Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Ninth International Conference on Food Studies.
Countries represented.
Modern science-based epistemologies have influenced social consuming behaviors. They have also shaped social aesthetics, beliefs and cultures. Nevertheless, food knowledges are often connected to land, hand-made crafts, family, or nationally inherited culinary histories and authenticities. Thus, there is a constant tension between science and tradition: “scientism” against nature, embodied in food products, processes and systems.
Do we need to resist “scientification” as if it is “new?” Do science-based approaches make us vulnerable to emerging food scares? Are science-based foods symbols, like Frankenstein’s immoral creature, of our distance from the authenticity of food systems? Are science-based epistemologies inherently oppositional to the agenda of food sovereignty?
Or, are we always on a non-returnable path of “scientification?” If so, can “science” symbolize positive pathways of social transformations: supporting human welfare, futures of convenience, hygienic and healthy living, and environmental sustainability?
Do we need to consider a new way of thinking of food-sovereignty that is not oppositional to science-based epistemologies? Can “culinary science” be a conceptual vehicle to how the human avoids being enslaved by “science,” to further establish a science-governed sovereignty?
President, Professor, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Dean of School of Culinary Arts, Professor, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Taiwan
From Food Culture, Culinary Science, Food Innovation to Gastronomy Tourism
Professor and Researcher, Basque Culinary Center, University of Mondragón, Spain, and manager, Food Industry Program, Bachelor Degree of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts and, Program Director, Master (MSc) in Gastronomic Sciences
Culinary Science: An Interesting Way to Face the Future of Food
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2019 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Urban Planning and Regional Development, Laval University, University in Canada, Canada
Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
School of Food Science and Environmental Health, Technological University of Dublin, Ireland
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
Bulacan State University, Philippines
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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