[Bilimsel Haber] Rönesans'tan 21. yüzyila tarihte, toplumda, ekonomide, kültürde patates

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	*The Potato - From the Renaissance to the 21st century: History,
Society, Economics, Culture.*
*Location:* 	France
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Within the framework of the project to list culinary and gastronomic
heritage with UNESCO's intangible heritage, CeHVi and IEHCA are
organising a major international conference on the Potato in Tours in
2009, which also corresponds to France's hosting of the World Potato
Congress.

A seemingly commonplace vegetable, in that it is so embedded into our
customs, the potato is however a product whose appearance on the plate
of Westerners is only relatively recent, in the 18th century, and is
still unknown in whole regions of the globe.

This international conference is aiming to cover all of the themes that
have anything to do with the potato and there are no limits, not only
from a historical standpoint, but also from standpoints of an economic
and geographical, artistic and sociologic, scientific and medical
nature. It is not limited to the contemporary period, and it is not
restricted to France; this conference wants to attempt to provide an
overall view of the place held by the potato across civilisations. For
this, communications materials could cover subjects as diverse as the
technical aspects, whether concerning production or transformation, the
economics of the sector, consumption, imaginary forms, and treatment of
this tuber in the arts.

	J.-P. Williot; M. de Ferrière le Vayer
CeHVi
François Rabelais University,
3, rue des Tanneurs,
BP 4103
F- 37041 Tours cedex 1

Email: potato-colloquium at univ-tours.fr
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