This is a call for papers for the panel, 'A History of Milk in Asia' which will run at the upcoming conference Food, Feeding, and Eating In and Out of Asia. The conference will take place from 24-26 June 2015 and is part of the Asian Dynamics Initiative at the University of Copenhagen.
The call for papers and all conference panels can be found at this link:
http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/adi_food_2015/cf_papers/
If you feel your own research could add to this discussion, please do get in touch. I can be reached at np405@cam.ac.uk (and please copy in Erich De Wald - E.dewald@UCS.AC.UK, and Jonathan Saha -J.Saha@bristol.ac.uk ). Abstracts are due to the organising committee by 12 March 2015.

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Marcus J. Borg, a scholar who popularized a liberal intellectual approach to Christianity with his lectures and books about Jesus as a historical figure, died on Wednesday at his home in Powell Butte, Ore. He was 72.
His publisher, HarperOne, said the cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. He was 95. Mr. Brooke won his Senate seat by nearly a half-million votes in 1966 and was re-elected in 1972. He remains the only black senator ever to have been returned to office.

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