SOAS Food Studies Centre - Events
The SOAS Food Studies Centre organises the SOAS Food Forum (a weekly seminar series held in terms 1 and 2), the SOAS Food Studies Distinguished Lectures, and a number of workshops, conferences and special events annually.
2012
January
13/01/12
- From Farming to Agriculture to Globalization
Henry Bernstein, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and Professorial Research Associate of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS
20/01/12
- The Global Water and Food Security Challenge: Sustainable Intensification and Local and Global Food Supply Chains?
Tony Allan, Professor of Geography, King’s College London, and Professorial Research Associate, DeFiMS and Development Studies, SOAS
27/01/12
- Did Food Prices Plant the Seeds of the Arab Spring?
Jane Harrigan, Professor of Economics, SOAS
February
03/02/12
- Experiencing Fieldwork: An Investigation of Rural-Urban Linkages and Food Security in Guatemala
Ioulia Fenton, 2011 Graduate of the M.Sc. Development Studies, SOAS, and Antony Ellman, Chairman of the Tropical Agriculture Association Award Fund (which supported Ms. Fenton’s M.Sc. dissertation fieldwork)
10/02/12
- Can We Feed the World?
Sir Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development, Imperial College
24/02/12
- Food and City Systems
Michael Duff, Associate Consultant in Strategy, Design and Sustainability, Happold Consulting, and Guest Lecturer, UCL Sustainable Urbanism M.Sc. and LSE Cities Programme
March
02/03/12
- The Sustainability of Organic Agriculture in Developing Countries: Lessons from China
Richard Sanders, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Northampton
09/03/12
- Global Food Security: Can Intensification be Sustainable?
Brian Wynne, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
16/03/12
- Eating as the Moral Philosophy of Everyday Life
Richard Wilk, Provost Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
19/03/12
- Cooking, Cuisine and Class in the Anthropology of Food Today
The list of particpants is confirmed below
22/03/12
- Salt Water Margin: Red Rice, Reclamations, and Restaurateurs along the South China Coast (An Ethnographic Puzzle)
James L. Watson (Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University)
23/03/12
- Towards a Real Sustainable Agri-food Security and Food Policy: Beyond the Ecological Fallacies?
Terry Marsden, Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning and Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
October
12/10/12
- Preserving Pastoralist Milk Traditions with the Samburu of Northern Kenya
William Rubel, Independent Food Historian/Jane Levi, Doctoral Candidate, The London Consortium
19/10/12
- Bringing the City to the Country: Food Consumption and Aesthetics in Rural South Africa
Elizabeth Hull, Lecturer in Anthropology, SOAS, University of London
26/10/12
- Printed Cookery Books: What They Can and Cannot Tell Us
Anne Murcott, Professorial Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London
November
02/11/12
- The Road to El Dorado: Old and New Avenues to Develop Functional Foods and Herbal Medical Products
Michael Heinrich, Professor and Head of Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, UCL School of Pharmacy
16/11/12
- Eating, Drinking and Re-thinking Leftovers: Case Studies from Post-War French Culture
Ruth Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in French, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway
23/11/12
- Food is Good, but Eating is Bad: The Dis/ordering of Academic Literature 1950-2009
Emma Uprichard, Associate Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
28/11/12
- Good food for everyone forever: A people’s takeover of the world’s food supply
Colin Tudge (Biologist, Writer, Co-founder of the Campaign for Real Farming)
30/11/12
- Global Networks and New Histories of Rice
Francesca Bray, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
December
07/12/12
- Where's the Kitchen? Technology, Space and Heritage in the Historic English Household
Sara Pennell, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History, University of Roehampton
14/12/12
- Polenta and Pellagra: Diet, Disease and the Medical Community in Italy, 1750-1950
David Gentilcore, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Leicester
14/12/12
- Persian Food Culture in Britain
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