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December 10, 2008
CfP: Food, culture and health: Interdisciplinary encounters, 06/04-05/2009, Tarragona, Spain
Deadline: January 15, 2009
9th International REDAM Symposium Food, culture and health: Interdisciplinary encounters
Food and dietary practices are part of wider historical processes, and for this reason the study of food production and consumption requires an interdisciplinary approach that takes into account not only cultural knowledge but forms of social inequality, and the economic and political implications of food not only for society but for human health and the environment as well. Food production, distribution and consumption involves numerous agents and contexts ranging from agricultural activities to food processing, from the restaurant or school dining hall to the home, from the individual to the social group. These social actors and sites are, for their part, also involved in processes of health, illness, and care. Despite apparent abundance, the current food production system does not ensure that people’s basic nutritional requirements are met or that food is evenly shared. On another level, it undermines confidence in the quality and safety of the food produced, and poses obstacles to the legitimate and human desire to preserve and improve the quality of life.
The study of human diet has been approached from a wide variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Understanding dietary practices and the issues affecting them requires bringing together diverse areas of knowledge because food consumption has biopsychosocial, political, economic and ecological dimensions and repercussions. Behind the decision to focus the 9th International REDAM symposium on the relation between health, food and culture lies the conviction that this symposium should generate fruitful interdisciplinary discussion and critical reflection on how dietary behaviour and public health are influenced by lifestyles which are in turn conditioned by economic, political and cultural factors. CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for papers must be submitted through the Symposium’s webpage,
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for papers must be submitted through the Symposium’s webpage, The proposal should include the title of the paper, a 250-word abstract, and 5 key words. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15, 2009. The full text of the papers will be posted on the symposium’s webpage between February 16 and May 11, 2009. Papers must be no longer than 35,000 characters including footnotes and bibliography (approximately 15 pages of A4). Citations should follow the Harvard system (year, page number).
Online registration is required for all participants in the 9th International REDAM Symposium, regardless of whether they are presenting a paper.
Mabel Gracia
Departament d'Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
Av. Catalunya 35
43002 Tarragona
+34977559748
Fax: +34977559597
Email: mabel.gracia@urv.cat
Visit the website at http://antropologia.urv.es/9coloquio
Structure of the Symposium
1. Keynote address
2. Thematic areas
• Socialization and dietary education
• Dietary insecurity and social inequality
• Eating in times of “crisis”
• Dietary globalization, markets, diets
• Migrations and dietary change in intercultural contexts
• Medicalization of diet
• “Epidemics” in the new millennium: obesity and eating disorders
• History, nutrition and dietary politics in health
• Dieting: prescribers, prescriptions and prescribed medications
• Diet, body and gender
• Knowledge, representations and dietary practices
3. Closing session
The working sessions are one and a half hours long, involving three or four paper presentations during the first hour followed by half an hour of discussion. This schedule can accommodate between 18 and 24 papers. Depending on the number of submissions, two further sessions may be added (allowing a maximum of eight more papers). The sessions will not take place simultaneously. The organizers may modify the final structure of the symposium according to the paper proposals received.
Registration fees
Standard registration fee: 130€
Reduced registration fees for the following:
Members of the Spanish Neuropsychiatric Association (AEN), the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN), and associations affiliated with the Federation of Anthropological Associations of the Spanish State (FAAEE): 70€
Rovira i Virgili University (URV) students, members of the Tarragona Institute of Anthropology and the Medical Anthropology Network (REDAM) who are not presenting a paper: 30€
Students enrolled in the URV Master’s Program in Medical Anthropology and International Health and speakers from the Health Observatory (ODELA): free
Maximum number of participants: 70
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