Foodways and Identity: Conference on Food and Drink Traditions
4-8 December 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://islanddynamics.org/foodwaysconference.html

This international academic conference explores how traditions involving food and drink help shape and maintain cultural identity across the globe.

Everyone eats. Yet cultures around the world have developed strikingly different traditions surrounding food and drinks, ranging from customs concerning the slaughtering of animals to food preparation, snacks, meals, and toasts. Foodways may be localised, but they have also long been globalised, with ancient trading routes supplying vital and luxury ingredients and produce between far-flung destinations: Bronze Age salt roads, ancient intercontinental spice routes, and the Classical Mediterranean’s wine and garum trades all evidence the historical significance of food and drink for ancient economies and societies.

Eating and drinking customs continue to intermingle and influence one another to this day through the increased ease with which peoples and their foods and drinks can be transported across the globe. At the same time, however, people are still embracing elements of their traditional (or purportedly traditional) foodways as a means of reinforcing and sustaining cultural identities. In multicultural cities, this is true for both immigrant and native populations. It is thus that, for example, the immigration-driven flourishing of foreign foodways in Copenhagen has occurred alongside revitalised or possibly invented traditions of ultra-localism, most notably in the form of the so-called ‘New Nordic cuisine.

This conference will consider the ways in which food and drink traditions interact with one another and with the cultures among which they occur. Special emphasis will be placed on the role played by foodways in the maintenance and changing of identity.

About the conference: Foodways and Identity allows delegates to contextualise knowledge and engage with community members. On 4-6 December, delegates will explore Copenhagen’s foodways. We will speak with local producers, retailers, and restaurateurs, but we will also dive into the diversity of food and drink traditions across Copenhagen’s various neighbourhoods. Delegates will get a great taste of Copenhagen identity: traditional Danish restaurants, Arab markets, hip organic café culture, Eastern European immigrant fare, the high and low cultures of the ‘New Nordic cuisine’, old-fashioned Danish bars, outdoor Christmas markets, and much more. Delegates will also visit Tivoli Gardens, a historic amusement park that has developed into a key site for Danish identity building and cultural expression. Conference presentations take place on 7-8 December.

How to make a presentation: Presentations are welcome on all aspects of food and drink traditions from any cultures. The deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2017, but to take advantage of early registration rates and ensure that you have time to seek funding from your institution or government, we recommend that you submit your abstract early (http://islanddynamics.org/foodwaysconference/cfp.html).

Enquiries: آدرس ایمیل جهت جلوگیری از رباتهای هرزنامه محافظت شده اند، جهت مشاهده آنها شما نیاز به فعال ساختن جاوا اسكریپت دارید
Web address: http://www.islanddynamics.org/foodwaysconference.html
Sponsored by: Island Dynamics & VerdensKulturCentret (World Cultural Centre)

RDC 2017 - Rural Development Conference 2017
7-9 July 2017
Bangkok, Thailand

Enquiries: آدرس ایمیل جهت جلوگیری از رباتهای هرزنامه محافظت شده اند، جهت مشاهده آنها شما نیاز به فعال ساختن جاوا اسكریپت دارید
Web address: http://www.rdconference.org
Sponsored by: Tomorrow People Organization

Dear Scholars, Students, NGO and governmental representatives:

Rural Development Conference 2017 will focus on issues related to agricultural and rural development and will host distinguished delegates form over 60 countries worldwide, coming from academic, NGO, governmental and business realms.

RDC 2017 is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and others interested in rural development and agriculture.

More specifically, it targets:

Scholars: Share your research, learn some new approaches, hear about others' experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience.

Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices, rural and agricultural development strategies and systems around the world; network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the field of supporting rural development.

NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with others.

Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills.

Company representatives: This is a chance to improve your leadership skills, learn more about the importance of critical issues in achieving the high performances of your organization, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and establish new connections and partnerships.

Others: Anyone who is interested in making some positive changes around them and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to their own communities.

Rural Development Conference 2017 will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the fields rural development and agriculture and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals.

We welcome: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL presentations. Early submissions are strongly encouraged due to limited space in the venue, as applications are reviewed on a rolling admission basis - as long as space is available.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Research, Agricultural Risk Management, Agricultural Trade, Agriculture and Rural Development, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Community Based Rural Development, Economic and Social aspect of Rural Development, Economic Development, Employment in Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Food Production, Food Safety, Forests and Forestry, Gender and Rural Development, Irrigation and Drainage, Land Policy and Administration, Land and Food Security, Land Resources Management, Livestock and Animal Resources, Micro-finance for Rural Development, Organic Food Production, Poverty, Rural Education, Rural Finance, Rural Healthcare, Rural Livelihoods, Rural Policy, Rural Private Sector Development, Rural Transport, Rural Water Supply, Technology and Innovation, Sanitation and Hygiene, Sustainable Rural Development, Water Resources Management, Other topics related to rural and agricultural development.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in a dedicated ISBN publication of RDC 2017 Conference Proceedings.

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in July 2017, as one of our participants, coming from over 60 countries worldwide!

Sincerely,

RDC 2017 Organizing Committee
Email: آدرس ایمیل جهت جلوگیری از رباتهای هرزنامه محافظت شده اند، جهت مشاهده آنها شما نیاز به فعال ساختن جاوا اسكریپت دارید