Devouring Men: Food, Masculinity & Power
School of English, University of St Andrews
24-25 July 2020
Deadline: 1 February 2020
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr Emma Bond (Modern Languages, University of St Andrews)
Dr Sam Goodman (English & Communication, University of Bournemouth)
Dr Jeffery Stevenson Murer (International Relations, University of St Andrews)
Devouring Men: Food, Masculinity and Power is a two-day interdisciplinary conference that examines masculinity and power through the lens of food. We hope to bring together academics, early-career and postgraduate researchers whose work addresses the, sometimes latent, sometimes overt, but always engaging intersections and connections between food, gender and/or power structures. It will also facilitate a discussion on cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to food studies.
We encourage a wide interpretation of the conference title and its themes. Topics of interests may include, but are not limited to:
- Food, desire and sexuality
- Food and the politics of representation
- Food, nostalgia and memory
- Food, nation and empire
- Food, power and bodies
- Food, animal/human rights and ethics
- Food and the politics of space
- Food, male health and/or medicine
- Food, class and/or commodification
- Food, masculinity and the classical/ post-classical world
- Food, masculinity and science/technology
- Food, masculinity and the ‘future’
Please send abstracts of <300 words for 15 minute panel presentations, with a short biography and specification of audiovisual needs, to organisers Sohni Chakrabarti and Siobhan Dooley at foodconf@standrews.ac.uk.
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2020.
We expect to publish an edited volume from revised conference papers.
For any enquiries regarding the conference itself, please contact foodconf@st-andrews.ac.uk