Thursday, April 21, 2016
12:00 – 1:30PM PST
UC Irvine Humanities Gateway Building, Rm 1010
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Professor Kun will discuss his work with the historic menu collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, a living repository of meals past and an archive of urban eating that tells us about the changing role of food in the city. Treating the menus as “urban texts,” Kun reads dishes, restaurant history, and menu design for clues to how economics, culture, race, and gender have formed both L.A. food history and the history of L.A. itself.
FEATURING
Josh Kun
Associate Professor
Dept of Communication Studies,
University of Southern California
Josh Kun is an author, critic, curator, and an Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC.
Co-Sponsored by:
Community Outreach Partnership Center
UCI School of Social Ecology