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SUMMARY:The Sweet Taste of Empire
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next EACW Research Seminar\, “The Swee
 t Taste of Empire\,” featuring Professor Kim F. Hall (Barnard College) i
 n conversation with Dr. Fred Schurink (EACW)\, discussing Professor Hall
 ’s new book\, The Sweet Taste of Empire.\n\nThe seminar will take place 
 on Thursday 12 February\, from 4–5 pm\, in Sam Alex SG.16.\n\nAbout the 
 Speaker\n\nProf. Hall’s research and teaching cover Renaissance/Early Mo
 dern Literature and Culture\, Critical Race Theory\, Black Feminist Stud
 ies\, Slavery Studies\, Visual Culture\, Food Studies\, and Digital Huma
 nities. Her first book\, Things of Darkness (Cornell UP\, 1996)\, used a
  black feminist approach to interpret Renaissance literature and helped 
 generate a new wave of scholarship on race in Shakespeare and Renaissanc
 e/Early Modern texts. Her second book\, Othello: Texts and Contexts (Bed
 ford/St. Martin’s Press\, 2006) offers readers visual and verbal textual
  materials that illuminate themes in Shakespeare’s play Othello: The Moo
 r of Venice. Her new book\, Sweet Tastes of Empire (University of Pennsy
 lvania Press\, 2025)\, explores how the unique emphasis the English plac
 ed on confections as a marker of status and national identity offered a 
 framework for grappling with changing notions of race\, gender\, labor\,
  and domesticity that shaped early colonization. Tracing the literal and
  literary uses of sugar in seventeenth-century England\, Hall shows how 
 literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shape
 d representations of Caribbean colonization and slavery\, developing a c
 ulinary language that functioned as a discourse of pleasure and white in
 nocence.\n\nWe hope you can join us for what promises to be a fascinatin
 g discussion.\n
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LOCATION:SG.16\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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