LCIR 2028 - Culinary Evolutions - International Conference on Food studies

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Category Food; culinary; eating; cooking

Deadline: February 20, 2020 | Date: August 22, 2028

Venue/Country: Birkbeck University, London, U.K.

Updated: 2019-12-11 21:55:05 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

This conference will explore food as a complex cultural product, an indicator of social, religious and political identity. It will focus on people's relationship with food and discuss how food choices are determined by historical period, region, class, gender, kinship and/or ethnicity.

The conference will approach the study of food across a range of disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, culture studies, politics, economics, medicine, biology, psychology, etc.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

Food systems and diets

Eating/drinking habits and etiquettes

Food and rituals

Cooking/eating spaces

Culinary professions

Food and health

Food and power

Hunger, starvation, and malnutrition

Dangerous foods and poisons

Cookbooks and food magazines

Culinary festivals and TV shows

Food in social media

Food as pleasure

Gastronomic tourism

Food, biodiversity and sustainability

Agriculture and food technology

Food safety and quality

Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 20 February 2020 to: foodlcir.co.uk. Please download Paper proposal form.

Registration fee – 100 GBP

Provisional conference venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX