Place

Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen

Date

24-26 June 2015  

Call for Papers

Food, feeding and eating activities are as old as life itself, but recently there has been a heightened interest in such issues within policy-making, international relations, and academic scholarship ranging from the bio-medical, philosophical, historical, and political to the social, cultural, economic, and religious. Food is both global and local: while foods, cuisines, recipes, people, and culinary cosmopolitanisms have been in global circuits of flows and circulations through various periods of history, the smells, sights, sounds, textures, and tastes of local foodscapes may evoke memories of ‘home’ and imaginations of travel alike. Moreover, with increasing numbers of people concentrated in large cities and urban agglomerations, the challenges of feeding people are becoming ever more complex. Against the backdrop of globalisation of Asia and Asian foods, this conference focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of production, consumption, distribution, disposal, and circulation of foods in and out of Asia. Read moreWe invite abstract proposals for paper presentations addressing the conference theme, but especially welcome perspectives relating to one or more of the panels listed below.

Panels

• Feeding the dead, celebrating the living: The circulation and joint consumption of foods as ritual and social practice
  Convenors: Oscar Salemink, Alexander Horstmann and Sarah Grant
• A History of Milk in Asia
  Convenor: Natasha Pairaudeau
• Politics of Vegetarianism – Identities between the individual and the community

  Convenors: Ravinder Kaur and Maansi Parpiani

• Alternative approaches to food security in Asia: what are the effects and at what cost?
  Convenors: Wusheng Yu and Jakob Roland Munch
• Eating Asian Outside of Asia: Asian Restaurants in the United States
  Convenor: Tanfer Emin Tunc 
• When Foods Travel
  Convenor: Manpreet K. Janeja
• Kyoto as Japan’s Ancient Kitchen: Feeding Tradition, Quenching Anxiety
  Convenors: Greg de St. Maurice and Takeshi Watanabe
• Dangerous eating in Asia
  Convenors: Mikkel Bunkenborg and Ayo Wahlberg
• The political economy of food production in emerging Asia: Exploring the possibilities for a labor-centered development
  Convenor: Luisa Steur
• Media Food In and Out of Contemporary Asian Food Cultures
  Convenors: Anders Riel Müller and Jonatan Leer
• The World(s) Feeding Asia
  Convenor: Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl
• Pedagogies of the Alimentary: Taste, Memory and Identity in and out of Asia
  Convenor: Francis Maravillas
• Governing Food Security and Safety in Asia
  Convenors: Chunrong Liu and Kai He
• Dialectics of belonging and othering – The significance of food in multicultural urban contexts
  Convenor: Pablo Holwitt
• Producing food sovereignty: Reclaiming healthy, tasty and local foodways in Asia
  Convenors: Saee Haldule, Daniel Münster and Julia Poerting
• Making Muslims: Food, Halal, and community in the Restaurant
  Convenor: Aparna Nair