Beyond Nature: Creating Artificial Flavors
Please join the Anthropology Department and the Center for Social Sciences in welcoming Ana MarÃa Ulloa Garzón for a lecture that reconsiders the debate between natural and artificial.
On the matter, Garzón writes:
Artificiality is usually understood in opposition to nature. The term itself is quickly dismissed as a negative pole and something to be avoided in many contexts. Industrial purveyors of food, for instance, are caught in the battle against the artificial, avoiding the term in their packages at all costs, exploiting instead the label "natural" as a proxy for healthiness, wholesomeness, and nutrition. In this talk, I will take issue with the natural/artificial debate by reconsidering the conception of artificiality as artifice drawing from fieldwork undertaken in the flavor and fragrance industry and chemistry labs in the United States, Spain, and Colombia.
This event is sponsored by Anthropology and the Center for Social Sciences, with additional support from Biology, Chemistry, LAILS, and Philosophy.
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