On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) at New York University, the Center was interested in organizing a series of programs and events to reflect on food as a nexus for discussions about philanthropy, social justice, and cultural exchange across the global Hispanophone. We at the KJCC were especially interested in thinking about how food (discourse and matter) could be an occasion to study, challenge, and rethink the linguistic, geographic, and material boundaries that traditionally define fields like Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Peninsular studies. In its transfer across different times and spaces, while also carrying, conserving, and sustaining ideas and traditions from points of origin and exchange, we felt that through this interdisciplinary discussion of food, the KJCC could serve as a platform for bringing together scholars from food studies who might otherwise not sit across the same (virtual)...

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