5th SYMPOSIUM OF GREEK GASTRONOMY
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
May 2022
Online
The 5th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy will take a fresh look at the intersection of food and the senses. It will approach the many topics related to them by means of oral presentations, workshops, performances, story-telling, singing, cooking etc.
We are inviting proposals from the fields of archaeology, history, anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cross-cultural sciences, gastronomy, geography, neurobiology, art, design and literature.
We particularly encourage interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research!
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Sensory aspects of food and gender
Food’s sensory qualities and social class
Food’s sensory qualities and ethnicity
Τaste as a social sense
Food, senses and identity
Food- sensory memory
Food and sensory ethnography
Food, place and the taste of home
Taste, smell: pleasure/ disgust, pure/impure
Food and sensory storytelling
Senses and the interactions between humans, food and environment.
Emotions surrounding food
Neurogastronomy
Food as performance art
Making sense of multisensory food
Culinary heritage, produits de terroir, senses and emotions
Taste as experience
Sensory marketing and tourist culinary experience
Gastronomic tourism and visitors’ senses and emotions.
Gastronomical virtual reality
Sensory science and the food industry
Multi-sensory food design
Abstract Details & Deadlines
- Proposals should be submitted by 20 February 2022 to mkavroulakis@gmail.com , and must include an abstract (no more than 300 words) and a biographical statement (100 words).
- In the e-mail subject please write “Symposium 2022”.
- Acknowledgement of receipt will be sent within 3 days.
- Results of the abstract review notified to authors, artists and cooks: Usually within 3 weeks of submission.
- The abstract must first pass a blind peer review and if accepted by the reviewer, we will send you the acceptance notification.
- If the paper is required to be revised, the revised paper is needed to be sent back within a week.
- Please download the Abstract Template . You are requested to follow the format carefully for your abstract submission.
Presentations
Presentations will be 15 minutes long.
Both graduate and postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to attend the symposium and present their work in the form of a poster.
The symposium languages are Greek and English.
The 5th Symposium was intended to take place outdoors close to nature without microphones and PowerPoint presentations, however the coronavirus pandemic led us to migrate it online. Of course, you can always reimagine the concept of your presentation and push its boundaries to create immersive moments.
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