The event will take place on Friday the 14th of June at the British Sociological Association's London Meeting Room.
The event is being organised in association with Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University, the British Sociological Association's Food Study Group and the Hospitality & Society journal.
Further details about the venue, the cost and booking arrangements can be found at the end of the post.
09.15 Arrival and refreshments
09.45 Welcome (Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
10.00 Session 1
Tastes of the ‘mongrel’ city: Geographies of memory, spice, hospitality and forgiveness
Jean Duruz
Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Australia
The smell of hospitality: A phenomenological analysis of gjellëtore in Kosova
Arsim Canolli,
Department of Anthropology, University College of London, UK
11.00 Break
11.15 Session 2
“Luxurious simplicity”: Self-sufficient food practices and hospitality in Italian ecovillages
Alice Brombin
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Poverty entered our homes! Creating hospitable spaces and managing the current economic, social and political crisis in Greece
Vasiliki Kravva
Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Food, gender and refugee community moments
Hannah Lewis
School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Session 3
Practicing conviviality: Notes from the public spaces of ‘pay-what-you want’ restaurants
Regan Koch
Department of Geography, University College London, UK
Quantifying the organoleptic triangle: Inputs, outputs and user experience
Baudouin C. R. Neirynck and Mark A. M. Gibson
Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau SAR, PR of China
Extraordinary restaurants as sites of friendship
Andrea Tonner
Department of Marketing, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
15.15 Break
15.30 Session 4
Fierce Craic in Clapham – A sociological investigation
Marie Bune and Brendan Ruane
Faculty of Business, London South Bank University, UK
Postcard imagery – A twentieth century visual culinary and social history
Paul Cleave
Business School, University of Exeter, UK
A “Gift from God”? : Tradition and pragmatism in Georgian hospitality
Costanza Curro
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK
17.00 Closing comments and discussion
Participants are invited to drinks and an informal meal after the event, but the cost of these are not included in the event fee.
Venue address: Suite 2, 2 Station Court, Imperial Wharf, Townmead Road, Fulham, SW6 2PY
Cost (including lunch and refreshments): £45 (£35 for students and BSA members)
Booking: http://shop.brookes.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=81&deptid=27&catid=34 (Places are limited and you are advised to book as soon as possible. The deadline for booking for a place is the 7th of June)
Online version of the programme:http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/51781/Food_Programme_030413.pdf
