Food, Drink and Hospitality: Space, Materiality, Practice 
Autor: Graça Brightwell | Publicado: 2013-04-18T08:27:00-07:00




The event will take place on Friday the 14th of June at the British Sociological Association's London Meeting Room.&nbsp;
The event is being organised in association with Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University, the British Sociological Association's Food Study Group and the Hospitality &amp; Society journal.&nbsp;

Further details about the venue, the cost and booking arrangements can be found at the end of the post.



Programme&nbsp;

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&nbsp;

11.00 Break&nbsp;&nbsp;

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&nbsp;

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:&nbsp;Suite 2, 2 Station Court, Imperial Wharf, Townmead Road, Fulham, SW6 2PY

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25083/BSA_Imperial_Wharf_directions041209.pdf

Cost (including lunch and refreshments):&nbsp;£45 (£35 for students and BSA members)



Booking:&nbsp;http://shop.brookes.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&amp;modid=2&amp;prodid=81&amp;deptid=27&amp;catid=34&nbsp;(Places are limited and you are advised to book as soon as possible.&nbsp;The deadline for booking for&nbsp;a place is the 7th of June)

Online version of the programme:http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/51781/Food_Programme_030413.pdf&nbsp;