Events

All events are free and open to the public. For more information contact the director, Dan Schlapbach, at 410-671-5854 or Patty Ingram at 410-617-2617.

Keynote Address

TUESDAY, MARCH 10
McGuire Hall - 7 p.m. 
American Cuisine: A Revolution and an Identity Crisis
Presented by Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of “The Splendid Table®” from American Public Media

Films

• THURSDAY, JANUARY 29
  Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium - 6:30 p.m. 
  Film and Food Festival
  Sample appetizers while watching Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, 1994, Taiwan, and episodes from PBS Home Video’s “The Meaning of Food,” Executive Producer Sue McLaughlin, 2005, USA.
  
• THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12
  Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium - 6:30 p.m.
  Film and Food Festival
  Take a taste of Big Night, Directors Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott, 1996, USA, and episodes from “The Meaning of Food,” Executive Producer Sue McLaughlin, 2005, PBS Home Video, USA.
  
• TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
  Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium - 7:00 p.m.
  Catholic Studies Film Series, Fr. Joseph Rossi, S.J. moderator
  Director Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast
  Snacks provided
  
• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
  McManus Theatre - 6:30 p.m.
  King Corn
  Screening and conversation with filmmakers Aaron Woolf and Ian Cheney, 2007, USA.

Artwork by Nicole Hock '10

Lectures

• TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
  McGuire Hall - 6 p.m.
  "Real Food for Real Kids"  
  Tony Geraci, Director of Food and Nutrition for Baltimore City Schools
  
• THURSDAY, MARCH 12
  Sellinger Hall Room 104 - 7:30 p.m.
  "As Locavores Go, So Go Local Journos; A Discussion & Tasting"
  Panel: Renee Brooks Catacalos (Publisher and Editor of Edible Chesapeake magazine),  Mary Zajac (food writer for Style, Urbanite, Baltimore  Magazine, Saveur and City Paper), Elaine Eff, PhD (folklorist and writer at the Maryland Historical Trust, Division of Historical and Cultural Programs, Maryland Dpeartment of Planning), Bridget Sampson (writer, community activitst and co-owner of the Dogwood restaurant in Hampden and sister cafe in downtown Baltimore), and  panel moderator, Stephanie Shapiro (visiting journalist in the Department of Communication at Loyola and frequent chronicler of local food)
  
• MONDAY, MARCH 16
  Knott Hall B03 - 7 p.m.
  "Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Intersections of Food and Power"      
  Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
  
• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 
  McGuire Hall West - 4 p.m.
  "What Does a Renaissance Hero Eat? Feasting Knights, Gluttonous Friars—Baldus and Friends Rein in Their Appetites"       
  Dr. Ann E. Mullaney, Independent Scholar and Translator
  
• MONDAY, MARCH 23
  4th Floor Program Room - 5 p.m. 
  "Horizontal Women: Gender and Dining Customs in Ancient Rome"   
  Dr. Matthew Roller, Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
  
• FRIDAY, MARCH 27
  Knott Hall B03 - 3:30 p.m.
  "Too Many People at the Table? Hospitality, Immigration and Procreation in American Culture"
  Dr. Amy Laura Hall, Professor of Duke University Divinity School
  
• MONDAY, APRIL 6
  Andrew White Student Center 4th Floor Programming Room - 6:30 p.m.
  "The Art of Eating: Gastronomical Aesthetics?"
  Dr. Denise Gigante, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University
  

Fine Arts, Drama and Music

• THURSDAY, JANUARY 22
  Julio Fine Arts Gallery - 5-7 p.m.
  Meat & Sugar    
  An exhibition of artwork by Mike Geno and Stewart Watson. Artists’ talk and reception featuring Dangerously Delicious Pies and music by the Loyola College Jazz Combo. Exhibition dates January 12 - February 8.
  
• TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
  Black Box Theater - 7 p.m.
  Adapting The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Various Approaches    
  Students of DR357: Dramatic Adaptation; Instructor James Bunzli
  
• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
  McManus Theatre - 7:30 p.m. 
  Food, Glorious Food   
  Celebrate food and drink through song, dramatic readings, and film with members of the DaCamera Singers and Players under the direction of Ernest Liotti.

Tastes of Baltimore

• SATURDAY, JANUARY 24
  Shuttle departs from behind Boulder Garden Café at 11 a.m. 
  11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 
  Cross Street Market Excursion
  
• SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21
  Shuttle departs from behind Boulder Garden Café at 11 a.m.
  11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 
  Explore Lexington Market
  
• SATURDAY, MARCH 21
  Shuttle departs from behind Boulder Garden Café at 10 a.m.
  10 a.m. - Noon
  Waverly Farmers’ Market Tour

Something Special

• SATURDAY, MARCH 14
  Members of the Loyola community are invited to work on the Baltimore City school farm to learn something about local, sustainable agriculture and how it related to our local school system. There will be some physical labor involved.  For information call 410-617-2590. There is also a sign up sheet outside office (DS376). There will be vans and/or a carpool arranged for transportation.
  8 am - 1 pm
  

Events coordinated with support from the office of the dean of first-year students and academic services, and the office of student life. Persons with disabilities who may require special services should contact the office of disability support services at 410-617-2062 or (TTD) 410-617-2141 at least 48 hours prior to the event.