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Representing Food Research
Programme
Representing Food Research
2nd SOAS Food Studies Centre Postgraduate Research Workshop
Wednesday 17th – Thursday 18th June 2015
SOAS, University of London
Day One – Wednesday 17th June, Vernon Square Campus, room VG01
09.00 – 09.30
Registration and refreshments
09.30 – 10.45
Introduction
Keynote Talk by Melissa Caldwell (Department of Anthropology, University of
California, Santa Cruz, editor of Gastronomica)
10.45 – 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.10
Panel 1: Methods of Representation
Discussant: Jakob Klein (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
Chair: Giulia Baldinelli (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
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Fitting Family Meals in the Movement of ‘Tiešā Pirkšana': Reflecting Political,
Economic and Social Change in Latvia, Agnese Bankovska (Department of
Social Sciences, University of Helsinki)
The Value of Memory: Oral History in Food Research, Barley Blyton
(Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
Following ‘la papa nativa’: desire along the commodity network, Jose Luis
Fajardo Escoffie (Department of Social Anthropology and Visual Media,
University of Manchester)
12.10 – 13.40
Lunch Break (Candid Arts Café)
13.40 – 14.50
Panel 2: Scales of Representation
Discussant: Deborah Johnston (Department of Economics, SOAS)
Chair: Zoe Goodman (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
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Food in Narratives: Exploring, Analysing and Presenting Massive Qualitative
Data, Natacha Chevalier (Department of History, University of Sussex)
Patterns of Food Consumption in Uzbekistan Agrarian Change: Is Cotton in
Competition with Quality Food? The Case of Samarkand Province, Lorena
Lombardozzi (Department of Economics, SOAS)
Hunger Politics: Challenges in Representing ‘Shapes of Nourishment’ in the
Cape Winelands, South Africa, Carina Truyts (Department of Anthropology,
University of Cape Town)
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14.50 – 15.00
Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.10
Panel 3: Whose Representation?
Discussant: Emma-Jayne Abbots (Department of Anthropology, University of
Wales Trinity Saint David)
Chair: Zofia Boni (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
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“But what did people really eat?”: Textual Representations of Food as a
Historical Source, Lucy Dow (Department of History, UCL)
Food Significances in the Study of Romanian Culture. Some Methodological
Issues, Anca-Maria Vrajitoriu (Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest)
Perennial Polycultures: Gardening Education and “Building Community”,
Hannah Roberson (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
16.10 – 16.30
Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.40
Panel 4: Ambiguities of Representation
Discussant: Ruth Cruickshank (School of Modern Languages, Literatures and
Cultures, Royal Holloway University)
Chair: Nese Tosun (School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies,
University of Warwick)
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Representing Hackney through Food: Marketing Strategy or Urban ‘Terroir’?,
Anna Cohen (Department of Anthropology, SOAS)
A Good Chef Needs a Grandmother: Nostalgia and Innovation in the Israeli
Cuisine, Claudia Prieto Piastro (Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s
College London)
Femininity in a Bite: Consuming Gender Representations in Food
Advertisements, Daniela Pirani (Marketing Group, Royal Holloway University)
17.40 – 18.00
Closing Remarks
19.00
Workshop Dinner (Rasa Restaurant in Holiday Inn)
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Day Two – Thursday 18th June, Vernon Square Campus, room V327
09.30 – 10.00
Welcome and refreshments
10.00 – 10.30
Introducing the Day and divide into groups (John Heywood & Jane Garnham)
10.30 – 11.30
Group 1: First Presentation
Group 2: First Presentation
11.30 – 11.45
Coffee Break
11.45 – 12.45
Group 1: Second Presentation
Group 2: Second Presentation
12.45 – 14.15
Lunch Break (Candid Arts Café)
14.15 – 15.15
Group 1: Third Presentation
Group 2: Third Presentation
15.15 – 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30
Plenary: Facilitated Discussion
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