Friday 9 March 2012, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, 9.30 – 17.00
Jim and Jayne Turner at the kitchen table eating dinner with their pet cat ‘Chang’, Pinner, Middlesex, 1962-63 ©The Geffrye Museum of the Home
In association with the Wellcome Library, the Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network will be holding its 4thannual conference on the theme of food within the domestic setting in the UK.
Papers will explore the changing feelings and meanings attached to kitchens; gender and identity issues around cooking, feeding and kitchens; the transmission of culinary knowledge; patterns of food consumption at home as well as the impact of design and new technologies on the use of virtual and real foodspaces. There will also be a presentation on interpreting food preparation spaces and food consumption within a historic house setting.
The conference programme reflects the interdisciplinary approach of the Histories of Home SSN and will draw on social geography, food history, sociology, social gerontology, design, digital and social anthropology as well as artistic and museum practice.
The conference programme reflects the interdisciplinary approach of the Histories of Home SSN and will draw on social geography, food history, sociology, social gerontology, design, digital and social anthropology as well as artistic and museum practice.
Keynote
Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield): Anxious appetites: researching families and food
Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield): Anxious appetites: researching families and food
Speakers
Ines Amado (De Montfort University): Story-telling, exchange and observations of the everydayStephanie Baum (Institute of Education): An analysis of cooking from the perspective of hegemonic masculinity in transformation
Maria das Graças Brightwell (Royal Holloway, University of London): Food consumption and the practice of everyday life in two Brazilian mixed households in Harlesden, London
Manpreet K. Janeja (University of Cambridge):Feeding and eating ‘proper meals’ at home and beyond
Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University): Margarine, social class and the home: exploring the ‘margarine mind’ in rationed Britain
Angela Meah (University of Sheffield): “Of course I know that; you told me that years ago”: the acquisition of culinary knowledge in British families
Anne Murcott (SOAS & University of Nottingham): A century of English cookery books: examining what they can reveal about trends in food preparation, recipes and eating at home
Lida Papamatthaiaki (UCL): Digital symposiakotita @ new foodspaces
Sheila Peace (Open University): Continuity and change: aspects of the food environment across the life course
Sara Pennell (University of Roehampton) & Victoria Bradley (Ham House, National Trust): Foodways in the heritage house
Rachel Scicluna (Open University): Is the kitchen as ‘hub of the household’ a myth? Or is it the hub of politics and social change?
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