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SUMMARY: Sawchen Lecture: Alex Drace-Francis “Mămăligă as Metahistory: Betw
 een Subordination and Revolt”
DESCRIPTION: Join us on November 5 at 12:30pm Pacific Time for an online Sa
 wchen Lecture. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’\, CENES welcomes Dr. Alex
  Drace-Francis from the University of Amsterdam. Title: “Mămăligă as Metahi
 story: Between Subordination and Revolt” Abstract: Dr. Drace-Francis will b
 e drawing on the traditional Romanian trope of the ‘non-/explosive’ corn mu
 sh as […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h3><img class="alignnone wp-image-23114 size
 -full" src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2024/0
 9/WEB_ADF_with-QR.jpg" alt="" width="1920" height="1080" /></h3><h3>Join us
  on November 5 at 12:30pm Pacific Time for an online Sawchen Lecture. Focus
 ing on the theme of ‘dissent’\, CENES welcomes <a href="https://www.uva.nl/
 en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html?cb">Dr. Alex Drace-
 Francis</a> from the <a href="https://www.uva.nl/en">University of Amsterda
 m</a>.</h3><p><strong>Title:</strong> "Mămăligă as Metahistory: Between Sub
 ordination and Revolt”</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Dr. Drace-Francis w
 ill be drawing on the traditional Romanian trope of the 'non-/explosive' co
 rn mush as a common trope in discussions about the limits of collective dis
 sent/popular revolt in 20th century Southeastern Europe. The talk proposes 
 a trajectory through the cultural and political history of maize in the reg
 ion\, first an ‘escape crop’ (James Scott) and then a means of control and 
 neo-enserfment of local populations paradoxically during periods of indepen
 dence. What is the relation between 'national' foods and historical agency 
 and what is the political significance of a formula that plays on the conju
 nction between 'culture' (crop) and the testing ground for cultural insurre
 ction and insubordination?</p><h3>About the Speaker</h3><p>Dr. Drace-Franci
 s' research covers the modern social and cultural history of southeastern E
 urope\, with focus on transnational perspectives on cultural nationalism in
  modern Eastern Europe and beyond. He has written and produced books\, arti
 cles and translations on travel writing from Eastern Europe\, and on Balkan
 /Southeast European regional identities\, historiography and literary histo
 ry. His most recent monograph\, The Making of Mămăligă (2022) is a longue-d
 urée transnational history of the popular cornmeal dish known as mămăligă i
 n Romania and Moldova\, and similar dishes from Serbia and Bulgaria. It sur
 veys the arrival\, cultivation\, consumption and commodification of maize i
 n the Balkans from Ottoman times to the eve of World War I\, as well as the
  cultural meanings of mămăligă in Eastern European literature\, art\, film\
 , folklore and cuisine.</p><h3>Watch Alex Drace-Francis’ Lecture Online:</h
 3><p>Missed the lecture on November 5th? You can <a href="http://hdl.handle
 .net/2429/90220">access the video and audio recording</a> on UBC’s cIRcle d
 atabase.</p>
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