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
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