London, and Bloomsbury in particular, is a great place for professors to work, given the number of universities and forums to present research. Senate House, SOAS, UCL and the Warburg Institute all offer talks open to the public, or for research groups — many of which are free to join.
On Friday, our professor Dr Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic spoke on “embargo cakes” in 1990s Serbia. If you missed her talk, there are a few more this semester, see below for how to join the SOAS food studies centre (it’s free!)
The SOAS Food Studies Centre
SOAS Food Forum
Term 1, 2016-2017
Fridays 13:15-14:45
Room 4426, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
(No bookings taken)
14 October 2016
Sarah Howard, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College London:
‘The Politics of Coffee in Rural Ethiopia’
21 October 2016
Ken Kuroda, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics:
‘The “Tiffin” in Contemporary Mumbai: Technologies and Techniques of Purity’
28 October 2016
Professor Alan Warde, Professor of Sociology and Professorial Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester:
‘Theoretical Reflections on the Practice of Eating’
4 November 2016
Dr Estelle Fourat, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France):
‘Eating Categories, Eating in Categories, in Contemporary Indian Society’
11 November 2016
SOAS Reading Week – no seminar
18 November 2016
Dr Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic, Syracuse University London:
‘The “Embargo Cake” Strikes Back: Food Crisis and Creativity in 1990s Serbia’
25 November 2016
Katharina Graf, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS:
‘Sourcing Good Food in Marrakech’
2 December 2016
Dr Zofia Boni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Poznań (Poland):
‘“My mom feeds me, but really, I eat whatever I want”: Reflections on Feeding and Eating in Warsaw’
9 December 2016
Dr Rachel Rich, Senior Lecturer, School of Cultural Studies & Humanities, Leeds Beckett University:
‘Beyond Beeton: Victorian Cookbooks and the Rise of the Middle Class Housewife’
16 December 2016
Professor Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck; Professorial Research Associate, SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London:
‘The Lore of Tripe: Middle East and Beyond’
The SOAS Food Forum is open to any member or associate member of the Centre. Bookings are not taken. Joining the Centre as an associate member is free of charge, and includes subscription to the Centre email list on which Centre events and other items of interest to Centre members are announced. Requests for membership, including name, email address (to be used for Centre email subscription only), institutional affiliation (if any), and details of interest in Food Studies, should be sent to the Centre Chair, Dr Jakob Klein, at soasfoodstudies@soas.ac.uk.