The international conference „The Power of Taste. Europe at the Royal Table” in the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów

October 5-6, 2018

A royal table as a laboratory for culinary and political passions, taste as a tool of power - these are the topics on which we focused together with researchers and practitioners from Europe and the United States focused on the history of nutrition, food studies, the cultural meaning of food in the past and today.

Organizers
Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów
Center for Culinary Heritage, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Department of History and Material Culture of English Speaking Countries, Pedagogical University of Cracow

Scientific committee
Jarosław Dumanowski, Center for Culinary Heritage, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń
Fabio Parasecoli, Nutrition and Food Studies Department, New York University, USA
Andrzej Kuropatnicki, Department of History and Material Culture of English Speaking Countries, Pedagogical University of Cracow

The conference was organized in frame of the project “A Place at the Royal Table” project developed by the Network of European Royal Residences for the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.

 

Lectures and discussions: in English. Free admission. Registration is obligatory.

WE KINDLY INFORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Registration: Martyna Przedpolewska, mprzedpolewska@muzeum-wilanow.pl.

Place: Villa Intrata, ul. Stanisława Kostki Potockiego 23

• „The Power of Taste. Europe at the Royal Table”: programme of the conference

Programme

Friday, 5th October, 9.00-18.00
9.00 Registration
9.30 Paweł Jaskanis, Director, Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów
Jarosław Dumanowski, Center for Culinary Heritage, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Introduction to the Conference
Chair: Andrzej Kuropatnicki
10.00 Massimo Montanari, Bologna University, Italy — At Charlemagne’s Table. Food and power in the Early Middle Ages
10.30 Bruno Laurioux, European Institute for Food History and Cultures, Université François-Rabelais Tours, France — Gastronomic Exchanges? The Banquets given in 1378 for the Emperor’s visit in Paris
11.00 Discussion
11.30 Coffee break
Chair: Fabio Parasecoli
12.00 Marc Meltonville, Historic Royal Palaces, London, UK — Interpreting the Tudor Kitchens of Hampton Court Palace, London. “25 years of cooking for a King”
12.30 Florent Quellier, Université d’Angers, France — The Taste of the Bourbon’s Reign and the Fabrication of the Renowned French Cuisine
13.00 Discussion
13.30 Lunch
Chair: Bruno Laurioux
15.00 Andrzej Kuropatnicki, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland — Food at the Table of the Later Stuarts. A Coronation Feast of James II
15.30 Jarosław Dumanowski, Center for Culinary Heritage, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland — 12 September, 1695 (A Feast on the Anniversary of the Battle of Vienna of 1683)
16.00 Discussion
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Discussion panel — Royal Food: metaphor, myth and story
Chair: Łukasz Modelski

Saturday, 6th October, 9.00-19.00
Chair: Massimo Montanari
9.30 Gabriel Kurczewski, Center for Culinary Heritage, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland — Royal and Popular. Hungarian wine in 17th-18th c. Poland
10.00 Galina Kabakova, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France
Diplomats at the Table of Peter the Great
10.30 Discussion
11.00 Coffee break
Chair: Florent Quellier
11.30 Özge Samanci, Özyeğin University, Turkey: Hosting a Feast for Foreign Guests in the Ottoman Palace
12.00 Fabio Parasecoli, Nutrition and Food Studies Department, New York University, USA — The Power of Taste: from royal courts to Instagram
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Visiting the Museum
15.30 Conclusions and closure of conference
16.00 Discussion panel — Reconstruction or Fantasy? Old kitchen today
Chair: Jarosław Dumanowski
18.00 Marine Granier, mezzo-soprano, musical performance