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Call for Applications: Editor
of Food, Culture and Society
Wanted
A new editor-in-chief for Food, Culture and Society: An
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, the official journal
of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, published by Berg
Publishers (Oxford UK)
Term
3 years, starting January 1, 2009, renewable for another
3 years.
Primary Duties
Soliciting and receiving scholarly submissions to FCS
Managing the blind peer review of these submissions
Editing four issues a year of FCS
Overseeing the Editorial Board of FCS
Communicating with Berg, who copyedits, produces, and distributes FCS
Reporting on journal affairs to the ASFS
Representing the journal at conferences and other public appearances
Qualifications
Candidates should submit a statement demonstrating:
Prior editorial experience (book, journal, encyclopedia,
etc.)
Senior academic status (Assoc. or Full Professor, or the equivalent)
Current ASFS membership with 3 years of service to ASFS (Service may
include ASFS or FCS board membership or other active involvement in
ASFS affairs)
Significant international experience, reputation, and contacts in areas
central to the mission of ASFS and the journal.
Evidence from the candidate’s home institution indicating some
sort of support, which may include a course release, editorial assistance,
a stipend, credit for the job, etc.
A vision for the journal. Where to now?
Procedure
By September 1, 2008, please email your letter of application
to any member of the ASFS Editorial Nomination Committee:
Warren Belasco,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
Psyche Williams-Forson, University
of Maryland, College Park, or
Alex McIntosh, Texas A&M
University.
The Nomination Committee will submit its recommendation to the full
ASFS Board by October 1, 2008.
For more information: visit the journal
website or write Warren Belasco.
Upcoming Symposia & Calls
for Papers
Conferences are listed chronologically, with the earliest
deadlines for submission of papers first.
Resilient Culinary Cultures: Disaster, Innovation and
Change in Foodscapes
The 21st Joint Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Food
and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society
(AFHVS)
June 4 - 8, 2008
Hosted by the University of New Orleans, at Omni Royal Orleans Hotel,
in the historic French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
All tours take place on Wednesday, panels and papers and events
run from Thursday through Saturday, and business meetings will be held
on Sunday.
Click here
for additional conference information
(including the program, lodging and registration).
Conference chair and local arrangements coordinator:
David Beriss, Dept. of Anthropology,
University of New Orleans
Program chair: Alice
P. Julier, Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
Deadline for submissions: passed.
This year’s conference is being held in New Orleans, where one of
the most distinct culinary cultures in the United States is slowly --
but surely -- recovering from one of the worst disasters in American history.
This year’s theme is inspired by that juxtaposition: in a world
in which older agricultural practices and food traditions are simultaneously
vibrant and under attack, what makes a culinary culture resilient? The
floods of 2005 challenged many in New Orleans to think about what was
important in their lives, including their culinary traditions and practices.
The disaster revealed many of the inequities built on race and poverty
that framed in often unacknowledged ways the lives of farmers, fishers,
cooks and chefs -- of nearly everyone -- in the region. Yet food also
stood as a symbol of lost identity, common culture, and distinctiveness
for those who fled the floods. Food, often cooked and distributed by heroic
chefs and restaurateurs in difficult conditions after the floods, was
seen by many as the first sign that New Orleans could in fact recover.
With the recovery now showing progress, it is clear that the local culinary
culture has both survived and been significantly changed. Many culinary
cultures face similar threats -- including disasters, economic and political
globalization, corporate homogenization, massive migrations, and violent
conflicts -- to their ability to survive. How will they adapt? What kinds
of innovations allow us to speak of ongoing or even new culinary cultures?
At the same time, in other parts of the world, governments and other economic
players are revamping and sustaining local culinary traditions and identities
to exploit their political and commercial potential. New Orleans will
provide a fascinating context to think through these questions.
Although ASFS and AFHVS encourage a broad spectrum of topics at our conferences,
this year we are enthusiastically encouraging papers and sessions that
speak directly to the theme, particularly as resilience operates within
historical and contemporary contexts of inequality, consumer cultures,
international trade, and globalization. Panels that focus on race, ethnicity,
gender, and social class are particularly welcome. The conference organizers
also encourage full panel submissions and roundtable sessions on all topics
related to the social, cultural, political, and ethical organization of
food and agriculture.
Paper and panel topics include, but are not limited to:
Sustainability of food and agriculture;
Foodways & cultural contexts of food, food preparation, and eating;
Cultural geography of food, time, and place;
Historical origins & social implications of agriculture, nutrition,
food technologies, and the science of food production;
Culinary history, gastronomy, and culinary cultures;
Local, global, and regional food systems;
Food, communities, change and development;
Pedagogical practices related to food, culture, nutrition, food systems
and agriculture;
Research practices & issues in agriculture, food, and nutrition;
Politics & policies pertaining to agriculture, food, food science,
and nutrition;
Inequality, food access, and food security;
Food safety under global market economies;
Ethics and philosophy related to food, culture, nutrition, food systems,
and agriculture;
Food- & agriculture-related activism & social movements;
Nutrition, nutrition education, & community nutrition;
Food, culture, & the media;
Art and literature related to food, culture, nutrition, food systems,
and agriculture;
Varieties of food knowledge: indigenous, industrial, and hybrid.
Tours, Tastings and Other Local Events to be organized with the enthusiastic
assistance of the Crescent City Farmer’s Market, the New Orleans
Culinary History Group, the New Orleans Slow Food Convivium, the Southern
Foodways Alliance, the White Boot Brigade, the Culinary Arts Program at
Delgado Community College, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and many
others.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, in
the heart of the French Quarter. Single or double occupancy rooms are
available for the group rate of $119 per night until May 5, 2008. Call
(800) 578-0500 to contact Omni Group reservations, or visit their website
to make your reservation (with the group rate) on-line. The hotel is located
at 621 St. Louis St. and may be reached directly at (504) 529-5333.
BSA
Food Study Group: A Food, Society and Public Health Conference
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th July, 2008
The British Library Conference Centre, London
Keynote speakers: Claude Fischler, EHSS and CNRS, Paris and Allison James,
University of Sheffield
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29 February 2008
The aim of this conference is to explore the interface between food, society
and public health through a sociological lens. Practices and decisions
involving food are not solely matters of individual behaviour or action
and food and health therefore need to be considered within the context
of families, communities, other social groups, and society at large.
Does exploring food allow scholars to look beyond what is eaten to highlight
fundamental differences between segments of society? Understanding differences
in food consumption patterns could offer wider insights into, for example,
social class, ethnicity, self-identity or the life course and the implications
of these patterns for social and health inequalities. This conference
will bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested
in addressing such questions.
Contemporary social, health and food-related policies often link the
consumption of food with dietary health and emphasis is placed on the
importance of personal "choice". From a sociological perspective,
this raises a number of questions that could be explored: do individuals
generally connect what they eat with their health (or weight)?
Has the pleasure of eating or sharing a "good meal" been forgotten
in policy?
What are children taking from public health messages about food and
health?
It is also important to consider what role government (and the food
industry) should play in assuring food safety and editing the food "choices"
that are available. What other factors influence our "choices"
and where we shop for food?
Are there alternative policy options for improving diet and public health?
The format of the conference will allow for in-depth presentation and
discussion of key topics along with shorter sessions for the presentation
of emerging findings, work in progress and new research from postgraduate
students. Abstracts for oral papers, posters and panels or symposia will
be considered by the conference programme committee.
Further details and online abstract submission
form available shortly.
The abstract submission deadline is Friday 29th February 2008. Abstracts
received after this date will not be considered.
Please direct any administrative enquiries to Liz
Jackson and any academic enquiries to Wendy
Wills.
Wendy Wills
Co-convenor, BSA Food Study Group/ SCOFF
Telephone: 01707 286165
The Meaning of Food: Culinary Choices as Expressions of Cultural
Values
Rocky Mountain MLA
Reno, NV
October 9-11, 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2008
As increasing numbers of artists and citizens turn their attention to
the ways that our food choices convey and contest personal and cultural
values, this panel seeks papers that analyze representations of food,
food production, and/or food ritual. The panel is open to discussions
of
the representation of food in fiction, non-fiction, or film or to comparative
approaches that engage with the question of the meaning of
food choices (or lack of choices).
Please email 300 word abstract by March 1 to Laura
White.
An International Symposium: Cognitive Approaches to the Concept of
Food in the Mediterranean Cultures
Girne American University
May 7-8, 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2008
Venue
Cognitive Sciences
Linguistics
Anthropology
Education
Translation Studies
History
Literature
Jewish Studies
Sephardic Culture
British Culture
American Culture
Cypriot Culture
Turkish Culture
Communication Studies Various cultures live in the Mediterranean. Various
civilizations have lived in Turkey and Cyprus. Also, the immigrants brought
their own food to Turkey and Cyprus. Sephardim came to the Ottoman Empire
after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Additionally, Ashkenazim settled
in Turkey. Cyprus have had Turkish, Greek, Jewish, Armenian, Italian,
and British inhabitants for centuries.
In this symposium, we wish to focus on the food culture of various cultural
groups that live in Turkey, Cyprus, and in other Mediterranean countries,
and investigate the relationship between the food culture and cognition
in different fields, such as Linguistics, Anthropology, Education, Translation
Studies, History, Literature, and Jewish Studies.
We expect to receive the 150-250 word abstracts of your presentations
and 5 (five) keywords for your presentations by March 01, 2008.
20 (twenty) minutes will be given for each presentation, and 10 (ten)
minutes will be left for questions.
Papers of the accepted abstracts should be written in the APA style.
Papers should be submitted at the end of the symposium.
Abstract Submission
Derya Agis
Department of Translation and Interpreting
Phone: +90 392 650 20 00 / 1101
Girne American University
Karmi Campus, Karaoglanoglu, Girne, K.K.T.C. Mersin 10, Turkey
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 01, 2008
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: March 15, 2008
Paper Submission: May 8, 2008
Registration Fee: $150
Accomodation and Registration
For online registration form visit website.
Method of Payment
Turkey Is Bank
Girne Branch
USD Account number: TR290006400000268100077163
Euro Account number: TR320006400000268108497000
Saberes y Prácticas de la Alimentacion en America Latina
Simposio No. 7: Ii Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropologia
Universidad de Costa Rica, 28 a 31 de julio 2008
Los invitamos a enviar sus propuestas para participar del Simposio: “Saberes
y Prácticas de la Alimentación" en el marco del II
Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropología (ALA), que se llevará
a cabo entre el 28 de julio y el 31 de julio del 2008, en la Universidad
de Costa Rica.
Las propuestas deben ser enviadas a los tres coordinadores del simposio
como ponencia terminada para su posterior selección, con fecha
límite de 15 de marzo de 2008. En abril de ese año se dará
publicidad a la totalidad de las ponencias aceptadas. No se reciben abstracts.
Para mayores precisiones sobre el formato de las ponencias ver archivo
adjunto. Para consultas sobre inscripciones, programa y hotelería,
ver el sitio
oficial del II ALA.
Coordinadores
Marcelo Alvarez (INAPL Argentina)
Renata Menasche (UFRGS,
Brasil)
Miriam Bertrán
(UAM Xochimilco, México)
Food and War in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Paris, September 2009
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2008
ICREFH
has held biennial symposia since 1989 on various topics of European food
history, each of which has resulted in the publication of a book of the
papers given. To date, nine volumes are in print and a tenth is in preparation.
These symposia are notable for the use of pre-circulated papers so that
sessions consist of workshop-type discussions. ICREFH's Eleventh Symposium
will be held in Paris early in September 2009.
The aim of the Symposium is to shed some light on the question of how
wars and food are related to each other and how they are intertwined.
How did the special circumstances of war lead to the development of new
eating and drinking customs and patterns? How did it help to promote new
foods or to replace others? How did war help new consumption patterns
to develop? Did war provoke the development of gendered eating styles,
did it stabilize male and female consumption patterns or did it destabilize
them? What long-term effects of wartime foods on public health can be
observed in Europe? Did governments try to learn from these experiences
and did war influence health policy after the end of war(s)? All of these
questions make interesting topics for contributions. The Symposium hopes
to create a perspective of comparison within Europe.
Further information about the Symposium can be found in the forthcoming
ICREFH Newsletter for Spring 2008. To request a copy if you are not normally
on the ICREFH mailing list, please email.
Papers may be offered in one of the four following sub-themes.
To stimulate discussion at the Symposium, contributors should address
one or more of the following research questions in their papers.
Papers should not only describe the development of particular topics,
but should also assess the short and long term consequences that affect
nutritional habits of today.
Food allocation, food shortages and rationing in time of war:
How was food allocated for the civilian population during twentieth-century
European wars?
How did government strategies differ in Europe?
Were the armed forces given priorities in food allocation?
What food was considered necessary for the fighting man?
What rations were allocated to the armed services and civilians? What
role did nutritional sciences play in these decisions?
Alternative strategies for consumers:
Did food control and food shortages alter consumer behaviour during
European wars in the twentieth century?
Did governments provide recipes and nutritional information for civilians?
Did the black market have a significant effect on food supply during
wartime?
The social and health implications of wartime food consumption:
Did war change patterns of eating and eating behaviour in either the
short or long term?
Were governments stimulated to develop food and nutrition policies by
war? Did these policies persist in the post war era in the long term?
Were food-related diseases present in wartime Europe?
Innovations in food supply and technology during wartime:
Did war accelerate innovations in food processing and preservation?
What "inventions" were made and how and where were they implemented?
Did technological change persist to influence postwar food consumption?
Anyone wishing to propose a paper for ICREFH XI should complete the attached
Application Form (see list of required information, below).
It is essential that an abstract of up to 200 words is supplied.
Papers will be selected for the Symposium by ICREFH's Technical Committee
and proposers who are successful will be informed by 31 May 2008 and sent
further information.
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Food and Power
Special Issue of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies
Editors
Ezekiel Flannery (Purdue University Calumet)
Diana Mincyte (University of Illinois)
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2008
This special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies focuses
on the problematics of food and eating from a range of critical perspectives.
We invite contributions that address issues of food and power, knowledge,
culture, science and technology, and (de)colonialism.
All cultures must transform nature or natural materials into subsistence
and these transformations involve many socio-cultural processes. Focusing
on these processes illuminates inequalities of class, race/ethnicity,
gender, sexuality, and age, among others, which are increasingly global
in scope. Food also reveals a culture’s way of knowing and relating
to nature, its conceptualization of hygiene, its imperial/colonial experiences,
and its national and ethnic identities. In short, the processes surrounding
food give insight into a culture’s overall way of living or cosmology.
In the modern or modern/colonial regime, the transformation of nature
into food also involves a specific configuration of capital, science,
technology, and powerful institutions that work together to standardize
diets and everyday experiences with food, including the methods and knowledge
used to produce it. This in turn has led to the creation of a standardized
discourse which is used to speak about food. In addition to the macro-politics,
food-related processes also function as a resource for individual protest
as well as a community-building space and a ritual for the reaffirmation
of group alliances. To take into account the complexities of food and
eating, this special issue will focus on food as a series of social processes
which highlight the hierarchies within and between human, economic, technological
and natural systems.
With this in mind, we invite a critical discussion of what is understood
by the term food and how food-related processes can be contextualized
politically and ethically. We are interested in articles that move beyond
(Northern) political-economy perspectives that often center on food production,
consumption and distribution. We strongly encourage submissions that examine
experiences, practices, and discourses surrounding food, through which
power relations are produced.
In addition to these issues we seek contributions from a wide range
of perspectives on the intersection between food, ethics and politics.
This includes but is not limited to:
Food and science
Food and modernity/coloniality
Race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and nutritional politics
Body politics and food
Hunger and globalization
Environmental politics and food
Food and ideological systems
Food safety/bio-terrorism
Food industrialization and standardization
Green marketplaces
Publication Schedule
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2008 (800-1000 words)
Send abstracts to Ezekiel
Flannery.
Full manuscripts will be due July 1, 2008. Final drafts will be due November
1, 2008. Manuscripts should follow APA style and be no more than 30 pages
in length. This special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies
will appear in the first half of 2009.
Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary
quarterly journal published by Sage and devoted to promoting those scholarly
traditions in the social sciences and the humanities which are premised
on a critical, performance-based cultural studies agenda at the intersection
of interpretive theory, critical methodology, culture, media, history,
biography and social structure. Visit the web page of the journal.
Geographic Contributions to Agro-biodiversity Conservation
Association of American Geographers, 2008 Annual Meeting
April 15-19th
Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline for submissions: not specified
Research on the spatial and temporal dynamics of agricultural biodiversity
and their conservation, both historically and contemporary, have interested
geographers and other related disciplines for centuries. Viewing conservation
strategies through the lenses of traditional agriculturists and their
practices offers a valuable framework for examination of such topics as:
genetic erosion, traditional germplasm management, gender and agriculture,
agricultural development, domestication, centers of agro-biodiversity,
human ecology of agriculture, and agricultural evolution. We invite scholars
engaged in research that focuses on some aspect of agro-biodiversity conservation
to submit papers for a session(s) focusing on empirical and theoretical
work that engages a conceptual geographic framework.
Please send expressions of interests to co-chairs:
Kimberlee
J. Chambers
or
Laura R. Lewis
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