[Bilimsel Haber] Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity

"Food and eating practices are at the centre of the new concern in western
societies about the body, self-control, health, risk, consumption and 
identity"
(Deborah Lupton). This international, interdisciplinary conference seeks to
explore these issues in original ways and in historical perspective through
plenary and parallel sessions. It brings together methodologies drawn 
from the
humanities and the medical sciences to interpret ad challenge current myths
about the history, production and consumption of food and to explore the 
roles
of taste, texture, and technology in constituting identities and marketing
experiences in this sphere. Within this framework a strand dealing with the
relationships between tourism, food and history will run through the 
conference,
under the auspices of the International Commission for the History of 
Travel and
Tourism.

Liz Kelly
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Telephone +44 (0)1772 893809
U.K.

Fax +44 (0)1772 892995
Email: ejkelly@uclan.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.uclan.ac.uk/food