Food and Nurturance
What sustains our bodies and our well being?
What does food mean and symbolize for us?
With whom do we eat and commune?
What rituals do we perform while eating and practicing care?
How do these meanings and practices travel across borders?
Whose labor is expended in order for us to eat and maintain our health?
What impact do we have on our environment and our communities in order to feed and nurture ourselves?
The UCI Humanities Center will explore these questions through our annual theme of “Food and Nurturance” for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Please join us for a kick-off event for a roundtable conversation on:
Islands, Nations, and the Global Circulation of Asian Food
Friday, October 24, 2025
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Humanities Gateway Rm. 1030
Speakers
Yong Chen, Professor of History, Associate Dean, at UCI and author of Chop Suey, U.S.A.: The Rise of Chinese Food in America
Dana Collins, Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton and author of “‘Eat That Nostalgia’: Filipino Foodways and Food Consciousness in LA”
Ping-Chen Hsiung, CIPSH (International Council for Philosophy and Humanities Studies) Chair in New Humanities at UCI and Professor of History and Director of the Taiwan Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alyssa Paredes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan and co-editor of Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food
Moderator
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Faculty Director of the Humanities Center
For more information, please contact Professor Judy Wu (j.wu@uci.edu).
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