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2nd Conference Announcement and Call for Papers - Extension to Deadline
Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 29 June 1 July 2006
We have received a lively and interesting response to the first announcement and call for papers for this conference, but the first deadline now seems to us to have been too early, so we have decided to extend the deadline to 10 January 2006.
'Food and eating practices are at the centre of the new concern in western societies about the body, self-control, health, risk, consumption and identity' (Deborah Lupton). This international, interdisciplinary conference, organised by the Faculty of Health and Department of Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire, seeks to explore these issues in original ways and in historical perspective through plenary and parallel sessions. It brings together methodologies drawn from the humanities and the medical sciences to interpret and challenge current myths about the history, production and consumption of! food and to explore the roles of taste, texture, and technology in constituting id entities and marketing experiences in this sphere. Within this framework a strand dealing with the relationships between tourism, food and history will run through the conference, under the auspices of the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism.
We invite papers which address physiological, psychological and political aspects of food, health, history, tourism and identity, as well as examining issues relating to food production, regulation and marketing, and analysing representations of and responses to food, health, history and tourism in cultural practices and media outlets, whether these focus on literature, film, television or the arts. Participants are encouraged to interpret these proposals generously and to adopt interdisciplinary approaches, as befits the traditions of this University of Central Lancashire conference series.
The language of the conference will be English.
Abstract guidelines
Abstracts of 2-300 words should be sent as e-mail attachments in the first instance to the conference administrator, Liz Kelly: [log in to unmask] The deadline for submissions is 10 January 2006
Intending participants should supply, on a separate page, author's name, work address with telephone, fax and e-mail, job title and abstract title.
Papers will be made available in advance on the conference website www.uclan.ac.uk/food and where appropriate on the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism website at www.ichtt.org
In order to facilitate this process participants are asked to send copies of their paper to the conference organiser at least two weeks in advance of the conference opening.
Who should attend
Participation and attendance are encouraged from academics and practitioners across a spectrum of disciplines, from the health professions through food, history and tourism studies to literary, cultural and media studies. Papers are welcomed from all strata of the academic profession, including postgraduates and research assistants, and plenary speakers will be of international standing.
Please note, all paper presenters will need to register for the conference and pay a discounted presenters fee for the day(s) they would like to attend.