Writings


A Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by Cappadocia University, Turkey, January 13 – 15, 2021 
Venue: Cappadocia University, Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir/Turkey (Virtual-Microsoft Teams)
Keynote speakers: Kim Stanley Robinson, Larissa Lai, Maggie Gee, Elizabeth Outka, Raffaella Baccolini, and Tom Moylan
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture, January 13-15, 2021 

Wrote/Presented a conference paper titled:
​ "Eating meals during a pandemic/epidemic: how science fiction brings food commensality, culture, and taboos to the experience"

Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture 
Vol 7 No 1 (2019): Winter 2019-2020
Wrote Book Review of: Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (Candi K. Cann, ed. University Press of Kentucky, 2017) click for .pdf here 

​Parade History  (www.ParadeHistory.com)  Visit the website for my writings and photo essays about parades, processions, marches, walks, demonstrations, promenades, motorcades, pilgrimages, and related festive events in California and worldwide. I try to bring a little science fiction, environmental awareness, cultural appreciation, and creativity to the articles.

Before Parade History, I wrote on H-Net Celebration (2017-2019) part of the H-net academic humanities site. My essays were listed under Parade Talk blog. On this site, I included my fieldwork photos and unusual interpretations of events. I often employed an anthropology, folklore, film studies, material culture, or some other relevant seeming perspective to the writing. Topics explored include:
  • outer space
  • social movements
  • commercial and movie screen parodies
  • trademarked costumes
  • phenomenology
  • nudity and utopian ideas
  • material culture
  • cultural symbolism
  • specific fieldwork with Hare Krishna Festival of Chariots, Topless Day Parade, Japanese Nisei Week Grand Parade, Annual Bridge USA Natsu Masuri - Japanese mikoshi parade, Kingdom Day parade, Women's March...

I've since created Twitter and Instagram sites to accompany the Parade History | Parade Talk site.
Art Interview click here
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