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6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
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Brunei Gallery
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Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Event type
Lecture

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Professor Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins University)

Sidney W. Mintz is a Research Professor in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. A pioneering scholar in Afro-Caribbean studies and in the Anthropology of Food, Professor Mintz is the author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History , Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History , Caribbean Transformations , and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past .

The lecture will launch two new SOAS research centres: The SOAS Food Studies Centre & The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Contact email: rb41@soas.ac.uk

Contact Tel: 020 7898 4893