CALL FOR PAPERS
Eat and Drink and Be Merry?
Cultural Meaning of Food and Drink in the 21st Century
A three-day conference, JUNE 3th - 5th, 2002.
Organizers: ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis),
University of Amsterdam
Mansholt Graduate School, Wageningen University
Felix Meritis Foundation
Place: FELIX MERITIS, Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
In General:
Food and drink, eating and drinking, are daily occurrences that concern us
all. Food scares (such as the foot-and-mouth disease), producers' issues,
food engineering (genetically modified foods), ecological considerations
and consumer issues as well as food abuse (such as excessive drinking,
nutritional patterns and health, etc.) are just several of the
producer/consumer oriented food concerns that have caused wide spread
academic and public debates in recent years. Nevertheless, these "simple"
activities also raise broad cultural, social and ethical issues that are
just beginning to receive the attention they deserve in academic circles.
This interdisciplinary conference will explore consumer-oriented issues of
food and drink as cultural phenomena, and recent developments concerning
the cultural implications of re-embedding eating and drinking in past and
contemporary life, from any perspective relevant to the realms of the
humanities and the social sciences: philosophy and ethics, religion,
literature, popular media (films, television, theatre, music, advertising),
history-from ancient to contemporary, psychology, gender studies,
socio-anthropology, visual and plastic arts, and more.
Structure:
1. Three keynote lectures, one on each day of the conference.
2. 6-8 parallel workshops. Each workshop will meet twice during the
conference.
3. Two plenary sessions will open and close the proceedings.
June 3 June 4 June 5
9.30-11.00 Opening Plenary lecture Plenary lecture
11.00-11.30 Coffee/tea Coffee/tea Coffee/tea
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture 3-4 parallel workshops (a-d) 3-4 parallel
workshops (e-h)
13.00-14.00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14.00-17.00 3-4 parallel workshops (a-d) 3-4 parallel workshops
(e-h) Roundtable/closing session
18.00-22.00 Reception/film Dinner Tropeninstituut (?)
Communal meals (one per day), on-line browsing, entertainment (films and
performances) and other events linked to food and drink will be provided as
optional activities during the conference.
Papers are invited on the following workshop topics:
a. Ideologies and taboos (including customs, special food restrictions,
objections to food-producing patterns)
b. Stories of eating and drinking
c. Eating and not eating
d. Calculated risks? Responses to and ethical implications of food crises
and scares
e. Social practices of eating/drinking (social pressure; meals and their
cultural place; social hierarchies; public and private eating patterns;
boundary forming)
f. Body, gender and image (preparation and production of food; sport and
fitness as related to food intake; the gendered body and its representation
by food/drink, body/soul divisions)
g. Health and healing (including magic, superstition, beliefs)
h. The media: the shaping of food/drink as cultural concepts
You are invited to send an abstract (up to 300 words), preferably as an
e-mail-attachment, to the conference directors and the ASCA office,
indicating the workshop of your choice and including your postal and e-mail
addresses. Deadline for abstracts is December 1st, 2001. Acceptance notes
will be forwarded by the end of January 2002.
Papers should reach the ASCA office by March 15, 2002, and must not exceed
4.000 words. Please note that this deadline will be strictly adhered to, as
all of the papers from each workshop will be circulated before the
conference in the form of a reader. Participants are then asked to read the
papers of their workshop ahead of time and to be prepared to actively take
part in the discussion following the papers. During the conference
participants will have 15 minutes to sum up their work in order to allow
for longer and livelier discussion following the presentations.
Participants should use at least part of their allotted 15 minutes to make
connections between their own work and that of other presenters of the
same workshop. In short, participants are asked to present ideas and
connections, rather than to 'read a paper'.
Conference Directors:
Professor Athalya Brenner, University of Amsterdam, Brenner@hum.uva.nl,
www.hum.uva.nl/~brenner
Professor Michiel Korthals, University of Wageningen,
michiel.korthals@alg.tf.wag-ur.nl,
www.sls.wageningen-ur.nl/tf/medewerkers.html#Korthals
ASCA Office:
Dr Eloe Kingma, asca@hum.uva.nl, www.hum.uva.nl/~asca, Spuistraat 210, 1012
VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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