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This email has been sent to members of the BSA Food Study Group/SCOFF. Please help to publicise the work of the study group by forwarding this email to other colleagues or networks who may be interested in research on the sociology of food production and consumption. If you would like us to send information about jobs, conferences, funding, research, papers and reviews of relevant meetings, reports, books/papers to members of the group then please email Julie Parsons [[log in to unmask]]. Links to relevant research can also be added to the study group website (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/Food.htm). Please also contact Julie with queries relating to membership. The food study group is a specialist study group of the British Sociological Association (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/). NON FSG NEWS: Annual Public Lecture - Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, IFSTAL (Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning) The annual IFSTAL public lecture will be taking place on Thursday 6th December at 6pm. This year it will be delivered by Judith Batchelar OBE, member of the government’s Food and Drink Sector Council, on the topic of Collaboration for Impact. The lecture will be held at the SOAS Brunei Gallery, and will be followed by a festive drinks reception. Professor Jeff Waage will chair the event and Q&A, and the lecture will be live-streamed to IFSTAL’s partners in Oxford, Reading and Warwick Universities. More information can be found here: https://www.ifstal.ac.uk/2018/11/16/public-lecture_2018/ Attendance is free but please book your place in advance. For details and registration, visit the Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ifstal-public-lecture-with-judith-batchelar-tickets-51717009969 **** FSG Conference 2019 Call for Abstracts - Sixth BSA Food Study Group Conference: Re-Imagining Food Systems, Sustainability, Futures and the Everyday. Monday 24th – Tuesday 25th June 2019, at Monash University, Prato, Italy. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Professor John Coveney and Professor Megan Warin. Abstract Submission Deadline: 1st March 2019 Online abstract submission at: https://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/abstract/Abstracts.aspx **** BSA Food Study Group Convenors: Julie Parsons [log in to unmask] Andrea Tonner [log in to unmask] Twitter: @BSA_Food Please note attachments cannot be circulated to members via this newsletter, so do include functional web links for your items. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FOOD-STUDY-GROUP list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=FOOD-STUDY-GROUP&A=1