What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, July 3, 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…
Tag: Food Studies
Food Studies for Anthropologists
David Beriss I have just returned from the joint annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values…
CFP: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics
We have received the following call for proposals from David Kaplan, which may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers and researchers: Call for proposals: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural…
American Food
There is a lot of innovative teaching being done in food studies and we like to feature it here whenever we hear about it. Last year we noted…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, May 12, 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…
CFP: Food Security in the Pacific
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana January 30 to February 4, 2018 Deadline for Submissions: 1 November 2017 As the effects of climate change…
Great Food Conference Program
Los Angeles is one of the great food cities of the world. So, logically, it should be one of the great places to have a food studies conference.…
CFP: The Future of Food Studies
We recently received this call for papers for a graduate student conference that should be of interest to our members or their students. At the very end of…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 21, 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…
AAA CFP: Circulations, Logics, and Logistics of Food
We are looking for 1 more paper for the following session. Please send abstracts to Micah M. Trapp, mmtrapp@memphis.edu, by Tuesday Apr. 11th. Circulations, Logics, and Logistics of Food…
“Comparative Dynamics of Cooking Practices” – PhD opportunity in France
PhD. Student recruitment in social sciences – “Compared dynamics of cooking practices” Context Created in 2008, the Center for Food and Hospitality research at the Institut Paul Bocu…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 3, 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…
Applied Food and Nutrition Research, SfAA 2017
Amanda Green Davidson College The 2017 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting (March 28-April 1) in Santa Fe has shaped up to be an incredible showcase of food-related research. In…
EM Thoughts and Readings!
Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this year the Boston-based Roman Catholic Cardinal O’Malley gav…
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition! New Book Discount!
Edited by two former SAFN presidents and containing articles by many SAFN members, the new three volume set “Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition” is…
Panel Proposal, AAA 2017: Interdisciplinary Work in Food and Nutrition
This is an abstract for a panel for the AAA 2017 meetings in DC. Click here to see the CFP for the conference from SAFN and here for…
Food OpEd Fellowship opportunity in San Francisco
Received from Polly Adema, who is the Director of the Master of Arts in Food Studies Program at the University of the Pacific. Looks like a great opportunity…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, March 7, 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…
Graduate Journal of Food Studies Issue 5
Received from Emily Contois, this is both a great looking journal of interest to FoodAnthropology readers, but an opportunity for graduate students to publish. Check it out! We…
On Food and Labor, Briefly
David Beriss Andrew Puzder has decided to withdraw his name from consideration for Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration. As I pointed out a few weeks ago,…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, February 13, 2017
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
Fear, Fire, and Solidarity in New Orleans
David Beriss Someone tried to burn down the Flaming Torch restaurant last week. The restaurant, located in my neighborhood in New Orleans, is a French bistro that has…
AFHVS/ASFS Deadline Extension
A quick update! The deadline for submissions to the AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference has been extended to February 6, 2017, at 9pm PST. AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference, June 14-17,…
Assistant/Associate Professor Food Studies/Sociology
Assistant/Associate Professor Food Studies/Sociology The University of Southern Maine is seeking applicants for a two-year (the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years) non-tenure tra…