Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Session Overview - This Food Studies session aims to bring together a range of perspectives for the sake of examining the roles of food in literary and media texts. In particular, we seek abstracts that speak to the following questions: What roles do food and food studies play in our analyses of culture, literature, and media? How does food experience shape our creative expression and daily lives? How do food and drink venues contribute to the mise-en-scène of a literary or cinematic work? How does food, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations, democratize, hierarchize, ennoble, or degrade literary characters and social classes? Topics of special interest in this Food Studies session include the following: food and aesthetics; food, culture, and religion; historical treatment of food and drink; food and identity; and food and popular culture. We also especially encourage presentations that address some facet of the conference theme of Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion. At the same time, we welcome a broad range of proposals for this panel. If there are questions, please feel free to reach out by emailing Dr. Edward Chamberlain at - ec10@uw.edu. 

*Deadline for consideration - Thursday May 15th 2025

*Submit your abstract & proposal at this link - https://pamla.ballastacademic.com

*Visit the conference webpage for more info - https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/ 

Please Note - This conference will be a fully in-person meeting, and thus no online sessions will be possible. To submit your proposal, please upload your abstract and contact information to the submission site, which can be found at the link above. You'll be asked to submit a short abstract of 50 words and a proposal of 250 to 300 words. All proposals will receive a reply. Thank you in advance, and we hope to see you at the conference in San Francisco.