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> Subject: Registration now Open: Feast and Famine: Exploring
> Relationships with Food in the Pacific, UCL, 7th-8th September 2012
>
> Registration now Open
> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3868001296 (Please Register
> before 20th August, 2012)
>
> Feast and Famine: Exploring Relationships with Food in the Pacific
> UCL, 7th-8th September 2012
>
> Inaugral Pacific Islands Research Network Conference (UCL)
>
> Conference organisers: Sarah Byrne (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
> and Kaori O'Connor (Anthropology, UCL)
>
> Feasting is the most resonant and powerful of all social practices
> in the Pacific Island region. Now as in the past, feasts are at the
> centre of Pacific society, serving as the arenas for the display of
> hierarchy, status and power; the negotiation of loyalty and
> alliances; the enacting of competition; the creation and
> consolidation of identity and the performance of public rituals that
> link the social and the political, the sacred and the secular. Both
> feasts and famines represent a research theme where ecology and
> economy meet, and where patterns of provisioning and consumptions,
> and resultant health and environmental aspects, manifest themselves.
> This two day conference is organised by the newly established UCL
> Pacific Islands Research Networkresponds to the widening interest in
> the political, economic, cultural and health dimensions of feasting,
> food production and famine in the Pacific. This conference aims to
> provide a platform for more engaged dialogue between archaeology,
> anthropology, history, ecology, economics, epidemiology, health and
> medical studies, and food studies and the social and historical
> sciences more broadly.
> The conference will present vanguard work in anthropological,
> archaeological, historical, literary, environmental and medical
> research, and discuss how it can contribute to a better
> understanding of society, health and food security in the Pacific
> islands – past, present and future.
>
> This conference is kindly sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology,
> Department of Anthropology (UCL) and Mellon Foundation.
>
> For more details on conference programme and how to register please
> visit:http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3868001296
> Also see attached detailed conference programme.
>
> All the best
>
> Sarah and Kaori
>
>
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