Event Details

Please note, this free one-day conference will be held both in-person and on livestream. This registration is for the livestream event. Speakers begin at 9am PST, and we will run the livestream until noon, and then turn it off for a lunch break. The afternoon livestream will begin at 1:30 and run until 4pm. The livestream will be presented in Zoom's webinar format, and you will be able to enter any questions you have into a Q&A for the speakers. 

You will receive a link and password to the zoom event before the conference.

Keynote lecture by Vincent Medina & Louis Trevino: holše mak-nuunu — Our Culture is Beautiful Cafe Ohlone and the ‘oṭṭoy Initiative

Presentations:

• "Oryoki: Ritualized Zen Eating Practices" by Rev. Gesshin Greenwood, Communications & Admissions Director, Institute of Buddhist Studies (10:00am to 10:40am)
• "Catholic Saints: Their Feasts and Foods" by Dr. Chris Renz, OP, Academic Dean & Professor of Liturgical Studies, Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology (10:45am to 11:15am)
• "Food Insecurity, Islamic Charity, and Giving for the Sake of God" by Dr. Munir Jiwa, Founding Director, Center for Islamic Studies & Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & Anthropology, GTU (11:20am to 11:50am)
• "Shi’i Inscribed Votive Food" by Zeinab Vessal, Ph.D. Student, GTU (1:30pm to 2:00pm)
• "Gathering Ingredients: Mormon Women and the Recipe for Backstage Rites" by Kristine Wright, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Religion at Princeton University (2:05pm to 2:35pm)
• "Dining with the Dead: Meals as Mortuary Ritual in Judean Bench Tombs " Dr. Aaron Brody, Professor of Bible & Archaeology, Director of the Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion  (2:50pm to 3:20pm)
• "Food and Fulfillment in Jewish Practice" by Dr. Deena Aranoff, Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies & Senior Lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies, GTU(3:25pm to 3:55pm)

This conference is sponsored in part by an Atla Library Impact Grant

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