Food Communication

The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites paper proposals for “Devouring Japan,” a 2-day interdisciplinary conference on Japanese food and food cultures, to be held in Austin on February 21-22, 2014. Building on growing academic interest in food studies, the conference seeks to explore five themes that will [...]

Announcing the Launch of CuiZine‘s Best Student Paper Award CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures is launching its first Student Paper Award. With this contest, CuiZine hopes to reach out to the next generation of food studies scholars. We invite submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, art history, cultural studies, communications, environmental studies, ethnography, folklore, geography, [...]

The Roger Smith Conferences on Food (formerly the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference) invites proposals for the conference, “Food Technologies Past and Present,” which will take place on April 4-6, 2014 at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City. The organizers of Food Technologies Past and Present welcome proposals for either general suggestions about possible [...]

The Sue Samuelson Award for Foodways Scholarship The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society is pleased to announce the Sue Samuelson Award for the best student paper on food and foodways. Papers should be based on original fieldwork or research and should utilize current folkloric approaches to interpretation. The contest is open to undergraduate [...]

The Roger Smith Conferences on Food (formerly the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference) invites proposals for the conference, “Food Technologies Past and Present,” which will take place on April 4-6, 2014 at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City. The organizers of Food Technologies Past and Present welcome proposals for either general suggestions about possible [...]

2nd Global Conference Making Sense of: Food Monday 4th November 2013 – Wednesday 6th November 2013 Athens, Greece Call for Presentations ‘You are what you eat’ is a saying that usually signifies the influence of diet on health and well-being. When we turn this adage around – ‘What you eat is what you are’ – [...]

http://www.southernsare.org/Grants/Apply-for-a-Grant GRIFFIN, Georgia – The Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) Call for Pre-proposals for the Professional Development Program (PDP) Grants is now open. The Professional Development Program is a “train the trainer” program, providing funding to agricultural professionals to train Cooperative Extension agents, USDA field personnel, and other ag professionals and educators in areas of sustainable agriculture production [...]

http://www.iras.org/2013.html SCIENTIFIC, SPIRITUAL, AND MORAL CHALLENGES IN SOLVING THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE Fifty-ninth Annual Summer Conference Silver Bay, New York July 27 to August 3, 2013  Co-Chairs: Solomon H Katz and Pat Bennett Food occupies a central place in human life. Not only are its nutrients necessary for our survival, but feasting, fasting, and sharing are integral [...]

New Forms of Agriculture: Ordinary practices, public debate and social critique Flyer attached, excerpt below. Please excuse the formatting issues… CFP-New Forms of Ag At least since the 1990s, an array of new social movements (Via Campesina, the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil, various campaigns for food sovereignty and food justice) and public initiatives (national targets for [...]