The interdisciplinary character of food studies has not only connected distinct theories and practices, but also has provided us with tools to rethink on existence. Food studies have become increasingly sophisticated when it is thought and studied in various disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, history, literary theory, media and communication studies, political science, and psychology. Our ultimate aim in this workshop is to investigate the deeper theoretical underpinnings of the connections between ontology and epistemology, nature and culture, material and symbolic, personal and political, self and other, fear and joy, anxiety and pleasure, experience and meaning, representation and performance, and senses, aesthetics and ethics. Therefore, papers attempt to discuss theoretical questions concerning food and taste, cooking and eating. In other words, the workshop tries to articulate food issues with either a particular theory and/or theorist(s) or a general philosophical theme suggested below.
Suggested Conference Themes:
Epistemology of food
Aesthetics and philosophy of food
Ethical issues around food
Food, semiotics and taboos
Marxism
Frankfurt School
British Cultural Studies
Chicago School
Structuralism
Poststructuralism
Functionalism
Psychoanalysis
Historiography
Phenomenology
Theories of nationalism
Feminism
Conspiracy Theory
Organizing Committee:
Ayşegül Baykan (Yildiz Technical University)
Defne Karaosmanoğlu (Kadir Has University)
İrem İnceoğlu (Kadir Has University)
Kerem Karaosmanoğlu (Yildiz Technical University)
Sait Özervarlı (Yildiz Technical University)
Scientific Committee:
Ayşegül Baykan (Yildiz Technical University)
Birgit Krawietz (Freie Universitaet)
Brigida Marovelli (Trinity College, Dublin)
Burak Özçetin (Kadir Has University)
Defne Karaosmanoğlu (Kadir Has University)
Elif Akçalı (Kadir Has University)
Eleni Varmazi (Bahçeşehir University)
İlkay Kanık (Beykent University)
İrem İnceoğlu (Kadir Has University)
Kerem Karaosmanoğlu (Yildiz Technical University)
Konstantinos Gogos (University of Athens)
Mark Lewis Soileav (Hacettepe University)
Sait Özervarlı (Yildiz Technical University)
Setenay Nil Doğan (Yildiz Technical University)
Teyfur Erdoğdu (Yildiz Technical University)
Yusuf Öz (Yildiz Technical University)