Writing About Taste

The University Writing Program announced a talk by food writer Janet Fletcher on the topic of “Food as Muse—Lively Writing About Taste.” at 4 p.m. March 2 in 126 Voorhies Hall. Fletcher is the author or co-author of 20 books on food and wine, and the weekly cheese columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

‘Shakespeare in Edo’

Stanca Scholz-Cionca of the University of Trier is scheduled to give a talk next week on “Shakespeare in Edo: Inoue Hisashi and Perfomance as Hypertext.”
The talk, set for 4 p.m. March 4 in 912 Sproul Hall, is sponsored by East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Theater and Dance.
For more information, contact Stephanie Fallas, sfallas@ucdavis.edu.

Religion, Literature and the Arts

Faculty members and graduate students from a variety of disciplines are planning to come together next week to explore a perennial dichotomy, first articulated by Plato in western thought, that has divided the thinker-philosopher from the poet.

“Religion on the one hand (something that is true), poetics, rhetoric and art and music, on the other hand (based on imagination), have an ongoing battle,” according to the organizers of Religion, Literature and the Arts, an all-day conference set for March 5.

Giuseppe Mazzotta is the keynote speaker (1 p.m.), providing an overview of the issues. The Yale professor (Italian and comparative literature) is in residence at UC Berkeley.

The conference is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 126 Voorhies Hall. More information is available from Brenda Deen Schildgen, professor, comparative literature, bdschildgen@ucdavis.edu.

Sponsors: Comparative Literature, English, Music, Jewish Studies and Humanities Institute.