Empire Food to Post-Colonial City: Circulating Foodscapes in London, Toronto, and Singapore
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Empire Food to Post- Colonial City: Circulating Foodscapes in London, Toronto, and Singapore Dr Jayeeta Sharma is an Assistant Professor in History and Global Asia Studies at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests include migration, labour, gender, food, urban, religious, and diasporic cultures of South Asia, the Himalayan borderlands, and the British Empire. An historical analysis of some issues around food, urban, and circulatory history in the modern British Empire, and an exploratory discussion of post-colonial foodscapes in the context of mobile Asian groups in London, Toronto, and Singapore, chaired by A/P Ho Kong Chong DATE & TIME: February 7 th , 2:30-4pm, followed by High Tea. VENUE: Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 Shaw Foundation Building, level 6. RSVP to fasrda at nus.edu.sg.
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Empire Food to Post-Colonial City: Circulating Foodscapes
in London, Toronto, and Singapore
Dr Jayeeta Sharma is an Assistant Professor in History and Global Asia Studies at the University of Toronto.
Her academic interests include migration, labour, gender, food, urban, religious, and diasporic cultures of South Asia, the Himalayan borderlands, and the British
Empire.
An historical analysis of some issues around food, urban, and circulatory history in the modern
British Empire, and an exploratory discussion of post-colonial foodscapes in the context of mobile Asian groups in London, Toronto, and Singapore,
chaired by A/P Ho Kong Chong
DATE & TIME: February 7th, 2:30-4pm, followed by High Tea.VENUE: Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 Shaw Foundation Building, level 6. RSVP to fasrda at nus.edu.sg.
