of the United States, Europe, Latin America, China and India -- from ancient Greece to the present.

Thirty panel presentations will describe the use of chocolate, bread, vegetables, spices, steak, fowl, pastry, alcohol and other foods to make statements about love, hunger, appetite, poverty, eating disorders, sexual politics and cannibalism in a range of media by Tolstoy, Ntozake Shange, M.F.K. Fisher, Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney, Chaucer, Carlo Goldoni, Jane Austen, Renoir, Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Philip Roth, Isabel Allende, Frank Zappa, Pedro Almodovar, Hipponax, Homer and others.

The conference will include showings of the films "The Last Supper" (Cuba), "301/102" (Korea) and "Soul Food" (U.S.).

A reception for the art exhibit "Eating Out," organized in conjunction with the conference, will be at 6 p.m. Feb. 15, at the UTSA Satellite Space at the Blue Star Arts Complex, 115 Blue Star (S. Alamo and Probandt). The exhibit of paintings and sculptures by San Antonio artists shows works utilizing food as an image or medium.

"A Celebration of Food: A Reading by UTSA Creative Writing Faculty" will be presented at the Satellite Space from 6:45-8 p.m. Feb. 15, featuring Catherine Kasper, Wendy Barker, Norma Cantu, Bonnie Lyons and David Vance.

Registration for the conference is 5-7 p.m. Feb. 14, in Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.338 at the Downtown Campus. The cost is $75, or free for students with ID.

For more information contact (210) 458-4373 or e-mail.

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