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LECTURE: Eating Heritage through Time
Join this Morning Morning Lecture to learn about food heritage!
When and where
Date and time
Monday, March 27 · 11am - 12pm +08
Location
Asian Civilisations Museum, Ngee Ann Auditorium at Basement 1 Empress Place Singapore, 179555 Singapore
About this event
- 1 hour
- Mobile eTicket
EATING HERITAGE THROUGH TIME: FOODWAYS, SENSORY ENCOUNTERS AND EVERYDAY LIFE EXPERIENCES
Drawing from previous and current research, this talk unpacks how foodways, the senses, and everyday life experiences unfold over time. Heritage-making and how it is sustained, are anchored upon a welding of both sensory relations and gastronomic practices. Together, food heritage reflects a combination of personal, familial, as well as political identities that speak of communal ties and group affiliation which are demonstrated through everyday practices of food and foodways.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kelvin E.Y. Low is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests comprise sensory studies, social memory, heritage and historiography, migration and transnationalism, and food and foodways. He is the author or editor of 6 books, with the most recent being Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He presently serves as a member of the Core Academic Panel of the National Museum of Singapore.