Workshop

Public Eating, Public Drinking: Places of Consumption from Early Modern to Postmodern Times

German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
May 23 - 24, 2008

Conveners:

Marc Forster (Connecticut College),
Maren Möhring (GHI/University of Zurich)

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Participants & Papers

Lars Amenda (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg):
Food and Otherness. Chinese Restaurants in West European Cities in the 20th Century *

Elizabeth Buettner (University of York):
Curry Capitals, Chicken Tikka Masala, and Flock Wallpaper: Loving and Loathing Britain's "Indian" Restaurants

Angelika Epple (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg):
The "Automat" – an "American Institution"? Quick Lunch Rooms in Europe and the U.S.

Marc Forster (Connecticut College):
Gender and Honor in Village Taverns

Donna Gabaccia/Jeffrey M. Pilcher (University of Minnesota):
‘Chili Queens’ and Checkered Tablecloths: Public Dining Cultures of Mexicans and Italians in the United States, 1880-1940

Andrew P. Haley (University of Southern Mississippi):
Playing with Their Food: Children and the Culinary Arts, 1890-1960 *

Beat Kümin (University of Warwick):
Iconographical Approaches to the Early Modern Public House (images separate download)

Maren Möhring (GHI/University of Zurich):
Italian Restaurants and Ice-Cream Parlours in postwar Germany

Anke Ortlepp (GHI):
Empty Plates in the Crowded Skies: the Rationalization of Airline Food in the Twentieth-Century United States

Peter Scholliers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
The Diffusion of the Restaurant Culture in the 19th century: Brussels as peculiar or typical case?

Ulrike Thoms (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Charité Berlin):
Physical Reproduction, Social Differentiation, and Communication in the Workplace. The Lunch Room as a Place of Consumption

Ann Tlusty (Bucknell University):
Drinking Culture and the Boundaries of Identity in the Early Modern German City

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