Forum Origin, Diversity and Territories
The variety of organizations involved in what is loosely referred to as the “food movement” is sometimes quite astonishing. Even for anthropologists, who are supposed to be trained…
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Healthy Eating Research Grants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors a program called Healthy Eating Research through which they support research on healthy eating among children. The program recently released a call…
Residences, Rentals and Redolent Delectables: Women entrepreneurs and the Japanese baking industry
By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she…
Got Food Studies Essays?
The semester is ending for many universities here in North America and students are furiously completing their final papers. There may be food-related research gold in those papers!…
Food Systems Sourcebook
We often get requests here at FoodAnthropology for information on food studies programs and on other resources related to food and nutrition. The collective knowledge of SAFN members…
Latino Memphis
By Simone Pierre Delerme Memphis’ Summer Avenue has become an enclave with a concentration of Latino-owned restaurants and small businesses. Along the corridor, one will find some…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 23, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
CHNY Scholars Grant Awards 2018
From the Culinary Historians of New York, small grants of interest to SAFN readers who are engaged in current research projects. They do not have to focus on…
MOOC “Sustainable food systems: a Mediterranean perspective”
This is an announcement for a free, on-demand, on-line, course on sustainable food systems. It is an intriguing model for providing certain kinds of education about food (and…
A Call for Blog Posts!
A Call for Blog Posts on Certain Timely Themes! We invite anthropologists of any persuasion to contribute to a dialogue about contemporary cultural issues! The current cultural conversation…
Postdoc Opportunity in Sustainability & Food Security
We have received notification from Katarzyna Dembska, BCFN YES! Coordinator, of the latest edition of their postdoc program in sustainability and food security. This is clearly a great…
AAA CFP: Time and Power in Agrarian Environments
CFP: AAA 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 2018 San Jose, California Organizers: Natalia Gutkowski (Harvard University) and Ashawari Chaudhuri (MIT) Time and …
Christine Wilson Award Submissions Due on July 27, 2018
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) is pleased to invite students to submit papers in competition for the Christine Wilson Awards presented to outstanding…
Where (You Might Think) There’s No Tienda
This fourth installment of the series, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” introduces the work of Teresa Mares, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Vermont. Mares̵…
THE 1st BIANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD AND COMMUNICATION
It may be a bit bold to declare a conference the 1st biannual (what if there never is a 2nd one?), but the organizers of this particular conference…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, March 12, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Southern Foodways Alliance 2018 Graduate Student Conference: Food Studies Across the Disciplines
Received from the Southern Foodways Alliance…this annual conference has proven to be very useful for graduate students with interests in food over the last few years. Oxford, Mississippi…
CFP: Consuming In, and Consumed By, a Trump Economy
The CFP below is for a mini-conference the day before the next annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. It may be of interest to SAFN members and…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, February 19, 2019
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
AFHVS/ASFS CFP Deadline Extended!
Extended deadline for the upcoming AFHVS/ASFS conference. You have another week! Don’t miss it. The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems is pleased to ho…
News of the New Year at SAFN
David Beriss President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Happy New Year! We have news of changes here at FoodAnthropology and, more broadly, at the Society…
Sustainable Development Postdoc
The following announcement was received from Amy Trubek, who notes that there are several UVM Food Systems faculty affiliated with the Gund Institute. That, along with the fact…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, December 22, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Kiddush: Local Flavor
Leslie Carlin The ‘Kiddush’ lunch is a tradition at many synagogues, including the one I belong to in downtown Toronto. It’s a shared meal to which all are…