Our keynote speaker on the sixth Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is Chair of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University. She is the author of Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (Reaktion Books 2006), Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth Century Korea (Reaktion Books 2012), and Himerareta washokushi (Shinsensha 2016).
Check this year’s programme here
