When: |
28 Mar 2020 through 29 Mar 2020 | |
CFP Deadline: |
31 |
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Where: |
London, United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
https://food.lcir.co.uk | |
Sponsoring organization: |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research | |
Categories: |
Life Sciences - Food-Science / Forestry |
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Event description:
Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.
This conference will explore food as a 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
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