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Dear all:
The SOAS Food Studies Centre is now up and running. Details of its objectives appear below. Members will be kept informed of Food-related
teaching, research, and events in the school and beyond via a Centre listserv. Should you wish to join the Centre, please send me an email to
that effect. A separate list will inform subscribers of SOAS Food Forum events only; let me know if you wish to be subscribed to this list
instead.
On behalf of the Advisory Committee, we look forward to working with you.
Harry West
Chair, SOAS Food Studies Centre
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The SOAS Food Studies Centre seeks to promote research and teaching in the field of Food Studies at SOAS, and to foster and facilitate links between SOAS and other individuals and institutions with an academic interest in Food Studies. (By Food Studies, it is meant the study of political, economic, and cultural dimensions of food, historically and in the contemporary moment, from production, to exchange, to preparation, to consumption.) To these ends, the Centre will:
gather and disseminate information about food related teaching and research interests among SOAS staff and students;
foster the teaching of food related courses in the school;
facilitate the supervision of food related dissertations and theses in the school;
organise public lectures and a seminar series on food related topics under the rubric of the SOAS Food Forum;
organise and host national and international workshops and conferences on food related issues;
foster and facilitate individual and collaborative research on food related issues among SOAS staff and students;
develop worldwide contacts with organisations and institutions dedicated to the study of food;
and raise funds, and assist Centre members in raising funds, for the above purposes.
The Centre is located in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Membership of the Centre is open to all academic staff at SOAS. Associate Membership is open to students at SOAS with an academic interest in Food Studies as well as to individuals outside the School who share an academic interest in Food Studies, subject to the approval of the Centre Chair.
Harry G. West
Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Direct line: +44 (0)20 7898 4414
Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4699
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