[Bilimsel Haber] Travel, Travel Writing and Food

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Travel, Travel Writing and Food Colloquium

Trinity College, Oxford, UK
Saturday, 1st April 2006

The fourth colloquium on Travel and Travel Writing will take food as its 
theme.


We invite papers across the fields of the humanities and social sciences 
which
will engage with the following topics:

How do travel writers negotiate food as a crucial and intimate sign of 
social
and cultural difference?

How has food been represented historically and in the contemporary world in
terms of sensuous pleasure?

How has food been understood in terms of 'civilised' and 'savage' 
societies and
the exotic?

To what extent does the etiquette of dining act as a prime theme within 
travel
texts?

In what ways is writing about food a commentary on class difference and also
shaped by class?

How do travel writers understand the local's revenge through food 
(Montezuma's
revenge, Delhi belly)?

Travel writing and medical discourse about the 'healthy' body The moral
consequences of particular diets (vegetarianism, meat-eating)

How does the body of the writer enter travel accounts?


Please submit your abstracts (500 words) to Prof John Eade at
J.Eade@surrey.ac.uk by 15th February 2006.

For registration enquiries, please contact
Mirela Dumic
Centre Administrator
Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
School of Arts, Communication and Humanities
08 AP 02
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH

Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 682365
Email: m.dumic@surrey.ac.uk


Visit the website at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEMs