We invite you to submit an abstract for the conference and look forward to receiving papers on the conference theme from Ph.D. and early-career researchers interested in food. The conference is inter-disciplinary and welcomes participation and contributions from diverse perspectives. Share your interpretations of the themes to challenge us to realise new connections between places, disciplines and concepts. Food scholars are encouraged to inspire their peers, to learn from unusual allies and to seek answers in unexpected sources. In the spirit of new connections, the conference is trialling innovative ways of preparing an academic conference and aims to establish an enduring inter-disciplinary and international network in food studies.
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.
