Events

 

Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast - Book Talk Celebrating Professor Carla Cevasco

When:  Thursday, September 22, 2022, 03:00pm

Where:  AB 6051 Seminar Room

Category:  Center for Cultural Analysis

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Carla Cevasco Book TalkBook talk celebrating the work of CCA Book Prize Winner Professor Carla Cevasco (RU Department of American Studies)

Speakers:

Andrew Lipman (Colombia - Barnard)
Jennifer Anderson (SUNY Stonybrook)
Jack Bouchard (RU Department of History)

Reception to follow.
For virtual participation, please register here: 
https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArceigrTovH9EaBhAHCmdjFjVlSweZooWm

Book Details:

Carla Cevasco reveals the disgusting, violent history of hunger in early northeastern North America. Native Americans and European colonists, locked in constant violence, repeatedly faced the pain of hunger and the struggle for resources, which would transform the meanings of hunger across cultures. Cevasco emphasizes the precarity of the colonial project as well as Native strategies of resistance to both hunger and colonial invasion. By foregrounding hunger, she breaks new ground, opening food studies to a study of scarcity rather than plenty.