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Featuring Speakers: 

Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illnois, Urgana-Champaign, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003)

Anita Mannur, Miami University, author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture (Temple University Press, 2009)

Robert Ji-Song Ku, Ginghamton University, author of Dubious Gaastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA (University of Hawaii Press, 2014)

The three editors of Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (NYU Press, 2013) will discuss their book and the relationship between the burgeoning field of food studies and Asian American studies. Using the Filipino dish lechon, the highly popular Sriracha hot sauce, and the often ridiculed canned meat product SPAM as specific case studies, the speakers will ruminate on the class, racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender inequalities that often pervade and persist in the production, distribution, consumption, and representation of Asian American food.

Refreshments will be served.