A reminder that the conference is for PhD and early career researchers.

Those who have already submitted abstracts will also need to register. The call for papers is open until 19 February so you still have time to submit one.

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Please stay tuned for forthcoming conference information and final programme.

Themes

“Food is what connects us all to each other and to the natural world, which makes it an incredibly powerful medium for thinking and acting collaboratively.” – Carolyn Steel author of Hungry City.

What we eat and where it comes from are fundamental questions in light of today’s global challenges around issues such as health, agriculture, development and sustainability. A sound food system is central to the resilience of society, economy and environment, and, as one of life’s essentials, food is unique in its power to communicate such concepts to the public. But whilst food is a topic which can touch almost every academic discipline, research is too frequently confined by subject boundaries.

This conference will bring together those studying food, no matter what their backgrounds, to generate unique and enlightening perspectives that can break disciplinary boundaries and forge new relationships both conceptually and personally. It will consider questions such as:

• What does a resilient food system taste like?
• Can food be a key to unlocking transition?
• What is the recipe for a healthy community?
• Is good practice a moveable feast?
• Fair for whom: where is the justice in sustainable food?
• Are we going global, local or glocal?
• How do we eat: do we understand the socio-cultural issues of food?

Programme

The day will include:

• Key note speech from Professor Anne Murcott, Professor Emerita (Sociology), South Bank University, London, and honorary professorships at City University and the University of Nottingham.
• Welcome from Terry Marsden Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute, Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, and Co-Director of the BRASS Research Centre.
• Closing remarks from Susan Baker Professor of Environmental Social Science in the School of Social Sciences and a Principal Investigator of the Sustainable Places Research Institute.
• Round table discussions on topics selected in advance by participants; and
• Paper sessions for presentations of student research. 

To see the latest programme, visit http://placetoplate.wordpress.com/programme/

Call for papers

PhD and early career researchers are invited to submit abstracts for paper presentations on any of the conference themes listed above. We welcome individual presentations, groups of themed presentations, joint papers and innovative ways of presenting research. Please state in your abstract whether you are proposing a single presentation, panel theme, or visual display. Presentations should be no more than 15 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and submitted by email to placetoplate@cardiff.ac.uk by the deadline of 19 February 2012.

The conference has received funding from Cardiff University Graduate College.

So this is an invitation to have a say about the programme: tell us what you’d like to happen and what you’d like the conference to ‘look like’. This might include:

·         topics for roundtable discussions

·         themes for panels

·         ways to encourage collaboration

·         novel ways of presenting research.

We’re thinking of inviting a couple of interesting food scholars to provide podcasts to prompt debate. Let us know what you think and who we might ask.

Just leave a comment on our Participate page, or email us at placetoplate@cardiff.ac.uk with your ideas.

Thanks! We value and appreciate your participation, and we hope that together we will produce a conference that is more stimulating, productive and enjoyable that we could do alone.