CRASSH

Food Hawkers: Selling in the Street from Antiquity to the Present

Thursday, 22 April 2010 to Friday, 23 April 2010
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Thursday 22 April
9.30 - 10.00	Registration
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome and Introduction by Danielle van den Heuvel & Melissa Calaresu
10.15 - 10.45	Session I Chair: Sian Lazar (Anthropology, Cambridge) Claire Holleran (Classics, Liverpool) Hawkers and Haggling: Street Trade in Ancient Rome Psyche Williams-Forson (American Studies, Maryland) "I say, Watermelon! Watermelon! Got em red to the rind, lady”: African American Street Vendors and Performances with Food
10.45 - 11.15	Discussion
11.15 - 11.45	Tea & Coffee
11.45 - 12.15	Session II Chair: Sara Horrell (Economics, Cambridge) Anja Franck (Human and Economic Geography, University of Gothenburg) Constructing gender, place and work: Food hawking in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Annemarie Hiemstra (Psychology, Rotterdam) Psychology and entrepreneurship in the Street Food Sector of Vietnam
12.15 - 12.45	Discussion
12.45 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.45	Session III Chair: Julia Poole (Formerly Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum) Philip Kelleway (Independent art historian, UK) Representations of Street Food Traders in eighteenth-century European Porcelain: their Display, Meanings, and Proliferation Tom Stammers (History, Cambridge) The taste of the past: Street sellers and nostalgia in Restoration Paris Deborah Krohn (The Bard Graduate Center, New York) Quodlibets and Fricassées: Musical Settings of Street Cries in Late Renaissance Europe
14.45 - 15.15	Discussion
15.15 - 15.30	Tea & Coffee
15.30 - 16.00	Tour of the 18th-century porcelain figures of street vendors in the Fitzwilliam Museum with Julia Poole and Philip Kelleway

Friday 23 April
10.15 - 10.45	Session IV Chair: Evelyn Welch (Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary) Ivan Day (Independent food historian, UK) Street cries on the frozen Thames: Frost fairs in early modern London Katie Scott (Courtauld Institute, London) The Staff of Life: Eyeing/Buying Staples on the Street in Eighteenth-century Paris
10.45 - 11.15	Discussion
11.15 - 11.45	Tea & Coffee
11.45 - 12.15	SessionV Chair: Jakob Klein (Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London) Melissa Calaresu (History, Cambridge) Food selling and urban space in eighteenth- century Italy Manpreet Janeja (Anthropology, Cambridge) Street food hospitality in India and Bangladesh
12.15 - 12.45	Discussion
12.45 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.30	Session VI Chair: Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) Danielle van den Heuvel (Economics, Cambridge) Regulation and economic participation in urban food markets in early modern Holland and England Gracia Clark (Anthropology, Indiana) Perennial Targets: Street Food Vendors in Kumasi, Ghana
14.30 - 15.00	Discussion
15.00 - 15.30	Tea & Coffee
15.30 - 16.30	Round Table Discussion Jakob Klein (Anthropology, SOAS, London) Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) Evelyn Welch (Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield)
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