Southern Cross University’s School of Tourism & Hospitality Management, in conjunction with the School of Arts & Social Sciences and Le Cordon Bleu Australia, is pleased to announce the 3rd Regional Food Cultures and Networks Conference. SCU is a leader in regional food research and networking through its Regional Food Network, and offers the Le Cordon Bleu Master of Gastronomic Tourism. The conference will take place from 29th – 31st October 2013, in Daylesford, regional Victoria, Australia (90 minutes from Melbourne). The program will consist of oral presentation sessions, based on submitted abstracts, as well as plenary sessions and workshops. The event will also feature pre-conference fieldtrips and an offsite social dinner which will feature some of the best regional food in the Daylesford area. Details of the conference are located at our updated conference website: scu.edu.au/regionalfoodconference. We are also delighted to announce two keynote addresses by Professor C. Michael Hall (Professor of Marketing, University of Canterbury, NZ) and Alla Wolf-Tasker AM (Executive Chef and Co-Owner of the renowned Lake House Restaurant, Daylesford). Building on the success of the inaugural conference held at Kingscliff, New South Wales (2011) and the second conference in the Barossa Valley, South Australia (2012) this, the 3rd conference, is again focused upon creating discussions between those who research and those who produce and consume and developing insights into both ‘local’ and ‘global’ as contested spaces. Food and drink take on different cultural significance the further societies move beyond their capacity to provide the basic necessities of life. Often new ‘cultures’ emerge from local and regional networks –of people: innovators, pioneers, producers and consumers; and of places/products: high quality, minimally processed, regionally defined and wonderful to eat! Planning wisely for the future is a fundamental principle, because aiming to increase both the pleasures of human kind and to improve the lives of others is central to the long term goal of ‘good eating.’ A groundswell of activity in sustainable regional food and drink production now gives reason to believe that food networks will drive what, on the surface at least, is positive cultural change into the future. At the same time, bureaucracies, industrial-scale food producers and needless to say, ‘economic incentives’, often support food policies that primarily serve material rather than social interests. This approach can have wide-reaching and negative effects on health and well-being, whole communities and the environment. As such, this conference represents a multidisciplinary space where we welcome abstracts for presentations from a variety of perspectives - topics might include, but are not limited to:- · regional food and sustainable foodways · the role of ‘local’ food in hospitable encounters · food as a leisure experience · wine and food tourism · food and regional development · the political economy of regional food · public health and food policy · food writing and cookbooks · slow food and slow tourism · the history of food · food security · gender and food · critical methodologies and the study of food/ways · food as social entrepreneurship · food and wine tourism destination development · the aesthetics of food · special events (food and wine) · marketing food experience(s) The Scientific Committee now invites researchers, academics and presenters from universities, food/tourism businesses & producers and other ‘foodies’ to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to [email protected] by 19 July 2013. Abstracts should include a title, names of author/presenter(s), and affiliation(s). Abstracts will then be reviewed by the Scientific Committee, and authors notified of their acceptance at the Conference by 16 August. We are also pleased to announce an extension to our Call for Session Proposals. In order to democratise the conference and to develop synergies across presentations the conference organising committee also invites proposals on the above topics from anyone who is interested in convening and chairing a themed session/s at the conference. Proposals should include a title for the session/s, identify the number of sessions being proposed, and describe the theme of the session/s and its rationale in no more than 350 words. A maximum of two sessions will be available to each theme and each session should consist of four papers. The responsibilities of themed session/s conveners include populating their session/s through a call for abstracts, ensuring the quality of submitted abstracts, and forwarding completed session details to the conference organising committee (in line with the call for abstracts deadlines above). Proposals have been extended until 1 July 2013 and should be forwarded to David Scott [email protected]. Invited presenters will be asked to submit full papers for submission in Locale: The Australasian-Pacific Journal of Regional Food Studies localejournal.org/ Conference Convenor: Dr Erica Wilson & Scientific Committee Chair: David Scott (Southern Cross University)
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:53:08 +0000