Conference Dates - November 7th to 10th 2024

Location - Palm Springs, California U.S.A.

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

Conference organizers - Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association

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. 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 some of the following: food and aesthetics; food, culture, and religion; historical treatment of food and drink; food and identity; and food and popular culture. We especially encourage papers that address some facet of the conference theme “Translation in Action.” 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 

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 following link below. You'll also find the main website for the conference below. All proposals will receive a reply. Thank you in advance.  

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

*Visit the conference webpage - https://www.pamla.org/pamla2024/ 

Deadline for consideration - May 1st 2024