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Victoria Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Co-curator of Feast & Fast exhibition)

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of power, promise and...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Melissa Caldwell (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, and editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture)

‘The Pineapple Between Tropical Imaginaries and American...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Peter Crane (President, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, USA; former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) [recorded video presentation]

‘Maria Sibylla Merian, Metamorphosis and...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Session 1: The Global Pineapple

Chair: Melissa Calaresu (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Rebecca Earle (School of Comparative American Studies, Warwick)

‘From the...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Session 2: The Edible Pineapple

Chair: Deborah Krohn (Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York)

Ivan Day (Independent food historian)
‘As if Rosewater, Wine and...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Richard A. Hawkins (Reader in History, University of Wolverhampton)

Pineapple Processing and Canning from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Session 4: The Replicated Pineapple

Chair: Francesca Beauman (Author of The Pineapple: King of fruits)

Emma Spary (Reader in History of Modern European Knowledge,...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Kasia Boddy (Reader in American Literature, English, Cambridge)

The Poetic Pineapple: Some Literary and Filmic Uses of the Fruit

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Melissa Calaresu (Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Pineapples and Pomegranates: Representing and Eating Exotic Fruit at the Early...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Jonathan Swinton (author of Alan Turing's Manchester (2019))

The Beauty Myth: Why Pineapples Don't Need Protractors

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of power, promise...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Session 5: The Iconic Pineapple

Chair: Dániel Margócsy (Lecturer in Science, Technology and Medicine before 1800, History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)

Julie...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Kathryn Jones (Senior Curator, Decorative Arts, Royal Collection Trust)

‘A Profusion of Pines’: The Pineapple in Architecture and the Decorative Arts...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Johanna Lausen-Higgins (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh)

Pineapple Mania - The Art of Cultivation in Eighteenth Century Britain

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Lavinia Maddaluno (Warburg/I Tatti Joint Fellow)

Pineapples, Roman Aristocracy and the Pope in Enlightenment Rome

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of power, promise and...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Session 7: The Political Pineapple

Chair: Melissa L. Caldwell (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, and editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture)

Henry Knight Lozano...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Howard Griffiths (Professor of Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences, and Co-Chair of Cambridge Global Food Security IRC, Cambridge)

Domestication of Wild Pine: How the Pineapple...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Inanna Hamati-Ataya (Director, Centre for Global Knowledge Studies, CRASSH)

'The Traveling Pineapple: A Political History'

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of power,...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

Martin Mowforth (Visiting Specialist in Tourism and Development, Plymouth Business School, Plymouth)

Dirty Pineapples from Costa Rica

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020