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Professor Manalansan is Chair of the Minority Scholars Committee of the American Studies Association. His current book projects include the ethical and embodied dimensions of the lives and struggles of undocumented queer immigrants, Asian American immigrant culinary cultures, sensory, the affective dimensions of Filipino migrant labor, and Filipino return migration.

In an era where cultural appropriation in the arts are part of raging debates while in other venues, culinary pundits have declared Filipino cuisine as the "newest foodie trend," this presentation utilizes experiences of Filipino Americans as pivots for exposing the tensions and ambivalent energies of these two ongoing events. Idioms of shame and the migrant investments in culinary authenticity have become ingredients for an unpalatable smorgasbord of ideas, attitudes and politics. Instead, the argument turns to a queer anthropological framework that regurgitates shame and appropriation into openings rather than barriers to culinary cultural capaciousness. For more information please contact the Department of Anthropology at anpdept(at)msu.edu.

There will be a reception after the talk. 

 

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology 

Co-Sponosred by the Asian Pacific American Studies Program; Asian Studies Center; Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen); Food@MSU