International Conference on Japanese Studies
Consuming Japan: Society, Politics, Economy and Japanese Food
28-29 January 2011
Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
Although Japanese food is popular in the world today, scholarly explorations of this social and cultural phenomenon has not been established in the context of Asia. A two-day conference, organized by the Japanese Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University, would like to deal with this popular but not fully explored topic of Japanese food. The field of food studies is huge and there exists a wide range of approaches to the research of food. The conference particularly focuses on empirical studies on food and society within the Social Sciences. It seeks to promote the food studies among researchers and identify the possible research agenda relevant to Japanese studies. It also aims to to provide a lively forum for participants to meet and exchange ideas and information in an informal setting.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Food in History
Cultural Ecology of Food
Politics of Food
Food and identity
Representation of Food in Media
Food Consumption Trends and Society
Food Production in the Global Economy
Food and Health
Submission
Please send an abstract (300 – 500 words) to the conference organizer:
Dr. Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Co-convener, Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University
Deadline
Submission of abstracts November 17, 2010
We will inform papers who were accepted, sometime in mid-December 2010.
