Food as Sacred Text: Interreligious Rituals, Practices, & Culture

Registration for online attendees: https://events.gtu.edu/event/483288

Registration for in-person attendees: https://events.gtu.edu/event/479575 

Keynote Address

holše mak-nuunu — Our Culture is Beautiful
Cafe Ohlone and the ‘oṭṭoy Initiative

Louis Trevino and Vincent Medina

Featured Presentations (all times in CT) 

Oryoki: Ritualized Zen Eating Practices (12:00 pm to 12:40 pm)

• Rev. Gesshin Greenwood, Institute of Buddhist Studies

Catholic Saints: Their Feasts and Foods (12:45 pm to 1:15 pm)

• Dr. Chris Renz, OP Academic Dean and Professor of Liturgical Studies, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology

Food Insecurity, Islamic Charity, and Giving for the Sake of God (1:20 pm to 1:50 pm)

• Dr. Munir Jiwa  Founding Director, Center for Islamic Studies and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, GTU

Shi’i Inscribed Votive Food (3:30 pm to 4:00 pm)

• Zeinab Vessal, GTU PhD student

Gathering Ingredients: Mormon Women and the Recipe for Backstage Rites (4:05 pm to 4:35 pm)

• Kristine Wright Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Religion at Princeton University 

Dining with the Dead: Meals as Mortuary Ritual in Judean Bench Tombs (4:50 pm to 5:20 pm)

• Dr. Aaron Brody Professor of Bible & Archaeology, Director of the Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion

Food and Fulfillment in Jewish Practice (5:25 pm to 5:55 pm)

• Dr. Deena Aranoff Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and Senior Lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies, GTU