The Archaeo-Oriental Studies team cordially invites you to a seminar entitled: Can Power Be Eaten? How did food “prevent” an assassination attempt on a Japanese emperor? Why did Mussolini want to “ban pasta”? We will focus on food as an element of identity building and exclusion and its connections to religion and politics.

The discussion will be initiated by Dr. Natalia Mętrak-Ruda (literary translator, culinary journalist, and author of the book on the history of vegetarianism, Warzywa zjedz, mięso zostaw) and Dr. Monika Nawrocka (senior assistant at the Department of Japanese Studies, specialist in traditional Japanese culinary culture, and master of the hōchōshiki culinary ritual in the Shijō Shinryū style). Moderator: Anna Klingofer-Szostakowska (Hebraist, literary translator, and member of the Archeo-Oriental Studies Team). The seminar will be held on May 5 at 3:00 p.m. in the main reading room of the Faculty of Oriental Studies (Hoża 69).