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.
2013
January
11/01/13
- Making Aquaculture a Component of Food Security for Developing Countries
Peter Gardiner, Executive Director, Independent Science & Partnership Council, The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
16/01/13
- A Life Writing About Food
Claudia Roden
18/01/13
- The Spread of Smaller Scale Rural Mechanisation in some South Asian Countries
Stephen Biggs, Research Fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
21/01/13
- Supermarkets: A Workshop to Discuss an Emerging Field of Study
Prof Harry G. West, Dr. Michael Goodman, Dr. Emma-Jayne Abbots, and Dr. Ben Coles
25/01/13
- Food, Peace and Human Thriving in a Changing World: New Paradigms and Practices for the 21st Century
Geoff Tansey, Writer, Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University and Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University
30/01/13
- Vegetarianism in India
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
February
01/02/13
- Creating a Zambian Breadbasket: 'Land Grabs' and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in Mkushi District, Zambia
Jessica Chu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London
08/02/13
- ‘We Didn’t Want to Hear About Calories’: Rethinking Food Security, Food Power and Food Sovereignty - Lessons from the Gaza Closure
Aeyal Gross, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University and Visiting Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
22/02/13
- Rice supply and State Building in Jiangnan and Taiwan, 1949-1953
Julia Strauss, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London
27/02/13
- Food in Hindu Sacraments
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
March
01/03/13
- Food, Trauma and Identity: Memories of Polish Women Deported during the Second World War
Monica Janowski, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, and Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London; and Research Officer, Caritas Social Action Network
08/03/13
- Biofortification and the Biopolitics of Sustainable Development
Sally Brooks, Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
15/03/13
- Milk, Muck and Red Tape: Quality Assurance Schemes and Farmers' Record keeping Practices in the French and UK Dairy Sectors
Laura Sayre, Research Associate, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Dijon
20/03/13
- The Six Tastes of Ayurveda
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
22/03/13
- Tales of the Not Entirely Unexpected: Life Histories of Coffee, Tea and Flower Workers in Ethiopia and Uganda
Christopher Cramer, Deborah Johnston, Carlos Oya
Christopher Cramer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
Deborah Johnston, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London
Carlos Oya, Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development, SOAS, University of London
