- October 27, 2016
Please join us for the Montreal launch of Conversations in Food Studies.
When: Thursday, October 27, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Henry Hall Building, H-1271, Concordia University (Montreal).
Cost: FREE
Featuring David Szanto, Alan Nash, Anaïs Detolle, and Robert Jennings. Light refreshments provided.
About the Book
Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practices underlying some of the most important issues facing the emerging field of food studies today.
Conversations in Food Studies brings to the table thirteen original contributions organized around the themes of representation, governance, disciplinary boundaries, and, finally, learning through food.
This collection offers an important and groundbreaking approach to food studies as it examines and reworks the boundaries that have traditionally structured the academy and that underlie much of food studies literature.
About the Authors
David Szanto is a researcher, artist, and teacher, taking an experimental approach to gastronomy through design, ecology, and performance. Past projects include meal events representing the urban foodscapes of Berlin and Montreal, the immersive sensory environment, Displace (Mediations of Sensation), and Orchestrer la perte/Perpetual Demotion, a food-and-robotics installation at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Having previously taught at Concordia University and l’Université du Québec à Montréal, he is currently professor-at-large with the University of Gastronomic Sciences’s Eco-Gastronomy Project. David has served two terms as vice president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies and is an associate editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation.
